The Parable of Alice

"I'm Do-Do Dodgeson", he blushed, before Dodos
became extinct. The White knight's gone too,
though he felt strong when Alice waved him goodbye.
The love that dared not speak flashed its filmless camera.

In Paramount's Alice, Gary C-Cooper played the White Knight.
Wittgenstein was awed in the front row of the Cambridge Odeon,
wolfing popcorn as the movie filled his vision.

The second book's always the hardest. Experience rubs
smooth the famed edges, leaving an unfinished trilogy where
expectation bounds perception, makes history into prophecy.

Aphorists die young, or live to regret their promise.
"The name really is The Aged Aged Man", the knight said.

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