Alice fell down the rabbit hole. That’s how the saying goes, at least. But Alice wasn’t pushed; she didn’t even trip. In Lewis Caroll’s original children’s novel, Alice is so fascinated by the sight of a white rabbit retrieving a pocket watch from his waistcoat that she leaps to her feet to go after it, choosing to follow the rabbit into his burrow. The funny thing about this part of the story is that, until the rabbit takes out his watch, Alice is unfazed by the sight of the hare. A rabbit in full formal attire, prattling on about his tardiness? Stranger things have happened.
But the watch, that pesky timepiece, something about it sparks Alice’s attention, so much so that it draws her into a portal to another place. This other world looks a lot like hers, but something about it is different. Everyone is acting very peculiar and things don’t make perfect sense. But no matter how unnerving that is, Alice remains fascinated. She forges forward on her quest into the unknown, desperate to understand her new reality. No use trying to fight it. Things may never go back to normal.
