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“You are much too emotional, it is really quite natural” (Cheshire Cat)

RORSCHACH-RABBIT
The Rorschach technique:  a psychological test in which subjects’ perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analysed using psychological interpretation or complex algorhythms. Rorschach’s use of inkblots may have been inspired by German doctor Justinus Kerner who, in 1857, published a popular book of poems, each of which was inspired by an accidental inkblot. French psychologist Alfred Binet had also experimented with inkblots as a test of creativity and, after the turn of the century, psychological experiments where inkblots were utilized multiplied, with aims such as studying imagination and consciousness.

Life Is A Dream

acrostic
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A Note by Unsuk Chin:
Alice Acrostic
Lewis Carroll wrote this poem as a conclusion for his two Alice stories. It is an acrostic in which, reading down, the first letters of each line spell out the name Alice Pleasance Liddell, the girl who inspired the Alice stories. In this poem Carroll recalls, nine years after the event, the boating trip on the River Thames on 4 July 1862, during which he made up and first told some of the Alice adventures to the three Liddell sisters. In the last line of this acrostic, ‘Life, what is it but a dream?’, Carroll was probably making reference to the anonymous canon that even then was popular in England:
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream.