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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
You make some excellent points. However, I think that the one character who is on a level with the creations in the “Alice”books is the Gardiner who has a mad frenzy reminiscent of the Mad tea party. His “song” ihas that same quality of unexpected nonsense thar we encounter in the verses in the earlier books. The Gardiner scenes are among the few moments where Carroll supplants Dodgson.
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With the gardener (and, I think, with the opening scene as well) it was possible to suppose you were back in Wonderland. At the time I was wondering if that was really a good thing - did we need another Wonderland? The question became irrelevant as those aspects quickly faded out of the story. Even though the conclusion revisited the nonsense aspect, it did not regain that Wonderland feel.