Staying bare

What would you say about Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?

Of course, I will tell you what I would say of Alice's _It is... Just a children's perspective of the adult world, pure bareness, gullibility: adult (intellectuals) interpretations are insoluble contradictions, and cannot be taken seriously.

"Our England is a garden that is full of stately views", said Rudyard Kipling. And English childhood is invariably attached to it: well-familiar games outside, memories engaged to green afternoons as well as to dark and cloudy sunsets crossed by frightful thunderstorms, pictures all embroided with smells and textures.

Though completely ignored, Alice has a senior sister, of whom Carroll says: "So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality -the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds; the rattling teacups would change to twinkling sheep-bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy; and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the confused clamors of the busy-farm yard, while the lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Muck's Turtle heavy sobs".

This is Alice's dream, the fantasy world of a English child, a distortion from the real frame.

There are a few elements that appear continuously all across Alice's: eating (food and drink, especially cakes, tarts and sweets and sugar); changes or disguises (sizes, animal composition); the nessesity of being well-manner and not to get sulky (this universal word appears in a number of occasions); the challenge against the physical world as we know it; the omnipresence of being terrible denied, questioned or corrected.

The adult world is portrait in Alice's through the eyes of children: the presence of ever-lasting adult parties and reunions (tea parties, etc.); judges, hats, nannies, cooks, etc.

Even more! All the answers Alice gets throught her voyage from all of a variety of creatures are incomprehensible, as all adult answers are probably for children. Remember those infant days of yours when you watch Jack on TV asking one closed question to Dick and Dick never answered "yes" or "no", and that you never grasped a bit of the meaning of Dick's reply?

Dare you to say "yes" or "no" when interrogated. Too much to ask, as it is against natural human history?

Stay bare, dare you!