White rabbit scene 7

Question 1

Hold onto me.

There we go. I think it’s-

Hmmm.

Yes I think it’s stopped.

Answer 1

So what, are you going to take me to some bonkers jail now? Entomb me in jelly or something?

Question 2

Eek. You’re angry.

Answer 2

I’m furious. That was total nonsense, call that a fair trial-

Question 3

It’s actually good if you’re angry.

Answer 3

Is it?

Question 4

To be in contact with your- yes- absolutely. Result.

Answer 4

What?

Question 5

You’ve found it. You’ve found your heart.

What?

Answer 5

My heart?

Question 6

Yes. Hurrah. I mean- sort of- Go right to the Heart, I said.

Answer 6

The Heart I was looking for was my heart?

Question 7

Yes. Bingo. Game over.

Answer 7

All this time I’m walking around like a human thesaurus- did he mean the centre, or the Heart of the matter, or the Queen of Hearts or- all this time you meant my heart? You could have saved me a lot of-

Question 8

Yeah but you needed to- to get there on your own. I did say that.

Answer 8

I was at a funeral, yeah? That was important, that was-

Question 9

This was important.

Answer 9

Wandering around flipping Monkey Island talking to one flipping nutter after another?

Question 10

To teach you something, to help you learn something.

Answer 10

Croquet? Tea parties?

Question 11

Well the tea party of course was a lesson about time.

Answer 11

It was mostly some guff about jam, wasn’t it?

Question 12

You see what happens is, all the time you’re there thinking it’s mostly about jam- on the surface, yes- but there’s this other voice going into your head sideways telling you time’s a great healer, for example, that things will get better with time and in your heart you know that clocks and time and people all have to move forward, don’t they?

Answer 12

Obvious.

Question 13

There were lessons here for- for you to learn from.

Answer 13

What, lessons like steer clear of duchesses, they’re all nuts?

Question 14

You don’t know what life’s going to throw at you next.

Answer 14

Sometimes life throws you a pig dressed as a baby.

Question 15

And you catch it, don’t you? You caught it. Set it free.

Answer 15

And then a cat-man comes along and does some creepy smiling at you.

Question 16

Other people’s smiles look strange at the moment ‘cause you don’t feel like smiling yourself.

Answer 16

And what about Humpty Dumpty? He was horrible.

Question 17

He was difficult. But things have to be difficult sometimes. Difficult’s good for you in the end.

Answer 17

And the stupid poem- the Jabberwocky?

Question 18

Well that’s about your fear of not understanding things. Remember what the Cheshire cat said about how things don’t always make sense? That sometimes you just have to accept it?

Answer 18

I hate things that don’t make sense.

Question 19

But things that don’t make sense are as much a part of life as things that fit together perfectly. It’s your age- you think everything should add up and everything should be fair-

Answer 19

Oh don’t tell me what a child I am.

Question 20

I know, I know. You feel a hundred years old. The thing is there’s some things in the world that can’t be understood. It’s time for you to get out of the house, Alice.

Answer 20

Don’t tell me what I- this was a stupid wild goose chase. God’s sake I know exactly where my heart is cause it aches like a-

Question 21

Like walking around with a tin bath strapped to your back?

Answer 21

He’s been dead two weeks and you want me to be dancing around?

Question 22

No, no not now- but one day. Like with Tweedledum and Tweedledee. One day you’ll be like them, you’ll be able to look back and think about Joe happily, remembering happy things. Because it’s OK to be happy, eventually. And it’s OK to laugh, because Joe would want that, wouldn’t he? You musn’t hold yourself back because you think you ought to be in constant pain and if you’re not you’re being disloyal. And it’s OK to eat because you’re still- You musn’t be embarassed you’re still alive, you know?

Answer 22

And what, if I remember all this stuff I’m going to be okay about Joe being dead, am I?

Question 23

Oh no. No, that’ll take years. We’re just working on getting you out of the house. Remember what caterpillar said- one day at a time.

Answer 23

That’s just a stupid cliché.

Question 24

It’s a cliché because it’s true. Oh, I’ve got something to give back.

Answer 24

What is it?

Question 25

No, that’s a receipt for some carrots-

Here we are. One plectrum. Courtesy of Wonderland State Border Control.

He’s always with you.

Answer 25

I feel like an idiot.

Question 26

Don’t feel like an idiot. Why do you feel like an idiot?

Answer 26

Cause I should’ve been able to work it out myself.

Question 27

Don’t underestimate your brain’s ability to fool you, throw you a curve ball. You know, you’re going through something massive, something that’d be massively difficult for anyone, and you’re only twelve.

Answer 27

Yeah, let’s not get back onto me being 12 again, it-

Wait- my brain? What d’you mean, my brain?

Question 28

Your brain made Wonderland. For you to hide in for a bit.

Answer 28

I made this?

Question 29

Which makes you sort of brilliant. Very brilliant, actually.

Answer 29

Are you going?

Question 30

Your mum and dad are going to need you.

Answer 30

My mum hates me.

Question 31

Not true.

Answer 31

She’d rather have the Knave of Hearts- I mean no- she’d rather have Joe- agh, you’ve confused me, I can’t separate-

Question 32

Grown ups aren’t always logical.

Answer 32

Everyone’s mental.

Question 33

Some of the time.

Answer 33

Obvious again.