"We're all mad here."
...In wonderland, that is. In Lewis Carroll's short novel, "The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland", a plethora of strange and utterly impossible characters and situations are introduced. A mad world is what Alice, a young and polite girl, has entered. After curiosity got the best of her, Alice stumbled into a world much different (and much smaller) than her own, in which she met beings who all seemed to be parodies of the world's people. Through Alice's adventures, she experienced encounters that were usually rude, always vague, occasionally educational, and all extremely strange. She began to become frustrated with her ever-changing size (don't all teenagers?) and surroundings that were oh-so confusing. After crying all of the tears she possessed, playing croquet with the queen, encountering a hookah-smoking caterpillar, and learning a lesson or two; Alice awoke from all of this, which was only a peculiar, but vivid dream.
“Do you think I've gone round the bend?"
"I'm afraid so. You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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