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Through
the Looking-Glass
and what Alice
found there
Kapitel 6:
Humpty Dumpty, Lewis Carroll, Seite 7 ( von 7 )
"I shouldn't know you again if we
did meet,"
Humpty Dumpty replied in a discontented tone, giving her one of his fingers to
shake; "you're so exactly like other people."
"The face is what one goes by, generally," Alice remarked in a
thoughtful tone.
"That's just what I complain of," said Humpty Dumpty. "Your face
is the same as everybody has - the two eyes, so -" (marking their places
in the air with his thumb) "nose in the middle, mouth under. It's always
the same. Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for
instance - or the mouth at the top - that would be
some help."
"It wouldn't look nice," Alice objected. But Humpty Dumpty only shut
his eyes and said "Wait till you've tried."
Alice waited a minute to see if he would speak again, but as he never opened
his eyes or took any further notice of her, she said "Good-bye!" once
more, and, getting no answer to this, she quietly walked away: but she couldn't
help saying to herself as she went, "Of all the unsatisfactory -"
(she repeated this aloud, as it was a great comfort to have such a long word to
say) "of all the unsatisfactory people I
ever met -"
She never finished the sentence, for at this moment a heavy crash shook the
forest from end to end.
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