Through the Looking Glass
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) (also known as Alice through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alices Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (running helps you remain stationary, walking away from something brings you towards it, chessmen are alive, nursery rhyme characters exist, etc) Through the Looking-Glass includes such verses as Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter, and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The mirror which inspired Carroll remains displayed in Charlton Kings. The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May (4 May),[a] uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November (the day before Guy Fawkes Night),[b] uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. The White Queen offers to hire Alice as her ladys maid and to pay her Twopence a week, and jam every other day. Alice says that she doesnt want any jam today, and the Queen tells her: You couldnt have it if you did want it. The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam to-day. This is a reference to the rule in Latin that the word iam or jam meaning now in the sense of already or at that time cannot be used to describe now in the present, which is nunc in Latin. Jam is therefore never available today.
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