Question: Alice in Wonderland

[Klaz]

when Alice is talking to the mad hatter there is a card on the side of his hat that has 10/6 written on it. Does anyone have any idea what this might mean? This movie is so trippy it's great!

[DarkGod]

You can find the answer here
http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/?alice11.html

[mudpuddle]

The Book is Better...

[cerridwen]

I wouldn't look too heavily on Alice symbolism... it was written when the author was trippin'...

[Atom bomb therapy]

nu uhh

[Balloonatic]

hmm...one of the questions in the Q & A is "was carrol a pedophile?"

the answer? "probably not"

haha

[Balloonatic]

"The tag on the hat is the price in 'old money', pounds shillings and pennies written l/s/d (believe it or not). 10/6 cannot be 10 pounds/6 pennies (that would be 10/0/6), it is possibly 10 pounds/6 shillings but I suspect it is 'ten-and-six'; 10 shillings/six pennies...a large sum in the mid- 1800's..."

[Maggie Sugar]

I thought it was a joke about the way hats were given a size in the Victorian Age. The sizes evidenly were difficult to understand.

Carrol was actually a migraine sufferer, and the "trippiness" of the book was part of his Migraine Aura (Google Migraine Aura and "Alice in Wonderland Effect" to see what I am speaking about) as well as the opiates he took for the pain.

[andhols]

It means ten shillin and six pence. well, i am english!
Besides, i woz told Carrol enjoyed his opium.