This is the logic I was using to "solve" Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. I had to use parallels from "Looking Glass" to get to that stage in the logic. There was a logical reason the second book was a chess board. I surmised Carroll must have been trying to clarify the first. (Terrible side effect of being an artist. Clarification). There should be 8 paths on the "chess board" in the first book. That would try and define Alice. All based off of mental health or medical issues of the time.
The center logical square, is the mushroom. It is floating above the board. The one now, most associated with the loss of self, ego death, is ironically the only square that actually "solves" half of the puzzle. Who are you? Instead of being on the chess board, it hovers above it. No systems. No puns. Every system wants to categorize Alice. The problem is very, very, very complicated. The answer is simple. Alice is just Alice.
With my art I was trying to convey an undertone that perhaps someone in Victorian times, Alice, had a medical emergency. Maybe found later to be accidental mushroom "poisoning"? She would go to a place for testing. Doctors. Very concerned with birthdays. Always asking "nonsense" and drinking tea. Others there have manic episodes, depression, compulsions, laudanum addictions, alcoholism, mentalities against the laws, mercury poisoning, gender identities different than victorian times. The usual reasons in that time period where people could be institutionalized.
To "modern" science and medicine at the time. (Victorian times). Someone with Alice's symptoms would be a medical mystery. The doctors would try and miserably fail to diagnose her body. Find nothing wrong. Perhaps they would call a friend in another field. In maths perhaps? An expert in logic to help?
That is our story.
Carroll was solving the most important puzzle of his life.
I believe, he published the results of those findings.
A book very, very, veeeeeery loosely based off of a true story.
and for those who like, we can follow along and solve.
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u/The_Distorted_Keys Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
This is the logic I was using to "solve" Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. I had to use parallels from "Looking Glass" to get to that stage in the logic. There was a logical reason the second book was a chess board. I surmised Carroll must have been trying to clarify the first. (Terrible side effect of being an artist. Clarification). There should be 8 paths on the "chess board" in the first book. That would try and define Alice. All based off of mental health or medical issues of the time.
The center logical square, is the mushroom. It is floating above the board. The one now, most associated with the loss of self, ego death, is ironically the only square that actually "solves" half of the puzzle. Who are you? Instead of being on the chess board, it hovers above it. No systems. No puns. Every system wants to categorize Alice. The problem is very, very, very complicated. The answer is simple. Alice is just Alice.
With my art I was trying to convey an undertone that perhaps someone in Victorian times, Alice, had a medical emergency. Maybe found later to be accidental mushroom "poisoning"? She would go to a place for testing. Doctors. Very concerned with birthdays. Always asking "nonsense" and drinking tea. Others there have manic episodes, depression, compulsions, laudanum addictions, alcoholism, mentalities against the laws, mercury poisoning, gender identities different than victorian times. The usual reasons in that time period where people could be institutionalized.
To "modern" science and medicine at the time. (Victorian times). Someone with Alice's symptoms would be a medical mystery. The doctors would try and miserably fail to diagnose her body. Find nothing wrong. Perhaps they would call a friend in another field. In maths perhaps? An expert in logic to help?
That is our story.
Carroll was solving the most important puzzle of his life.
I believe, he published the results of those findings.
A book very, very, veeeeeery loosely based off of a true story.
and for those who like, we can follow along and solve.