Lewis Carroll's chess Red Queen, from Through the Looking Glass,
is "often confused with" the playing cards Queen of Hearts,
from Alice in Wonderland —
" The King turned pale, and shut his notebook hastily.
'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury in a low, trembling voice….
. . . . 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first—verdict afterward.' "
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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The figure at right in the video of today's previous post,
"In Alice in Wonderland , the Red Queen
— College of Natural Resources commencement address,
Berck's address was titled "The Red Queen." |
Berck's dies natalis — "birth into heaven," in Catholic parlance —
was reportedly August 10, 2018. A Log24 synchronology check
yields a different chess-related figure … Actor/director John Huston:
