Author: Alice Carroll

Cited by

• A.S. Byatt (1)
  • IN: A Whistling Woman (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: `And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, `and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!' `But I'm not a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. `I'm a--I'm a--' `Well! what are you?' said the Pigeon. `I can see you're trying to invent something!' `I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day. `A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt. `I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it.
    FROM: Alice in the Wonderland, (1865), Saying, UK