You’re all so terribly attached to your edges. Your skin. Your beginning and your end. You think you’re a solid thing. A noun. But you’re a verb, darling. A vanishing verb. You appear, you flicker, you leave a mark on the air, and then you’re gone.
"If you only walk long enough, you’re sure to get somewhere. In that direction lives a Hatter; and in that direction lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad. But I don’t want to go among mad people, Alice remarked. Oh, you can’t help that, said the Cat: we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. How do you know I’m mad? said Alice. You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here." The "Nonsense Narrator" (Alice in Wonderland Jr.) In musical versions like Alice in Wonderland Jr. Cheshire Cat Monologue
"Would you tell me, please, which way you ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. If you don't much care where—well, then it doesn't matter which way you go, does it?. You’re all so terribly attached to your edges
: A darker, more gothic take where the monologue is delivered as cynical advice in a twisted, psychological version of Wonderland. Audition Tips If using this dialogue as a monologue: You think you’re a solid thing
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