Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

It has been way too long since I have gotten back to my blog. Work has kept me really busy, but I was inspired and felt like writing tonight.

When the Tim Burton version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was coming out, I knew I had to see it. I loved watching the Disney film and felt that Tim Burton could work wonders with that template and make a much more adult-feeling version of the children's classic. But, like any bibliophile, I had to re-read the Carroll classic first. I was not surprised that it was full of the same strange characters, but I was happily surprised to find I had not remembered much of the story as Carroll imagined it.

Not only did Alice follow a white rabbit, but she also heard the story of Father William, spyed on a fish and a frog footman, and danced a lobster quadrille with the mock turtle and a gryphon. If you too forgot these wonderfully silly parts of the story I recommend you pick up a copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and re-read the strange children's classic.

I'm not sure if Carroll intended this as a story about the dangers of drugs and drinking on the youth, as Jefferson Airplane thought. But I know there is more to it than a quirky and nonsensical story. Maybe the short afterward written as the thoughts of Alice's older sister are the true intentions of the whole story. Maybe, it is just a plea for grown-ups to remember what it was like to be a child.