Alice, or the Queen, who are you?

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

Hi all faithful readers (Who still bother looking up my blog after such a long long sabatical on my part into Wonderland)...
Was just thinking of the analogies which the Alice stories contain...Carroll has always been one of my fav writers. Jabberwocky, the Mad hatter's tea party, and the Walrus and the Carpenter have stuck in my head since reading them as a child.
IF you've read my poetry...you'll rem me allusions more than once, to Carroll's work. (C/f "Reminiscing a Forgotten Time")
Also...chanced upon this quote whilst I was researching for stuff for my BioDiv project (haha...yes...you'll ask, why am I looking at Alice, when it has apparently no link to BioD? Well...the Oysters, and the dreamland the world's in is a GOOD start). Have a nice read...I'll try to update this blog soon. After my loads of papers and projects (and mugging in between):

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?"
"I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."
"She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted. "Can you do Subtraction? Take nine from eight."
"Nine from eight I can't, you know," Alice replied very readily: "but—"
"She can't do Subtraction," said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife—what's the answer to that?"
"I suppose—" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course. Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?"
Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it—and the dog wouldn't remain: it would come to bite me—and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!"
"Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen.
"I think that's the answer."
"Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen: "the dog's temper would remain."
"But I don't see how—"
"Why, look here!" the Red Queen cried. "The dog would lose its temper, wouldn't it?"
"Perhaps it would," Alice replied cautiously.
"Then if the dog went away, its temper would remain!" the Queen exclaimed triumphantly.