Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent DreamDoubleday, Page, 1907 - 124 páginas |
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ain't Alderman Arethusa aromatic asked Alice asked the Hatter beautiful Beersheba Bloomingdale Bonds Burbank car ahead caramels cent Cheshire Cat child cipaphone circular car City cologne Commissioner Common Council convenient gas tank Copperation crack a filbert cried Alice dear Dipsomaniac Dormouse Duchess everything GAS PLANT grab Haberdasher Hatter to crack hot air idea laughed the Hatter Limericks Livingston Smythe March Hare matter of perfume Mayor Miss Alice mother motorman Muni MUNICIPAL CHEWERY Municipal Control Municipal Ownership MUNICIPAL TOOTHERY Municipaphone Nancy P. D. Q. O'Flaherty official old system once ossifer Ownership of Children Ownership of Teeth poetry poets Police polite private ownership Public Ownership PUBLIC VERSE replied the Hatter REQUESTED THE HATTER retorted returned the Hatter rhymes Simpkins sleeper in town STEP LIVELY street subliminate tell thing think nobody's looking WACKS whispered the March White Knight interfered Wiggins wonderful
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Página 8 - If there are some of you who like the corporations roasted, the forepoing will suffice, I hope, with the following additional stanzas which I will recite, following the elocutionary precedent set by some of our brothers: "A copperation is a beast With forty-leven paws That doesn't ever pay the least Attention to the laws. "It grabs whatever comes in sight, From hansom cabs to socks, And with a grin of mad delight It turns 'em into stocks. "And then it takes a rubber hose Connected with the sea And...
Página 17 - I should love to go and see your city," said Alice, who, though not quite convinced as to the desirability of the Municipal Ownership of Teeth, was nevertheless very much interested. "Very well,
Página 10 - I'm driving at. I don't mind telling you though, Alice, that outside of poetry a Copperation is a Creature devised by Selfish Interests to secure the Free Coinage of the Atlantic Ocean.
Página 112 - Palaverer!" said the Duchess coyly. "Not at all," said the Hatter. "I speak not as a man, but as a Mayor, and what I say is to be construed as an official tribute to a faithful and deserving public servant." "Servant, sir?" repeated the Duchess haughtily. "In the American sense," said the Hatter with a low bow. "In the sense that the servant is as good as, if not better than the employer, Madam.
Página 7 - Yep," said the March Hare. "It's called Blunderland and between you and me I don't believe anybody but the Hatter could have invented one like it. His geegantic brain conceived the whole thing, and I tell you it's a corker.
Página 11 - You aren't going to do this yourself, are you? Single handed and alone?" "Yes," said the Hatter. "The March Hare and the White Knight and I. We've started a city to do it with. We've sprinkled our streets with Rough on Copperations until there isn't one left in the place. Everything in town belongs to the People — street cars, gutters, pavements, theatres, electric light, cabs, manicures, dogs, cats, canary birds, hotels, barber shops, candy stores, hats, THE MUNICIPAL CHEWERY umbrellas, bakeries,...
Página 120 - Now, my little dear," said the Duchess, " we'll take you home." Seizing Alice by the hand the Duchess led the little traveller into the Municipal Nursery. Entering the elevator, they went up and up and up and up until Alice thought they would never stop. Finally on the 1 1 7th floor the elevator stopped. Alice and the Duchess alighted and entered a funny little flat, singularly enough labelled with Alice's own name. " This is it,
Página 106 - and poetry is truth just as art is truth, and if you don't believe it all you've got to do is to try and run against me next fall on that issue. I'll beat you to a stand-still.
Página 6 - Well, I'm awfully glad to see you," said Alice. " I've been so THE MARCH HARE lonesome "We know that," said the White Knight. "We've been studying your case lately and we thought we'd come down and see what we could do for you. The fact is the Hatter here has founded a model city, where everything goes just right, and we came to ask you to pay us a call.
Página 18 - Alice, glancing through the window, caught sight of a very beautiful train standing before the veranda, and in a moment she found herself stepping on board with her friends, while a softspoken guard at the door was handing her an engraved card upon a silver salver " Respectfully Inviting Miss Alice to Step Lively There.