Dr. Butridge/Jabberwock/King of Hearts Flashcards
Tabatha: Oh do you think? Just like mine and yours, and his and hers.
D: Hallam. Alfred Hallam.
Red Cross Nurse: Alice! Back to your bed.
D: Superventrical Tachycardia, with Hypovolemia –
Alice: What does that mean?
D: Hyperhydrosis –
Alice: That means he’ll be all right? Right?
D: Due to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis –
Red Cross Nurse: Catch that cough, he’ll be your death. Ward D. The good-as-dead.
D: Whaaat?
Red Cross Nurse: Is there family?
D: None left. She found him in the gutter, buried in the rubble. Whole block went down.
Angus: You try losing your wits on the front, then coming home to the Blitz.
D: Misplaced Wits: Hypnagogic hallucinations due to –
Red Cross Nurse: Dr. Butridge!
D: Whaaaat?
Alice: No! I didn’t mean it, Alfred. I didn’t!
D: Stay away.
Alice: Dr. Butridge, no. Bring him back!
D: There’s no returning. Terminal prognosis. Awaaaay. From that Haemoptystic Hare, that Buck Tubercular. “Twas brillig, and the slithy lobes” –
Alice: The Jabberwock?? That’s not what’s next. “Then came a pattering of feet on the stairs, and Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled–”
D: Trembling Sickness. Delirium Tremens. Orthostatic Tremor…
Alice: What?
D: Whaaaaat?
Alice: What?
J: Beware the Jabberwock!
Alice: No! Alfred!
J: Beware the frumious Bandersnatch, the jaws that bite, the claws that catch! (BRILLIG BRAELIG)
Queen: As you were. Well, I am proud – so proud, to behold this record-breaking crowd. Which of you, we can say, loves us most? Yes?
K: Never has there been a Queen…
Queen: Mm?
K: Who has accomplished so much…
Queen: And?
K: And has done… so many things.
Queen: You? Well. At least, she’s brought her head. That’s good.
K: Brought her head. That’s important.
(End of Isn’t It A Trial)
K: Herald – Read the Accusations.
Queen: You did.
K: And the Verdict is?
Mad Hatter: She added a big “Un” to everything “Important”.
K: Un-Important. That’s very important. And the Verdict is –
Queen: Acting as if she were some mock me?
K: A mockery!
Duchess: Well, I’m hardly the only thing she’s turned into an aging Queen.
K: How exactly does one get out of jury duty? … And the Verdict is?
Queen: Can someone silence that rather unfortunate grin? I cannot expert myself with another word. You, tell her for me.
K: Every dream would love to hold its dreamer. It’s –
Alice: But I know! I know the dream – by heart. This is my heart. My dream.
K: Oh do you think? Then–
Queen: You think?
K: Then, where are we, when you’re not here? You think we just appear –
Queen: Because you read us?
K: The truth is, we are here, and sometimes we let you into our dream.