Barbara's Random Thoughts

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

The hookah-smoking caterpillar

At work, we've been discussing cover images for our new catalog. We've been using Alice in Wonderland artwork for years, and for this cover, one of the suggested images is of the caterpillar talking to Alice while smoking a hookah. I liked this response to that particular image:

I did like the caterpillar, because in that part of the story I believe he asks Alice, "Who are you?" Which ties in with our goal of teaching students insight, philosophy as a means of learning more about yourself. However, I'd hate for customers to think that we are suggesting that philosophical insight can only be achieved by smoking unknown substances.

Emphasis mine.
| posted by Barbara | 7:19 PM