Down the Rabbit Hole

It just had to be a quick visit to Guildford today to search out the "Alice in Wonderland" sculptor for the Mono Monday challenge.  This sculpture, by local sculptor Edwin Russell, depicts the opening paragraphs of the book: 

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'


So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.


Although Lewis Carroll never actually lived in Guildford, he owned a house near the castle where his family, including six unmarried sisters, resided and spent many of his vacations from Christchurch, Oxford there. He caught flu during a Christmas visit and died in January 1898. He is buried in the Mount Cemetery across the river valley.