girls

formerly known as

girIs, Self-love

and if you're not good directly,

I'll put you through into Looking-glass House.

How would you like THAT?

Now, if you'll only attend, Kitty,

and not talk 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 better the other way. I can see all of it when I go upon a chair-

all but the bit behind the fireplace

Oh! I do so wish I could see THAT bit!

I want so much to know whether they've a fire in the winter:

you never CAN tell, you know,

unless our fire smokes, and then smokes come up in that room too- but that may only be pretence,

just to make it look as if they had a fire.

Well then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way;

I know that, because I've held up one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room.

I wonder if there are beatiful things in the world of mirrors. . .

I wonder if there are more wonderful things in the world of mirrors. . .

My self in the world of mirrors makes a bored face, just like I do.

The same boring face as the person in this boring world.

I wonder why Alice thought the world of mirrors was different than ours.

No. She saw that the world was reversed, and she wondered if the smoke coming from the fireplace was real.

But even in the world of mirrors, I'm still making a bored face. . . That side might be boring too.

That's what I think.

The world of mirrors is just like this one.

But to Alice, the world of mirrors looked like a wonderful place.

'How would you like to live in Looking-glass house, Kitty?

Wonder if they'd give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to drink-

But oh, Kitty! now we come to the passage.

You can just see a little PEEP of the passage in Looking-glass house, if you leave the door of our drawing-room wide open:

and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.'

'Oh, Kitty! how nice would it be if we could only get through

into Looking-glass house!

I'm sure it's got, oh! such beatiful things in it!'