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Re: Help me like Alice, please.

by Katrine

9/15/2020, 11:21 AM

I can only speak for myself but I think Alice is an acquired taste. It has always given me “holier than thou”, goody two-shoes feeling. Sickly sweet, cutesy cute. Kinda like Mary makes me feel. Annoying.

But I’m warming slightly up to it. I don’t hate it anymore and now I’m mostly neutral. I recognise that it has qualities I normally like in other names and I think it would probably just take a story with a character that I’d fall in love with for me to be positive about it.

Edit: I don’t know if this was any help ;) My point was: It often helps me if I encounter someone admirable, fictional or real, with the name.

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- Manipura (glaucous)

9/15/2020, 10:59 PM

I think I get that "goody two-shoes, sickly sweet" vibe from it, as well.

- Raven Briar (Constant) +2

9/15/2020, 12:41 PM

The description of "“holier than thou”, goody two-shoes feeling" is how I feel about Charlotte, but Charlotte simultaneously feels spoiled and precocious in an annoyingly precious sort of way.

- Katrine +1

9/15/2020, 1:21 PM

“Spoiled and precocious in an annoyingly precious sort of way”. That’s spot on how I’ve always felt about Alice. And now that I’ve thought about it so much, I’m starting to dislike it again ;D

Oh well. So much for finally reaching “I’m neutral on Alice“. Lol

- Raven Briar (Constant)

9/15/2020, 1:43 PM

Come to think of it, there was a period were I wasn't as fond of Alice. It was due to the book "Go Ask Alice," but there are so many other Alice's in literature, history, and public affairs that it faded away. It might be my imagination, but it seems like there are a lot of authors named Alice.

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