John Kendrick Bangs
From Alice in Blunderland: â€œCertain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apieceâ€“â€ ,â€œMercy!â€ cried Alice, â€œWhy, that isâ€“that is terrible.â€,â€œIt certainly is,â€ said the March Hare ruefully, itâ€™s rotten. Here Iâ€™ve been holding out for $1,250 for mine, and these duffers want to go in for a cut rate that will absolutely ruin the business.â€,John Kendrick Bangs takes Carrollâ€™s Alice in Wonderland and turns it into a political satire in many ways as fresh, keen and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. (Summary by Ruth Golding),"An Underground Best-Seller" - "Animal Farm for 21st Century Politics" - What would happen if Alice, of Wonderland fame, were dropped into a political system where the government runs every aspect of life? You would have Alice in Blunderland, a 1907 classic, brought back to life-with even more meaning for our modern times. Join Alice as she explores a city where: The town has an official beggar-who is on government salary. - Boys are required to dance with homely girls-or get arrested. - They have the safest, most fuel-efficient, mass transit system in the world-because it doesn't go anywhere. - Teeth are public property. - The Commissioner of Public Verse has 16,743 poets working for him-and words that don't rhyme are made to rhyme by civic decree. - And, the official government monetary policy is expressed as follows: We promise to pay / This bond some day / If of the stuff / We've got enough. / And if we haven't, pray don't despond, / For we'll pay it off with another bond. - "This would be one of the funniest political satires I've ever read-if it weren't so close to current reality."
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Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream