In a curious bit of "synchronicity", following the Inception, KQKn dream connection, I stumbled on this in Agatha Christie's Passenger to Frankfurt (not one of her best):
"Pasteboard,"..."Like Alice in Wonderland.  The cards, the pasteboard cards all rising up in the air. Flying about. Kings and queens and knaves..."..."You mean--what do you mean exactly?"..."I mean it isn't real.  It's make-believe.  The whole damn thing is make-believe."..."All dressed up playing parts, putting on a show."  (p111 in my pb)

I love little moments like this where totally unconnected things connect suddenly within the span of a week.  Almost makes me think there is a pattern behind the world just like VN says.

Aside from this I just finished reading Stephanie Merkel's article in N Studies #1 concerning KQKn & Commedia Dell' Arte (excellent) and wondered if anyone has looked at possible connections between Alice In Wonderland and KQKn or traced allusions to it in other VN works.  I think Appel does in Annotated L, but the fairy tale themes and dream imagery are so pervasive this seems a fruitful avenue in light of VN's translation of Alice.


 KQKn, 1st paragraph of  
Chapter 2?

"...Another awakening, but perhaps not yet the final one. ...this is a  
false awakening, being merely the next layer of your dream, as if you  
were rising up...Is this the final reality, or just a new deceptive  
dream?"


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