“It is very sweet to me, to be loved by
her as children love: though the experience of many years have now taught me
that there are few things in the world so evanescent [fleeting] as a child’s
love. Nine‑tenths of the children, whose love once seemed as warm as hers, are
now merely on the terms of everyday acquaintance.”
Through
the looking glass – carroll is
said to have based the white knight on himself, ironically he is the only one
to show compasion to alice in
the story but must leave her when she reachers the eight square (ches
game) as she will take her role as the queen. –this could be a methphor for
the way carrol felt
he is left behind by children as they grown up but who once loved him.
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