Blogs that pick up where the Saylia Alice in Wonderland podcast leaves off — the logic hiding under the nonsense, the chapters that read completely differently at thirty, the Cheshire Cat's four pieces of accidental life advice, and every place a Victorian children's book is hiding in the things you already quote and watch.
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Lewis Carroll taught mathematics at Oxford for 26 years. Read Alice in Wonderland knowing that and the nonsense reorganizes itself: every weird image has a rule under it. Here's the engineered logic hiding in a children's book.
June 7, 2026 · 8 min read
At nine, Alice in Wonderland is a girl having a weird day. At thirty, it's a precise account of losing control of your body, your identity, and the rules — disguised as a children's book. Here's what you missed the first time.
June 7, 2026 · 8 min read
He's in the book for barely ten pages, but the Cheshire Cat owns the lines people put on their forearms. Carroll wrote four pieces of usable life advice into one minor character — the fork in the road, “we're all mad here,” the grin without a cat, and refusing the shape.
June 7, 2026 · 8 min read
You quote Alice in Wonderland constantly without noticing — every time you say “down the rabbit hole” or “red pilled.” Here's the trail from an 1865 children's book to the Matrix, a 1967 rock anthem, every portal story since, and the names in your cryptography textbook.
June 7, 2026 · 9 min read