Lewis Carroll on Alice
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This document summarizes Lewis Carroll's description of Alice's character traits as seen through a dog's perspective. It states that Alice is described as loving, gentle, courteous to all people regardless of status, trusting even of wild impossibilities, and curiously enjoying life with the wonder of a child for whom all is new.
Lewis Carroll on Alice
- 1. Loving first Loving as a dog
- 2. I know no earthly love so pure and perfect
- 3. and gentle as a fawn
- 4. then courteous - courteous to all, high or low, grand or grotesque, King or Caterpillar
- 5. even as though she were herself a King's daughter, and her clothing of wrought gold
- 6. then trustful, ready to accept the wildest impossibilities with all that utter trust that only dreamers know;
- 7. and lastly, curious--wildly curious, and with the eager enjoyment of Life
- 8. that comes only in the happy hours of childhood, when all is new and fair Lewis Carroll on Alice