The Ballad of Alice Without Wonderland
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson); Through the Looking Glass "Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?" "My dear Doctor, they're all true." "Even the lies?" " Especially the lies." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (episode written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe) Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (which I presented last week) is often cited as one of the "greatest films ever made". I'm not normally a fan of describing things in superlatives like that (I consider it the worst thing ever!) but it has to be said that when social anthropologists name an entire psychological phenomenon after your movie, it's a cinch you're in with some pretty exalted company. You don't hear them talking about the " Jaws Principle" or the " Dr. Strangelove Proposition" or the " Godfather Assertion". ...