P.S.  Re: Carolyn's Carrolllian analogy, in my essay, "Executing Sentences in Lolita and the Law," I also argue that the trial in Wonderland is the model for the ending of Lolita--an unresolved criminal investigation or legal trial that transgresses boundaries between narrative levels, leaving the reader as ultimate arbiter--as well as for the ending of other novels, such as Despair and Bend Sinister.