Lucy Vickery

What Alice did next

issue 01 July 2017

In Competition No. 3004 you were invited to submit an extract from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Trumpland. As I was listening to Kellyanne Conway’s alternative-facts interview earlier this year, Humpty Dumpty’s words from Through the Looking-Glass floated into my mind (‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less’) and it struck me that Donald Trump’s America might be a good candidate for the Carollian treatment.
 
In what was another closely fought contest, Chris O’Carroll and D.A. Prince were unlucky losers. The winners take £30 each and the bonus fiver is Brian Murdoch’s.
 


After crossing the sea, Alice noticed that a tea party was in progress on the shore. ‘Might I have some tea?’ she asked.
The orange-faced gentleman spread his tiny hands in curious attitudes and said: ‘No way. This is the Boston Tea Party.

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