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Alice in Acidland

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Thomas Fensch
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New Century Books, Feb 1, 2002 - Literary Criticism - 152 pages
If you love Lewis Carroll, or if you remember the hippie days -- the flower power generation -- of the 1960s, you'll love Alice in Acidland. Was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland really a drug trip? Men who cleaned top hats in the days of Charles Dodgson's England used solutions of mercury, which caused brain damage: thus "mad as a hatter." Could the caterpillar really have been smoking something hallucinogenic in his waterpipe? Charles Dodgson may have passed Thomas DeQuincey on the streets of London -- after all -- this was generally the same era that DeQuincey wrote Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Originally published in 1970, Alice in Acidland suggests that Alice's experiences - -and the curiouser and curiouser animals that she encounters -- echo the LSD trips of the hippie 1960s - -and could easily have been visualized by Thomas DeQuincey and the mad hatters of Lewis Carroll's time . . . . The author suggests this all with tongue-firmly-in-cheek. We think.
  

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All it really did was point out places in the book where what Lewis Carroll wrote is somehow related to an acid trip. It wasn't really what I was expecting and I was disappointed. Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
9
Alices Adventures In Wonderland
25
2 The Pool of Tears
35
3 A CaucusRace and a Long Tale
44
4 The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
53
5 Advice from a Caterpillar
64
6 Pig and Pepper
74
7 The Mad Tea Party
85
8 The Queens Croquet Ground
97
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Thomas has published 17 nonfiction books.

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