curiouser and curioser

[rich]

fwiw..robert coover has a  great short story called Alice in the Time
of the Jabberwock
not my desc. but good as any:

Alice in the Time of the Jabberwock". Again, an aging character
returns to the fantasy world she visited as a youth. Alice, apparently
menopausal, flabby, incontinent, and otherwise afflicted with the ills
of the elderly, finds herself again in unchanging Wonderland. Coover
very cleverly depicts the characters of Wonderland from a slant
viewpoint, and very movingly but not sentimentally depicts Alice's
regrets and frustration.

in the A Child Again collection which is fab

read these but the best of the bunch is The Return of the Dead
Children--a pied piper story unlike any


rich

On 5/27/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Perhaps one might say, the Looking Glass World coexists with the tower
> in the sense that Rob Jackson recently articulated?
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> Rob Jackson wrote: "Ultimately, though, it's not a question of either/or.
> Both possibilities (coincidence, deliberate allusion) are valid, and are
> meant to be valid."
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> Just want to point out that however Alice-like Oedipa's guest
> gets, there is a crucial difference. Wonderland is distinct
> from the Carroll novel's "reality level" where Alice can more
> or less safely return after her adventure. Wonderland is an
> example of a "separate", "unsuspected" world whose existence
> Oedipa at one point considers necessary (p 86, Picador pbk).
> But Tristero is rather something that inseparably weaves
> itself into the curiouser-getting "reality level" of COL49 -
> this irrespective of whether she hallucinates it or not.
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