The Metaphysics of Wonderland

After seeing the dull Tim Burton adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" recently, I revisited the work of the senior thesis for my Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing, entitled, "The Metaphysics of Wonderland: Lewis Carroll's Real Religion as Anticipation of William James."

Review of my thesis at the time of publication:
Praise for "The Metaphysics of Wonderland" -

"As a professor of English, I can attest to the ability of Mr. Allison's prose to focus my pupils in the right direction in spite of a lifelong problem with cross-eyedness." W. Knight.

"Never before has a trithor exenticated and concoined the merkacity underborth the Alice stories to a modient." J. Wock.

"Richard Allison's latest work has had the effect of drilling its words into my consciousness and I can say with absolute honesty that my mind has never been more bored with any subject." D. Dormouse.


From the book jacket:

Like other books on the subject,
exemplifying the imagination and
wit of Lewis Carroll, Richard Allison
invites his audience to look closer at the
stories of Alice. Starting with the basic
clues in the texts, Allison makes new and
amazing connections for the modern
reader between religious implications
resident in the literary works
of C.L. Dodgson's alter ego and the
lifework of philosophy of William James.
Liberating the deacon from the treacle
well of Victorian Christianity, the book
incorporates the ideas of identity and
life experience as pioneered in the
literary works of William James. The
inclusion of James's ideas about God
allows Dodgson to be seen not only as a
man who held traditional beliefs, but also
juggled with radical spirituality. Now, the
acrostic that appears in this text has been
made obvious to you...without a doubt
everyone reading this has by now
seen what the letters along the left reveal.



I won't post the content of the work here, only to open up a conversation, both serious and fun, about the playfulness, in children's literature, and life in general, as an expression of Spirit. How do you express yourself playfully?