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| Illustration from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Sir John Tenniel |
A being with an open mind encounters the prescriptions and
chaos, the logic and nonsense of the world into which she falls. The natural and constructed, formless
or structured phenomena she finds are perhaps all the makings of her own mind.
Friendly, sinister, dark, mysterious, whacky, intense—the characters are
really all aspects or parts of Alice, and conversely all characters are
versions of Alice as well.
She approaches each person or moment with freshness and
sense of aliveness, drawn by a thirst to know, or curiousity which is not
always satisfied: “Curious and curiouser!”
The physical actions of the story are dreamlike. Reflections
in the mirror confirm existence. (I see that I am me!). But the journey on the
giant chessboard through garden,
palace, beach, woods reflects the
serendipity of nature as well as the maverick schemes and structures of
generations past and present. (I
see that I am nobody and somebody too!)
—Margaret Larlham
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