Last night in NYC (where I plan never to go again - OK maybe a layover), there was a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with the head editor of U. S. Vogue as the co-chair (she is every year), and who should show up. In my designer eyes, she looks sallow, angry (at best probably more like, "if the person who thought of this idea crosses my path in the next 100 years I'll scream like crazy") and of course entitled.
It takes me back to a childhood story and thinking of the terrorfying Queen of Hearts
From Sparknotes about Alice in Wonderland
Doesn't this just sound like Hill?...violent, authoritative and dominant?The Queen of Hearts appears in chapters 8, 9, 11 and 12 from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. She is one of the playing card characters Alice meets when she is finally able to enter the beautiful garden through the door in the hallway.
The Queen of Hearts rules over Wonderland and is a tyrant – violent, authoritative and dominant.
And this hits the nail on the head - she likes to play - by her own rules and only when she wins. And when she doesn't win by her own rules, well - off with their heads then!...or maybe suicide? Hmmm?She likes to play croquet with live flamingoes and hedgehogs as mallets and balls (but only when she wins, and by her own rules) and constantly orders the beheading of people when something isn’t to her Queen of Hearts by Disneyliking (although these orders apparently never are actually carried out).
Yikes and this book was written in 1865. History is a constant lesson to be learned again by each generation.She also has her own ideas about how trials should be conducted and is feared by all other Wonderland inhabitants because of her lack of patience and explosive character.