TO REACH OR NOT TO REACH THE HILL...I'M EAGER TO SEE THE FLOWERS!

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Alice, great character, great book, great writer. 
I always find a clue, a tip, a moment for silence and reflection while embedded in her mysterious world. Now, in this challenging academic writing practice I'm trying to explore, I found you, again, my dear Alice! And I can't do any other thing than read, read again, and keep on reading all the time! Until the looking-glass reflects my search!

 CHAPTER II
THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS
       “I should see the garden far better”, said Alice to herself, “if I could get to the top of the hill: and here’s a path that gets straight to it –at least, no, it doesn’t do that”- (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), “but I suppose it will at last. But how curiously it twists! It’s more than a corkscrew than a path! Well, this turn goes to the hill, I suppose –no, it doesn’t! This goes straight back to the house! Well then, I’ll try it the other way.”
       And so she did: wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, do what she would. Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself.


References
Carroll, L. (1872). Chapter II. In Macmillan and Co. (Ed.), Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there. (p.6). Retrieved from http://www.gasl.org/refbib/Carroll Alice_1st.pdf


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