"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Yes, I know. The first time Alice hallucinates being smaller and larger, she drinks. The second time, she eats a mushroom. Whatever you're thinking right now, serious scholars have explored in depth. You have an article here, something else here, and something more here. I'm...
While Alice is conversing with the caterpillar, she's prompted to recite verses, for reasons that are beyond comprehension. She's complaining that she can't remember things and she can't keep the same size, all symptoms of being dreaming, and this is the solution the caterpillar offers:...
This is going to be a long one, because we've finally arrived at Chapter V (yeah, we're still just at chapter V) and we meet one of the most beloved characters in the tale: the caterpillar. To be fair, as it often happens with Carroll, the...
Last Sunday we met Bill, who goes down the chimney and comes up the chimney while Alice is stuck into the white rabbit's house. Since the problem of a giant Alice could not be resolved by sweeping her up the chimney, here comes the next...
While Alice is stuck inside the rabbit's house, the main attempt of "resolving" the situation is made by invoking the help of another character: Bill. “Where’s the other ladder?—Why, I hadn’t to bring but one. Bill’s got the other—Bill! Fetch it here, lad!—Here, put ’em up...
Last week we left with Alice all grown up inside the Rabbit's house and now we're in for one of the most iconic scenes in the book, when Alice breaks one of the windows with her hand and reaches down into the Rabbit's garden in...
Chapter IV of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland features a new meeting between Alice and the White Rabbit, who's still worried about being late with the Duchess (a character that's usually blended with the Queen of Hearts). It's another famous growing up / shrinking down scene,...
It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there was a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Last week, we fell with Alice...
It took me three Sundays to get here, between falling Alices, psychedelic corridors, glass tables, drink-me bottles and eat-me cakes. Today we properly step out from chapter 1, even if we already did that (the scenes where Alice grows up are, in fact, in Chapter...
If you ever doubt about the suggestive power of Alice in Wonderland, just wait for a minute and consider that we're still in chapter 1 and we have already been drowned in pictures and interpretations of the striking visual images Carroll concocts in those pages. Drink...
