Alice's Clockwork

I'm not a very big fan of Alice in Wonderland. I actually don't like it at all. I think it's been overproduced and over conceptualized. The eccentrically whimsical story has lost its innocence. Once that aspect of literature is lost, it's not longer a story.
But, to contradict myself, I stumbled upon this silent film version of Alice on youtube and really enjoyed it. It made me feel the way, I suppose, a story like Alice's should. Mesmerized and a little disturbed. And it's always intriguing to see how the filmmakers of that era gave life to such abstract and challenging ideas.

Take Away for Today:

If I Had A Heart

There are feelings I experience that I can't attach to emotion or feeling. They are an integral part of my being, but are indescribable and unachievable. They come without warning, with certain loyal triggers. They culminate a part of me that is deep beyond my face and my person. It is beyond being human. There's another element to it.



Small wonder the post-natal period proved so fertile. She composes best in that state any new parent will recognise, awake but exhausted, where reality blurs into imagination and ideas flutter in and out. “Half of what the songs are about is the subconscious,” she says, “ideas of things happening. A lot of it is like daydreaming, dreaming when you’re awake, but tired; a lot of stories come from that world. I try to write when I‘m in that state - I’m very bad at remembering later, so I have to do it right away.” - http://feverray.com/biography/

What a beautiful way to say what's always been on the tip of my tong.