This was complete nonsenseAnd not nonsense like deliberate literary nonsense, I mean nonsense nonsense
>>25388226What’s the difference between “nonsense nonsense” and “literary nonsense,” O most venerable sir?
>>25388229It's just nonsense, you know what I meanLike nonsense
>>25388231What makes Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” “just nonsense” and not “literary nonsense,” do you think?
>>25388240I don't get it
>>25388246You are implying two categories of literature into which books can be sorted: “just nonsense” or “nonsense nonsense,” and “literary nonsense.” I am inquiring into how you concluded “Through the Looking-Glass” belongs to the former and not the latter.
>>25388256It's axiomatic
>>25388226It's all chess metaphors
>>25388226It's not nonsense. Alice was dreaming. Dreams have a language: Read Freud's interpretation of dreams. Or, just ask chatGPT what "Condensation" and "Displacement" mean in dreams. He mixes this with the idea of "going through a mirror". Everything is backwards in a mirror, thus everything was the opposite here. Not only that, but the objects in her room came alive.
>>25388903Wrong image...
>>25388226I'm sure you know Wonderlands was just logic puzzles he was making for his children so it's natural to think what sort of steps he took in "maturing" his work now that it was being put on be more eyes
>>25388226Jabberwocky nonsense
more like noncesense, amirite?LET'S GO ENGERLUND SCORE SAAM FACKING GORS
>>25388226The Red Queen thing about moving as quickly as you can just to stay in the same place was really clever
