Word: wonderlands
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...also disagreed with Sofen's assertion that the museum presented revisionist, upside-down "Alice in Wonderland" history. As proof of the museum's inaccuracies, Sofen points to a placard which claims the Emancipation Proclamation allowed Lincoln's in-laws in Kentucky to "legally keep their slaves...
...also disagreed with Sofen's assertion that the museum presented revisionist, upside-down "Alice in Wonderland" history. As proof of the museum's inaccuracies, Sofen points to a placard which claims the Emancipation Proclamation allowed Lincoln's in-laws in Kentucky to "legally keep their slaves...
...Union soldiers, who "were often guilty of theft and murder" against defenseless Southern whites, and Northern carpetbaggers, who "were exploiting the ignorance of the former slaves for their own selfish purposes." Worst of all? The abolitionists, who dared "to place blacks in positions of authority." This was Alice in Wonderland history, a version in which everything I had learned was turned on its ear and served up as fact. And yet the white-haired Vicksburg women who ran the museum hardly seemed to notice...
...luxury that I often don't have during term time. I won't have to worry about the next assignment, the next Crimson deadline, or the next SAA event. I'll have the autonomy to do things I've always wanted to do, from finding out why the Wonderland T-stop is so named, to eating sandwiches by the river with my friends when I take a break from learning to cook. Or maybe just mooching off my friends who already know how to cook (Gaurav, Uttam, and Navin, that means...
...search--the quest--informs Greek myths ("We have Orpheus and Morpheus in the film," says Larry) as well as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "It's a story about consciousness," says Larry, "a child's perception of an adult's world. The Matrix is about the birth and evolution of consciousness. It starts off crazy, then things start to make sense." It can also be read as a variant on Gibson's Neuromancer, the 1986 cyberpunk classic about a computer cowboy on the run. "It'd be near impossible to make a movie out of that," says Larry. "We knew...