Each day’s news makes yesterday’s, which itself pushed beyond anything ever thought possible, pale into nothingness by comparison. Unthinkable things are now a daily occurrence. We could make grocery lists from the impossible things piling up around us.
We’re through the looking glass, and down the rabbit hole, led by the March Hare. He’s very, very late trying to right the wrongs of 2016, but very determined to get there.
Alice, pure of heart, struggles to make sense of it all, confused and threatened, but bravely ventures on, wherever the path leads through this mad world.
The denizens of the chaos mock her and misdirect her, baffle her with riddles, and answer her earnest questions with nonsensical gibberish. But they’e all at cross-purposes and can’t get out of each others’ way.
The Queen of Hearts believes she’s quite popular and beloved. But her vicious, random orders scare her subjects into quaking at her every utterance, lest they be next to lose their head.
The Tea Party goes on and on. Time has stopped for them. They are always repeating the same moment, and always the same mistakes, but laughing uproariously each time.
The Caterpillar sits atop his mushroom and inhales deeply yet again from the foul nastiness in his hookah. He pontificates what he thinks is very profound, but he alone can fathom its mystery.
Bill the Lizard makes people believe he is hard at work, investigating the weird goings on, and even serves as a juror to pass judgement on those who wrong the Queen of Hearts. But his writing leaves no mark, and “poof” he is gone when a girl sneezes.
And always there, but often not seen, or seen only by his smile as he fades away yet again, is the Cheshire Cat. Many think he is the wisest one in the land. But he keeps his secrets to himself, and amuses himself by confounding all those around him.
As the peculiar logic of this strange land reveals itself bit by bit, Alice grows confident that there is nothing here for her to fear. As soon as it all makes sense, she will find her way home.