Why, about ! Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?Where I am now, of course, said Alice.Not you! Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!If that there King was to wake, added Tweedledum, you'd go out--bang!--just like a candle!I shouldn't! Alice exclaimed indignantly.
'Why,' said Tweedledee, clapping his hands in triumph, 'and if he stopped dreaming about you, where do you think you'd be?' He suggested that Alice is just a part of someone's dream and would vanish if the dreamer awoke, comparing her to a candle that would go out suddenly. Tweedledee's confident tone reflects his belief in the fleeting, illusory nature of Alice's existence within this dream world.
Alice, however, protests her reality and shows indignation at the idea of being so insignificant. She insists she is alive and present, challenging Tweedledee's dismissive view. The conversation highlights the playful, surreal nature of Lewis Carroll's story, where reality and illusion blur, and characters play with the concepts of existence and consciousness.
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