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The quote about the world being controlled by a pipe smoking rabbit isn't from Alice in Wonderland, right?

I came across a picture of a tattoo of Marc Johns's picture, which says: "unbeknownst to most, the world is completely controlled by a single pipe smoking rabbit", and people saying it's from Alice in Wonderland. I've read both books, and it's definitely not, right? Or am I going mad?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    No, it's Marc John's original nonsense, rather than derivative nonsense.

    The only connection it has to Alice in Wonderland is it's deliberate attempt to mimic the odd number of anthropomorphic children's books such as Wind in the Willows.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Pipe Smoking Rabbit

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    My favourite quote from Alice in Wonderland is "I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date!" My favourite quote is actually not a quote. It's the last passage from my favourite book, the Five People You Meet in Heaven: "Lines formed at Ruby Pier - just as a line formed someplace else: five people, waiting, in five chosen memories, for a little girl named Amy or Annie to grow and to love and to age and to die, and to finally have her questions answered - why she lived and what she lived for. And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called Stardust Band Shell the to share his part of the secret heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Well, the rabbit doesn't smoke a pipe in Alice in Wonderland, the Caterpillar does. The quote is not from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll or his sequal, Through the Looking Glass. It is from a Cartoonist named Marc Johns.

  • 5 years ago

    Actually, there is a similar rabbit in "Watership Down", by Richard Adams. Dandelion is telling one of the legends of Elarehrah, the father of all rabbits, and Rabscuttle, his companion (and cohort) once disguises himself as a Demon rabbit covered in soot and he smokes a cigar.

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    5 years ago

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    "I felt so lonesome all of a sudden, I almost wished I was dead" -Holden Caulfield Also...I love Alice and Wonderland too.

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