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Well the best things I have learned about alice in wonderland is from kingdom hearts and jefferson airplane. Actually I didn’t learn anything from the first one but according to the second one you should ask alice when she’s ten feet tall about chasing rabbits and do like the door knob says and feed your head.

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erm i dunno maybe it means something like expect the unexpected or something like that…or maybe it has no particular meaning and its just there and a space filler :)

Not everything is what it appears to be.

Personally, I believe that Mr. Lewis knew that the book would be analysed and torn to shreds by people trying to find meaning in every single part of it, even though it is essentially a children’s book. And I think he put in a few little tricks like that just to puzzle people and make them come up with ridiculous theories as to why they are there.

I don’t mean that you are tearing it to shreds, by the way! I just mean that some people do. And I wasn’t giving out about people finding meaning in it. I think it’s great to do that. I just think he had a laugh at our expense by including some things which had no meaning at all.

Children usually don’t put things back to shelves unless they were told to or promised a candy if they did it. So it is very unusual for a child to do such thing, she wants to act like an adult. She is in a strange place she never saw before and for all children that is frightening of the unknown. She might have felt scared if she wouldn’t put that back to the shelf, it might have created problems later on.

Mr. Dodgson was a mathematician as well, which should be taken into consideration.

Interestingly, the phrase, “orange jam” is composed of 9 letters. But the phrase is divided into “orange”(6) and “jam”(3), both multiples of 3. There are 4 vowels and 5 consonants total in these two words.

The questions I would look into, if I were to delve into this thoroughly, would relate to physics theories around the time. Alice goes down a rabbit hole to a different reality. This later comes to the science world as the idea of the Einstein-Rossen Bridges (e.g. wormholes).

I would first ask, whether the shape of the jar is a metaphor for anything else? (e.g. space, circular=time, space within matter, etc.)

Then I would ask what would be significant about an “orange” over any other circular fruit? Was there anything around the time when this was written, that dealt with oranges? Why jam, why not marmalade or something that would be a more appropriate spread for an Englishman?

Deductive logic, should eventually get you there. But, the jar is empty, and the irony could be that symbolism is sometimes empty as well.

Good luck.

hannah.lenno wrote:
because neither is made of cheese

What does cheese have to do with anything? I am completely lost, or you are blathering pointlessly.