Alice's Adventures in Wonderland selected passages.

Change is funny until it begins happening to the self. Growing larger or smaller is less bewildering than not knowing who one is becoming.

A strange world becomes less frightening once strangeness is admitted as the rule. Madness feels different when everyone is already living inside it.

Orderly advice sounds funniest in a world that has abandoned order. Seriousness loses its footing when justice itself has become nonsense.

When judgment comes before understanding, fairness has already been lost. The absurdity is playful, but the warning is sharp.

Change is most unsettling when it reaches the self before the mind can explain it. We may wake up altered before we know what has happened.

Power becomes absurd when it mistakes anger for justice. A command can sound childish and still do real harm.

Growing older sounds like both a relief and a sentence. Childhood imagines adulthood through the lessons it cannot escape.

Arbitrary power is frightening partly because it becomes routine. When threats are everywhere, absurdity stops being harmless.

Wonderland makes even simple categories feel unstable. The self becomes harder to hold when every question changes shape.

Even strange companions can become dear when the world is confusing. Farewell hurts most when we did not expect attachment to grow.