♞ 2nd Cup ◊ Audio

[10shlling6pence]

Well--

Between a floating sickness and terribly tyrannical tea testy tarries, I find my few days here to be...

Odd.

This device, for example, I have yet to truly master. At the very least, I have figured the contraption to record what I may to this 'network'.

Aside and all, I cannot find the heart or resolute to complain--for here, I had not imagined

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[othersideofwhat]

Oh dear. You're someone else looking for Alice--or, Alices, really. I've quite forgot how many there are now, but it's certainly more than one.

Did you find the Alice you wanted?

[10shlling6pence]

Oh--my Alice--our Alice--has been inescapably and entirely found--as it is, she's so entirely Alice I hadn't thought the possibility of other Alices for some time.

Are there many here? Right or wrong Alices, I'm certain they're delightful ones.

[othersideofwhat]

Oh good--I'm quite glad to hear that.

There are quite a few, yes. One of them is even a boy! Oh, but I'm Alice too, so I always wonder if people might be looking for me when they ask about Alice. I certainly shouldn't wonder if people I know are looking for me by now.

[10shlling6pence]

Well, it is all and my pleasure to meet you, Alice! A certainly gloriffic Alice you must be.

My, I hadn't thought there could and would be so many of you--I wonder if they're all Alices to their core--it would be quite unfortunate to meet an Alice who was really an Agnes.

[othersideofwhat]

Yes, it's very nice to meet you too. I'm not sure I'm quite gloriffic, though. I'm not even sure that's a proper word, you know.

I can't imagine that someone could be an Alice, but really an Agnes. I wondered once if I might not be myself at all and might very well be someone else, like Agnes, but that was because I'd gone through a great many changes in one day. But, of course, that's quite nonsense, because she's she and I'm I.

[10shlling6pence]

A word is a word, for word and meaning has such and is such--however gloriffic, tandmonious, frumious or troublish they may be.

Well, you could certainly be yourself and not entirely yourself, for often some may lose part of who they are and take ages to find and replace that part that has been missing--a fullness and wholity!

[othersideofwhat]

Now, I know none of those words are real words, but I've certainly heard some of them before. But that doesn't make them any less nonsense. 'Wholity' isn't a proper word at all.

[10shlling6pence]

What temper! For words and letters, what passion at such and unentirely--how and why?

[othersideofwhat]

How and why what?

And I do not think I have a temper.

[10shlling6pence]

How and why--I may as well hear your foot stamping!

Entirely bullying and hottish it is--why, I am reminded of--..of..

..Alice?

[othersideofwhat]

Yes, that is my name.

I'm not quite sure you've told me yours, though.

[10shlling6pence]

Alice. Alice and all, but not quite--

Tarrant. Tarrant Hightopp, your servant, of course.

A Hatter, by life and trade.

[othersideofwhat]

Oh no. You're the Mad Hatter, aren't you?

[10shlling6pence]

A Hatter, the Hatter, and quite and entirely only and lone--

What a remark, to say how I am mad...

[othersideofwhat]

But you really are quite mad. Or you were when I first met you, at least. And I suppose you still must be or you wouldn't be using words like 'wholity'.

[10shlling6pence]

What and such words could never make a man so mad!