presumption This would have been a fun one to have seen and then commented on, but regarding this bit – "Alice in Wonderland" does offer its share of slender pleasures: Wasikowska plays Alice as bright and unassuming, and watching her is never a chore, even when the story devolves into a "Girls can do cool stuff, too!" empowerment tale. (Stephanie Zacharek, “Tim Burton’s Alice in Underland,” Salon, 4 March 2010) -- I'm sorry to hear she plays it unassuming, mostly because I'm tired of unassuming people being praised -- SPEAK UP, DAMN "YOU"! DON'T SQUEAK ABOUT LIKE A MOUSE: PRESUME! PRESUME! -- but also because it's a significant deviance from the Alice I very much liked in the book. Alice was notable as much (if not in fact, more) for her default inclination TO PRESUME on the tilted creatures that keep frothing up to spook at her with unsteadying strangeness, as it was to accommodate and defer to them, and as a result she is often shown...