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Alice in Wonderland, pushing drugs
*wind&fire*
post Nov 13 2004, 11:02 PM
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To my opinion i believe that the novel "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carrol was all about drugs.

To support my theory i have the folowing;

1. Alice eats food and drinks things that make her grow and shrink.
2. The blatant use of some sort of weed used by the Caterpillar to which he becomes something else and sees pretty colours
3. a floating cat....

need i say more....
 
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post Nov 13 2004, 11:05 PM
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You can't forget the white rabbit.
 
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post Nov 13 2004, 11:10 PM
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blink.gif This theory's been brought up before, hasn't it?
 
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post Nov 14 2004, 12:43 AM
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that must be why i never liked it. hehe

seriously, though, i've always hated the movie. sept for the tale of the walrus and the carpenter. that was cool. i hate the rest, though. grrr
 
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post Nov 14 2004, 01:04 AM
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well, yes, but i love that movie
 
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post Nov 14 2004, 04:26 AM
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oh yeh the wlarus and the carpenter...

he had the munchies, he was high he couldnt help himself....
 
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post Nov 14 2004, 08:54 AM
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Well the Wizard of Oz was about McKinley's economic policy.
 
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post Nov 14 2004, 09:00 AM
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anihoo happy.gif i love the movie.... tongue.gif
 
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post Nov 14 2004, 09:11 AM
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Lewis Carroll used drugs, he was a pedophile, and a few of his works are influenced by those two.

I don't think the novel was about drugs, but it showed many instances in which those substances were at work.

I think Alice in Wonderland was mainly about his beloved little Alice, growing up and confused by all the lessons she's been taught by adults. Her perspectives that he takes are brought to an extreme by, again of course, the influence of drugs.


Through the Looking Glass.. the somewhat sequel deals more with sexual overtones as Alice grows older..
 
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post Nov 14 2004, 10:08 PM
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I don't think the novel was about drugs, but it showed many instances in which those substances were at work.

Yeah. ^

It most likely wasn't about drugs.. but because of his history, I guess it sort of sounded like it was? I don't know, I really haven't read it in a long time.. but I guess a lot of it's supposed to be magical and whatever. tongue.gif
 
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post Nov 14 2004, 11:32 PM
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http://www.megabrands.com/carroll/forf.html
 
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post Nov 15 2004, 07:09 AM
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That site is questionable o_O

There were other drugs that could have been used besides LSD, opium the most likely. Ever read Alexander Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo? Explicit use of drugs there in various parts. Ken Kesey and his works were spurred by the intake of drugs. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one I've read and that too has an obvious influence of drugs.

As for the pedophile part, it's like saying MJ's not a pedophile. jk. I'll have to get back to you with evidence, but I think I've read in my research of Carroll that he fell in love with Alice.
 
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post Nov 15 2004, 03:53 PM
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we should all just start making aligations about the secret meaning of movies.

e.g. citizen kane was about the last supper,
who framed roger rabbit was based on the lindenberg baby

how's that sound?

and i more than likley spelled lindenberg wrong.
 
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post Nov 15 2004, 04:55 PM
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theres a throry about the puritans being delusional from halucinatory lsd effects of moldy rye, that my have been responisble for the salem witch trials *shrug*
 
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post Nov 16 2004, 12:01 AM
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Well, I always sort of thought it was based on drugs. But, wasn't Alice dreaming in that book? It waas her imagination.
 
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post Nov 19 2004, 04:19 PM
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that explains why im on so many drugs now, i watched that movie 24/7[/scarcasm] ph34r.gif
 
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post Nov 21 2004, 12:40 AM
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hahahahahahaaa
i heard the same thing said for the seven dwarves from Snow White.
like..theyre the stages for some sort of drug (heroin i think?)
 
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post Nov 22 2004, 01:41 AM
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^ yeh she might of OD on the apple...
 
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post Nov 22 2004, 04:59 PM
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QUOTE(AzNbUbZ @ Nov 22 2004, 1:41 AM)
^ yeh she might of OD on the apple...

YOU CAN GET BONG FROM AN APPLE

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post Nov 22 2004, 06:59 PM
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QUOTE(my_papaya @ Nov 22 2004, 2:59 PM)
YOU CAN GET BONG FROM AN APPLE

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you can get a bong outta of a lot of stuff

*cough*cokecan*cough*
 
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post Nov 22 2004, 07:15 PM
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my point exactly
 
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post Nov 23 2004, 02:33 PM
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It's just all thoughts...
 
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post Nov 25 2004, 04:39 PM
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i just recently bought that book...
i find nothing weird about it.
 
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post Nov 26 2004, 12:13 AM
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Well, you know what they say about "Puff the Magic Dragon" =P
 
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post Nov 26 2004, 08:52 AM
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QUOTE(my_papaya @ Nov 23 2004, 7:59 AM)
YOU CAN GET BONG FROM AN APPLE

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shifty.gif

some one as been creative.. or maybe just desperate....
 
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