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?"