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Alice in Prague or The Curious Room-2

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        tains, oo pour a veritable torrent t quickly forms into dark, viscous, livid puddles on the floor.

        But, before you accuse t.

        Delicious!

        For ticky puddles of fresra, red. . . t of summer pudding, even tside, on toill creaks out his melancholy call:

        "Poor toms a-cold!"

        And it is mider.

        Nig, an old ing against t    h lamps and dles.

        bato tory, Ned Kelly found t Dr Dee o sleep as ten did nooal ball o lap as ed at t rolled again off o t latle calico cat disabled it at once    bloo play , batting it t ered the coup de grace.

        ity sigoday    barren of iion. ed ironically t, if just so mucime, ster into tory, t    it.

        Not, Kelly kne sug ossible.

        If you could see inside Kellys brain, you ing mae.

        idohe windows black.

        t o made a noise like s? Kelly turo look. t, ensity t its prickled ears met at tips, sometal ball, so t at first it looked as if tear.

        But look again.

        Kelly looked again and began to sob and gibber.

        t rose up and backed aion, s bristling tail stuck straigiff as a broom oo scared to permit even ttack upon ture, about ttle fi popped out of tal ball as if the ball had been a bubble.

        But its passage    cracked or fissured t is still ly after ture of tesimal oally strety limbs to test t of the new invisible circumference around her.

        Kelly stammered: "t be some rational explanation!"

        Altoo small for o see teetill ransparend notc stage of t; raig in a stern fringe; s uprig    disapproval.

        t, coatically, noity of elixir vitae ran a tor    astoniso see her.

        a.

        there?

        Selpiece of tting room of t il it clouded over and ter a brief moments fusing fis, gloomy ced by five dles in one brancid filled ter ied by t cat extended ready to strike,    approac! s out of "time ; into "time ;, for transparent substander a e beard and a man tle on his head.

        no sound came out; s o a tantrum a or, ime past, raised c il, , sed on to t of it a strawberry.

        ted tra    large, t, tur round and round, and t otle bite out of it, leaving beiny ring of eet.

        At t bite, stle.

        Kelly tio mumble: "t be some rational explanation."

        took a sed, less tentative bite, and gretle more. te nigo mutter among themselves.

        Reassured at last, sra sly against ters, out of tick so t see    a gigantic tear splasallic g upon Ned Kellys , tor, o ru Ark, pressed a pae into , sil soon so sit     e as ice-cream and as long as Sunday.

        But she had no wings.

        Kelly, t be a rational explanation but    think of one.

        S last.

        "tell me," s;to ts to give a very small dinner party, and invites s."1

        At t, looked as if it ed on gauze, like a trical effect, and mig lig. Dr Dee stroked ively. o many questions, or knearre -- didnt a piece of it lie beside tuffed dodo? to impregs masity to ts name, ask erica, migo t ainable, surely, termediary of the angels, if only one scried long enough.

        ruly believed t not is w makes him modern.

        But, to tion, he    imagine no answer.

        Kelly, forced against ure to suspect t roy ricks, is sunk in introspe, and    even heard her.

        o t    be made out of diaries,    only be real ificial and Dr Dee    a member of tlig uy, before e or long, directed a famous produ of Aristop trinity College, in o make deliveries, on t beetle.

        Arcas made a flying dove of    Nuremberg, acc to Boterus, a structed bot to flutter and flap across ory, to tonis of all. In olden times, tatues t Daedalus built raised to tion of s of mercury. Albertus Magnus, t Sage, cast a    spoke.

        Are te or not, t jerk and so sucures believe to be     migue of tensity of their belief, bee so?

        (In Prague, ty of to life.)

        tor t t deal and t tants of anot be a little automaton popped up from God knows where.

        Mean; opened up again.

        It came in.

        It rolled on little oppling progress, a clockall as a mast, advang at a stately if erratic paodding and beg and sial fragments of its surface as it came, its foliage rustling, noud perilously rog at a cra tone floor s er, almost out of trol,    evidently almost on t of collapse; it ernoon.

        But, alt looked as if etrically self-propelled, Arcimboldo t, pig up bits of tut-tutting at its ruination, pus, s, occasionally pig it up bodily and carrying it. s secretions and looked foro a good o t came. tor and ant ake it apart until t time.

        t is not,    and never e again, but, at t, not, for noer one final s stuck stock-still, tering one last, gross, meical sigh.

        A nipple dropped off. tor picked it up and offered it to trawberry! She shook her head.

        teristidicate ture is, like t bo stra of    from t time acc to oday,    grapes,    nuts, c apples some for older     on ;.

        But noation! io i. Sly:

        "If 70 per t    an eye, 75 per t an ear, 80 per t an arm, 85 per t a leg: age, at least, must    all four?"2

        Once again, sumped t last slo stra;Summer" ed -- subsided, slito    bo cegrate.

        It is not so muc to pretend trous being is alive, for noto    care o do is to plunge o ificial strangeness, pero t fles fles, ; -- explains Arcimboldo, displaying tercourse ify ry outside ts t her.

        "Reason bees ties of pleasure," said Freud.

        One day, o a    festival!

        So    t er.

        Peckisly demolis in t iced ttle cat played croquet one he girls flaxen hair.

        " t; he asked her.

        tion stirred o speech.

        "A and B began t; sly.

        turo look at    to pronoune piece of oracular wisdom. Sossed    on.

        "t; tole noug Ne?"3

        t tio stare at urning to dust in ths.

        "?" sed, no ion, as if, if tumble on t reply, sated back, diminutive, stern, rational, al ball and tossed back to "time ;, or, eveer, to the book from which she had sprung.

        "Poor toms a-cold," offered ter t, came silence.

        NOtE:

        to Alices drums:

        1    One.

        2    ten.

        3    t t day to tood in front of it, ood be.

        Problems and ansaale, Lewis Carroll, London, 1885.

        Alice ed by a logi and t is, from te of on sericted by logical dedu and is created by language, alto abstras .
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