Alice In Wonderland

The truth was revealed to me in a dream. Lewis Carroll never had time to write Alice in Wonderland. He never had the desire. It was Louis Comfort who made the damn thing. He was building his colored glass, when he thought of Alice. He documented a true story that My Grandmother always told me was fantasy. And now she’s quite elderly and slowly becoming a child again. Yet, she still doesn’t realize that Alice in Wonderland was for real.
Of course, this was before I knew who actually constructed Alice’s Adventures, and back before I knew Alice. Lewis Carroll was busy solving math problems with his literature, while Louis Comfort was becoming much more than another Tiffany Artist. This is even before my Grandmother’s time. This is back before the days of The Burning Man Festival. Back before Alice spiraled into the “Rabbit Hole,” which would eventually make her a household name. That “Rabbit Hole” wasn’t even a real “Rabbit Hole.” It was a glass menagerie constructed in the Tiffany Studio of Louis Comfort.
Louis actually built Alice’s Adventures out of glass, his own glass. He would piece together the stained glass for Alice. Of course, Alice was a different sort in those days. This was before fame forced Alice into the closet and out of the limelight. This was well before Alice started smoking three packs a day. Well before she developed a taste for low quality bourbon. Back before she started yelling at everyone, and her fantasy became replaced with wilted nerves.
Alice had many miles beneath her swollen feet and the lines in her face were cut with age. She had not aged gracefully. Her years on the road were tough years, with hard living, and bouncing from highways and hotels. Only her Adventures had continued untarnished, captured into the glass menagerie of Louis Comfort’s creation. Lewis Carroll had disappeared from the scene all together. Of course, he never had time for such nonsense. His fantasies never seemed to take him very far. Who would have thought you could make an adventure out of glass?