{"id":1404,"date":"2015-11-20T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T22:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2015-11-20T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T22:15:43","slug":"emocode-final_rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/emocode-final_rabbit-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"EmoCode final_{Rabbit Hole}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbit Hole<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;down the rabbit hole&#8221;, a metaphor for adventure into the unknown, from its use in\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland<\/i><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">a slang expression for a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychedelic_experience\" target=\"_blank\">psychedelic experience<\/a>, from the same usage<\/span><\/li>\n<li>ARG, Alternative Reality Game(http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternate_reality_game#Unique_terminology) &#8211;<\/li>\n<li>TING, This is not a game<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1 id=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\">Literary nonsense<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>these supernatural phenomena are not nonsensical if they have a discernible logic supporting their existence<\/li>\n<li>has no system of logic, although it may imply the existence of an inscrutable one, just beyond our grasp.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Eating and devouring[<a title=\"Edit section: Eating and devouring\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8\">edit<\/a>]<\/h3>\n<p>Carina Garland notes how the world is &#8220;expressed via representations of food and appetite&#8221;, naming Alice&#8217;s frequent desire for consumption (of both food and words), her &#8216;Curious Appetites&#8217;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-26\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland#cite_note-26\">[26]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Often, the idea of eating coincides to make gruesome images. After the riddle \u201cWhy is a raven like a writing-desk?\u201d, the Hatter claims that Alice might as well say, \u201cI see what I eat\u2026I eat what I see\u201d and so the riddle\u2019s solution, put forward by Boe Birns,<sup id=\"cite_ref-27\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland#cite_note-27\">[27]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0could be that &#8220;A raven eats worms; a writing desk is worm-eaten&#8221;; this idea of food encapsulates idea of life feeding on life, for the worm is being eaten and then becomes the eater \u00a0\u2013 a horrific image of mortality.<\/p>\n<p>Nina Auerbach discusses how the novel revolves around eating and drinking which \u201cmotivates much of her [Alice&#8217;s] behaviour\u201d, for the story is essentially about things \u201centering and leaving her mouth\u201d<sup id=\"cite_ref-28\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland#cite_note-28\">[28]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The animals of Wonderland are of particular interest, for Alice&#8217;s relation to them shifts constantly because, as Lovell-Smith states, Alice&#8217;s changes in size continually reposition her in the food chain, serving as a way to make her acutely aware of the \u2018eat or be eaten\u2019 attitude that permeates Wonderland.<sup id=\"cite_ref-29\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland#cite_note-29\">[29]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0How Doth the Little Crocodile\n<ul>\n<li>\n<dl>\n<dd>How doth the little crocodile<\/dd>\n<dd>Improve his shining tail,<\/dd>\n<dd>And pour the waters of the Nile<\/dd>\n<dd>On every golden scale!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dd>How cheerfully he seems to grin,<\/dd>\n<dd>How neatly spreads his claws,<\/dd>\n<dd>And welcomes little fishes in<\/dd>\n<dd>With gently smiling jaws!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The effect of <span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>nonsense<\/strong><\/span> is often caused by an <em><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">excess of meaning<\/span><\/em>, rather than a lack of it.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbit Hole &#8220;down the rabbit hole&#8221;, a metaphor for adventure into the unknown, from its use in\u00a0Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland a slang expression for a\u00a0psychedelic experience, from the same usage&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/emocode-final_rabbit-hole\/\">Read The Rest &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127,118,116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}