redqueeninla

¿From whence, “Red Queen in LA”? -excerpts from Through The Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll: “For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country – and a most curious country it was…. ‘I declare it’s marked out just like a large chessboard!’ Alice said at last…. ‘It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played – all over the world – if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a pawn, if only I might join – though of course I should ‘Like’ to be a Queen, best.’ … Alice never could quite make out, in thinking over afterward, how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying ‘Faster! Faster! but Alice felt she could not go faster, though she had not breath left to say so. The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. “ see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_(Through_the_Looking-Glass)