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- From: dsy@psych.toronto.edu (Desiree Sy)
- Subject: Conversations in Alice (was Re: 92 in rabreview)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.173024.27488@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:30:24 GMT
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- Anne Jessop writes, in response to Dani Zweig's description of
- graphic novels:
-
- >I am reminded of the first page of _Alice in Wonderland_: "Once or twice
- >[Alice] had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
- >pictures or conversation in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought
- >Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"
-
- To which Pam Gurd asks:
-
- >Did you ever wonder what Alice meant by "conversations"? This was one
- >of the deep mysteries of my childhood, that Alice's sister read books
- >with nothing in them at all.
-
- I think by "conversations" Alice means dialogue, as opposed to
- expository text.
-
- -desiree
-