Lewis Carroll

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2,228 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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Through the Looking Glass · Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

Kitty, dear, let's pretend

And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favourite phrase let's pretend and

She had had quite a long argument with her sister only the day before, all because Alice had begun with Let's pretend we're kings and queens and

And her sister, who liked being very exact, had argued that they couldn't because there was only two of them, and Alice had been reduced at last to say Well, you can be one of them, and then I'll be the rest.

And once she had really frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear Nurse, let's do pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone.

But this is taking us away from Alice's speech to the kitten.

Let's pretend that you're the red queen, Kitty.

Do you know I think if you sat up and folded your arms, you'd look exactly like her.

Now do try there's a deer.

And Alice got the red queen off the table and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate.

However, the thing didn't succeed, uh principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn't fold its arms properly.

So, to punish it, she held it up to the looking glass that it might see how sulky it was.

And if you're not good directly, she added, I'll put you through into looking glass house.

How would you like that?

Now, if you only attend, Kitty, and not talk so much, I'll tell you all my ideas about Looking Glass House.

First there's a room you can see through the glass.

That's just the same as our drawing room, only the things go the other way.

I can see all of it when I get upon a chair, all but the bit behind the fireplace.

Ooh, I do so wish I could see that bit.

I want so much to know whether they have a fire in the winter.

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