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Title: The Truth is in the Poetry
Review: "How yet this dark and lonely nightAbout us tempts and teases;How, too, this ever-waning lightSo thoroughly displeases..."So proclaims the Queen of Hearts in her final soliloquy to the doomed Knave of Hearts in J.T. Holden's masterful retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic, appropriately entitledAlice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland. These mournful words could just as easily be attributed to the bewildered moviegoer who has shelled out good money for Tim Burton's spectacle-without-substance sequel to that same Carroll classic. As the credits roll and the truth settles in, it is the advice of the wily Cheshire Cat in Holden's book that haunts with its greater truth:"If you really must go, then it's best you should knowThat to find you need only to seek--But in seeking and finding, you may need reminding,Once found, is what's sought worth a peek?"
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