Neville's answer to anyone who thinks a children's book is only a children's book. Alice comes with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum to see the king, who is asleep and dreaming; Tweedle Dee asks what he is dreaming about, Alice says no one can know that, and he answers triumphantly: why, he's dreaming about you - and what do you think would happen to you if he stopped dreaming? Neville says the author saw it and saw it clearly and put it into picture form, and then presses the question where it belongs: what would happen to us if God stopped dreaming? The answer is the doctrine - he is not going to stop until he has awakened us as himself, because the dreamer must be awakened; if he stopped this dream we would all vanish into thin air and leave not a rack behind, and only those in whom he had awakened would be one with him. He adds the complaint that gives the story its edge: we go blindly on thinking isn't that lovely, it means nothing - **that is how sound asleep we are** - and it is a child's story. Told with the fairy tales he defends in the same breath, Cinderella and Alice, which he says have far more real vision in them than all the morning papers put together. Three or four lectures (1098, 1464, 2148, and Alice more widely).