Don"t stand there chattering to yourself like that," Humpty Dumpty said, looking at her for the first time, "but tell me your name and your business." "My NAME is Alice, but-" "It"s a stupid enough name!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "MUST a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: "MY name means the shape I am-and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost." Lewis Carroll"s anti-Alice sequel to Alice in Wonderland. Published as a children"s book in 1871, its imagery and themes make it far too complex and too reflective of the real world to really be intended for children.