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Story · Britain · 1865

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

31Leave it.

It's the book, the nonsense is the fun, and it isn't a lesson or a movie.

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The review

A girl follows a rabbit and the rules stop meaning what they say. Lewis Carroll, 1865. A child can read it. I've read it that way, at bedtime, when I wanted something that wouldn't turn into a speech. The nonsense is the pleasure. It is not a lesson in obedience.

It is also not the 1903 film, not the 1951 film, and not the 2010 film. If someone in the house says Alice and means a picture, I send them back to the book. Nothing in it trains a child to sit still and be good. That's fine. I'd rather a short silly chapter than a lesson pasted on by a later movie.

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Live Historic number 31. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

44 instead of 31

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is still a novel film, and it scores 44 instead of 31. What you gain is industry: Quasimodo's work is ringing the bells of the cathedral.

The eight

2
Industry
Nobody works a job; a girl follows a rabbit.
4
Household
A girl is the traveler, and no parent is along for the journey.
2
Piety
It is not a lesson in obedience, and no conscience stops the nonsense.
4
Courage
She follows a rabbit where the rules stop meaning what they say.
3
Republic
The rules stop meaning what they say, and no town is owed anything.
3
Temperance
The nonsense is the pleasure, and the next odd rule is the bait.
3
Truth
Rules and promises do not hold; the joke is that they come without a bill.
4
Stewardship
A child can keep the 1865 book, which is not any later Alice film.

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Story · France · 1844

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The Three Musketeers

34Leave it.

Their loyalty is a pleasure, and the bodies are still a game to them.

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The loyalty is the fun, and I don't quite trust the fun. A poor Gascon joins three men who live by the sword. A woman in the plot is hunted for a piece of jewelry, with a queen's diamonds in that trouble. A teen can read it. I wouldn't offer it as proof that friendship excuses the rest.

I was amused, then sour. The fighting pleases them. That isn't a reason your kid should be pleased the same way. Read it for the four if you read it. Before the jokes settle, say the bodies are a game to them.

Journal

Keep The Three Musketeers in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 34. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

44 instead of 34

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is still a novel film, and it scores 44 instead of 34. What you gain is stewardship: The building outlasts the men who wreck one another.

The eight

3
Industry
Four men live by the sword, a game more than a trade.
3
Household
A woman is hunted for jewelry, not lived with as a household.
2
Piety
Their loyalty never makes them regret that bodies are a game.
5
Courage
They risk bodies they treat as sport, over a queen's diamonds.
4
Republic
The debt that holds is to the four, not to the town.
2
Temperance
The fighting is the pleasure, and nothing in them curbs it.
6
Truth
The four stay loyal while a woman is hunted for jewelry.
2
Stewardship
They leave a game of bodies and a woman still in the chase.

Where to read

Finding the page.

Live Historic · The Three Musketeers · 34IMDb

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