down the rabbit-hole

[darstellen]

Title: down the rabbit-hole
Disclaimer: For better or for worse, this is mine. Alice in Wonderland, of course, was written by Lewis Carroll.
Form: 5 x 100 (series of five 100-word blocks)
Notes: Written along the lines of anon_j_anon's Panopticon, but this is nowhere near that in quality, and just a little experiment in setting text and using certain

Comments

[zigsternenstaub]

The ever-changing manner in which you wrote this simulates the vagaries of Carrol's Wonderland itself, but rather than recreating the whimsy, it recreates the heart-pounding confusion that verges on the edge of fear. Very, very fascinating....

[darstellen]

Thank you, my dear! ♥ You've illuminated a side of this that I hadn't really given much thought to (being blind as a bat!), but that is indeed omnipresent in this piece -- fear. The rabbit-hole is a kind of metaphor for reading (on the internet), which may explain how that comes in . . .

[anon_j_anon]

I descended.
Down (down) down [watch for the error, error, error]
Following form.
Hit
:
:
;
rockbottom

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Rock bottom
[fascinating, the hermeneutic circle with a computer]
(how stunning), hitrockbottom!
and leaning List-Tened to the

echo

echo
[loops]
ehco
oche
[spool]
oche

ohce
eciov ym fo

of your voice, Alice. [follow the poem through, through through]

[mottob ot mottob noicelfer mi] Ecila ,ereh emoc dna eticer

¡ON!
oscillating electromagnetic wave
¡SI!

evaw citengamortcele gnitallicso
through the looking glass
on both sides now

net
as the medium
of a circle
ring around the rosy with the Mad Hatter
¿dam?

locopoco poquito mosquito loquito

¡mira!

tothetop
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Through the poem
Up (down) up!
Dednecsa
Did I (r)eveal?
¿¡html!?

[darstellen]

wH!†é ®Åßß!†

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ʇıqqɐɹ ǝʇıɥʍ

!eureka¡

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"Many things were revealed to me down the rabbit-hole," said Alice,
"often in lists and diagrams, maps that showed me the way;
"often in flashes of insight that I didn't immediately understand
"that nonetheless left their imprint on my mind,
"like fruit left on branches, ripening for later harvest;
"often in segami drawkcab tsom eht.
"I now know how to describe the workings of my eye
"and how to read the other side of a mirror.
"And that's only the tip of the iceberg:
"I know there's much that I missed and much more to explore.
"Would I go back? In a heartbeat."

[danahid]

Fascinating. I lack the skills the comment in poetry or comment with literary criticism. I am in awe of the mood you achieve in this. And the ending is perfect:

It's become as real a world as your own.

Sometimes, you almost wish you could stay. . .

YES.

[darstellen]

Oh, I thank you for these words! The ending worried me most, you know; I feared it wouldn't work. There is no need to comment in poetry or with literary criticism. Your thoughts alone, which are always insightful -- are a gift. ♥

[ansketil_rose]

WOW. I did not expect that - and I'm so annoyed I missed this while I was on hiatus! I love the analogy and the format. I'm... stunned... that was so cool.

I don't know what this is. Neither do you. Not that I have any way of knowing what you know, but let's just say I can imagine the look of confusion on your face. The light from your big, white screen was shivering

That moment? Pure awesome.

[darstellen]

WOW. I did not expect that - and I'm so annoyed I missed this while I was on hiatus! I love the analogy and the format. I'm... stunned... that was so cool.

Please don't be annoyed! (I'm currently annoyed that I haven't had the chance to read your latest SW piece, nor had the chance to leave a proper comment/analysis on your V/P "fluff" piece, which in my mind was so much more than fluff and indeed brilliant.)

I'm so glad you liked the format! It took a while to realise that this was a piece about reading on the internet and epistemological uncertainty in general as well as about Alice. ♥ ♥