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.