Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

"He's dreaming now," said Tweedledee: "and what do you think he's dreaming about?"
Alice said, "Nobody can guess that."
"Why, about you!" Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. "And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?"
"Where I am now, of course," said Alice.
"Not you!" Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. "You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!"
"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out - bang! - just like a candle!"
"I shouldn't!" Alice exclaimed indignantly. "Besides, if I'm only a sort of thing in his dream, what are you, I should like to know?"
"Ditto," said Tweedledum.
"Ditto, ditto!" cried Tweedledee.
He shouted this so loud that Alice couldn't help saying, "Hush! You'll be waking him, I'm afraid, if you make so much noise."
"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."
"I am real!" said Alice, and began to cry.
"You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying," Tweedledee remarked: "there's nothing to cry about."
"If I wasn't real," Alice said - half-laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous - "I shouldn't be able to cry."
"I hope you don't suppose those are real tears?" Tweedledum interrupted in a tone of great contempt.
"I know they're talking nonsense," Alice thought to herself: "and it's foolish to cry about it."

Аліса обережно виплутала щітку і якнайдбайливіше довела Королевину зачіску до ладу.

• Ну, тепер зачіска хоч куди! - сказала вона, поперешпилювавши майже всі шпильки. - Вам конче треба завести покоївку.
• Тебе, звичайно, я б взяла залюбки! - сказала Королева. - Два пенси на тиждень і варення кожного не цього дня.

• Я в покоївки не збираюся, - сказала вона. - Та й до варення не ласа.
• Варення смачне-пресмачне! Мед медом! - наполягала Королева.
• Але я не хочу. Принаймні, сьогодні.
• Сьогодні ти його не мала б, якби й хотіла, - сказала Королева. - Моє правило таке: варення на завтра і варення на вчора. Тільки не на сьогодні.
• Але ж колись настане черга й "варення на сьогодні"! - запротестувала Аліса.
• Не настане! - сказала Королева. - Варення дається лише завтра, а сьогодні - на те й сьогодні, що буває лише сього дня!