Circus - Jace Cameron (читать книгу онлайн бесплатно без .txt) 📗
“Together we can make it through.” I cut in.
“And you know how we’ll do it?”
“Have no clue,” I chuckle.”
“By being madder.”
I almost cry out of joy. With all things not making sense, Jack here next to me make the most sense of all.
And even if I am imagining him, I don’t mind. I love you, Jack Diamond, and together we’re about to stand up against Black Chess in the most nonsensical—but greatest—war of all time.
Epilogue
Director’s office, Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum
Dr. Tom Truckle, still sipping his favorite mock turtle soup, was watching the Pillar with intent through the surveillance camera.
The Pillar was smoking his hookah as usual. He was wiggling his feet and singing along to a song called “What if God Was Mad Like Us.” Tom actually liked the tune.
What was new? The Pillar was happy as usual, not giving a damn about this world.
But Tom was still puzzled, staring at the invitation he’d received from the Queen to attend the Event.
The invitation that hadn’t been for him.
The invitation that had originally been to professor Carter Cocoon Chrysalis Pillar.
Why had the Queen of England invited the Pillar to the Event? That puzzled Tom a lot.
He wished he could figure it out, watching the Pillar in his cell twenty-four-seven. But the Pillar never did anything strange or hinting to a clue.
Until now...
Dr. Tom Truckle watched the Pillar stand up and pull out a secret drawer in his favorite couch. From inside, he pulled out a mask of a clown, then he pulled out a long leather coat, and lastly a ridiculously long hat.
That among a number of teacups.
Tom squinted, horror filling his eyes. This couldn’t be. This just couldn’t be.
The Pillar sat back on the couch, smoking his hookah and staring at something his hand. Something Tom couldn’t see without zooming in.
Tom zoomed in, and he could see it.
While the Pillar was humming “What if God Was Mad Like Us,” he was holding a golden key in his hand. He kept staring it with a wide smirk from ear to ear on his face, fiddling with the key and smoking his hookah.
The END...
Alice will return in Hookah (Insanity 4)
Thank You
Thank you for purchasing and downloading this insane book (probably three of them at this point—big grin). I’m so happy, and grateful, to be able to share this story with you, and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed making it up!
Talking about making things up, not everything is a figment of my imagination. All locations, including Ha Ha Street, and Piccadilly Circus with its Statue and Arrow, and the incredibly mysterious Garden of Cosmic Speculation, are real (and yes, part of it was modeled after Wonderland, and the public can only access it one day per year, but it doesn’t belong to the March Hare, of course). Maybe you’ll have the chance to visit them someday.
The historical facts about the Circus and the Invisible Plague are sadly true. But in order to not spoil the next book, I’d prefer to elaborate on them later.
And, of course, all the tidbits from Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland riddles are straight from the book, although I have added a few of my own interpretations.
But make no mistake; Zashchishchaiushchikhsya is a real Russian word, which Lewis Carroll was fascinated by in his one and only trip out of England.
I’vealsocreated a special Pinterest page for you, where you can see for yourself all the places and riddles Alice and Pillar visited—and a few images of the Invisible Plague, the Garden in Scotland, and a few other interests.You can access it HERE
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Thank you, for everything.
Like I said, I’m delaying every detail until the next book to avoid spoilers. But I’d to address the beautiful people of Britain and apologize if I got a wrong fact here and there. I’m not English but it’s been a pleasure delving into Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece and hunting its roots all over London, Oxford, and his hometown. A mysteriously beautiful country, indeed.
And wow, it’s been more than two years since I first published my first book, and how lucky I was that all you believed in that story—and me. I am forever in debt.
Thanks again for being mad.
Cameron.
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About the Author
Cameron Jace is the boy next door who managed, by some miracle, to be come the bestselling author of the Grimm Diaries series and the Insanity series. A graduate of the College of Architecture, and a devout collector of out-of-print books, he is obsessed with the origins of folk tales and the mysterious storytellers who first told them. Three of his books made Amazon's Top 100 Customer Favorites in Kindle 2013 and Amazon's Top 100 kindle list. Cameron lives in California with his girlfriend. When he isn't writing or collecting books, he is reading or playing his guitar.
