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- a situation in which you become so interested in a subject or an activity that you cannot stop trying to find out about it or doing it: I know when I read a WWI novel I inevitably end up down a rabbit hole researching the war. You can kind of find yourself getting sucked into various attention rabbit holes.
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Alice impulsively follows the Rabbit and tumbles down the deep hole that resembles a well, falling slowly for a long time. As she floats down, she notices that the sides of the well are covered with cupboards and shelves.
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The White Rabbit. The frantic, harried Wonderland creature...
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Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit Hole Chapter 2: The Pool of Tears...
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Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit Hole Chapter 2: The Pool of Tears...
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The White Rabbit pulls out a pocket watch, exclaims that he...
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The rabbit–hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
- Chapter 1: Down The Rabbit-Hole
- Chapter 2: The Pool of Tears
- Chapter 3: A Caucus-Race and A Long Tale
- Chapter 4: The Rabbit Sends in A Little Bill
- Chapter 5: Advice from A Caterpillar
- Chapter 6: Pig and Pepper
- Chapter 7: A Mad Tea-Party
- Chapter 8: The Queen’s Croquet-Ground
- Chapter 9: The Mock Turtle’s Story
- Chapter 10: The Lobster Quadrille
Alice is sitting with her sister on the riverbank and is very bored. Suddenly she sees a White Rabbit running by her. It is wearing a waistcoat and takes a watch out of it, while muttering to himself ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’. Alice gets very curious and follows him down his rabbit-hole. The rabbit-hole suddenly goes straight down and Al...
Suddenly Alice finds herself growing and she continues growing until she reaches the ceiling. Now she is able to get the key from the table, but again she is too big to fit through the door. This situation makes her cry and she cries until there is a large pool all round her, which reaches half down the hall. The White Rabbit returns, now splendidl...
As all creatures are wet they start thinking of a way to get dry. The Mouse tries telling them the ‘driest story’ he knows, but as this doesn’t work they decide to have a Caucus-race. The Dodo draws a circle in which they all start running at random. After half an hour they are quite dry and the race is over. The Dodo decides that everyone has won ...
The White Rabbit returns, looking for his fawn and gloves. Alice wants to help but finds that the hall has vanished. When the Rabbit sees Alice he mistakes her for his maid, Mary Ann, and orders her to go home and get him a pair of gloves and a fan. Alice enters his house and finds another bottle marked ‘Drink me’. She drinks it, hoping it makes he...
The Caterpillar asks Alice who she is. She answers that she doesn’t know because she has changed so many times that day. A brief conversation follows, during which Alice gets a little irritated because the Caterpillar is rather crusty and keeps making very short remarks. Alice tells him that she can’t remember things as she used to, so the Caterpil...
As Alice stands in front of the house, a fish-like footman comes out of the forest, knocks on the door and a frog-like footman opens. The fish-footman delivers an invitation from the Queen for the Duchess to play croquet and leaves. The frog-footman sits on the ground outside the house. Alice walks to the door and knocks, but the footman tells her ...
Alice sees a large table set out under a tree in front of the house. The March Hare and the Mad Hatter are having tea at it and a Dormouse is sitting between them, fast asleep. Alice sits down in a chair, although the Hare and Hatter tell her there’s no room. The Hare offers her some wine, but there is only tea. When she protests that it isn’t civi...
Alice comes upon a rose-tree with white roses. Three gardeners are painting them red. Alice asks them why and they explain that they planted the white roses by mistake and the Queen will cut off their heads for that. So they try to hide the mistake by painting them. At that moment the procession of the Queen arrives, which is made up almost entirel...
Alice walks off with the Duchess, who is in a very good mood now. She keeps attaching arbitrary morals to everything and seems to agree with everything Alice says. Alice politely tries to tolerate her presence, although she keeps digging her sharp chin in to her shoulder. Then the Queen suddenly appears. The Duchess takes off and Alice returns to t...
The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle explain to Alice what sort of dance a Lobster Quadrille is and start dancing around her while the Mock Turtle sings the words. When they’re finished they ask Alice to tell her story. She tells them about her curious day and when she gets to the part about her repeating `You are old, Father William’ to the Caterpillar...
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.
- Lewis Carroll
- 1865
The Rabbit Hole is the deep tunnel that Alice uses to get to Wonderland... “The rabbit hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself...
For a moment, the rabbit doesn’t strike Alice as odd at all, until she realizes that she has never seen a rabbit in a waistcoat or with a pocket-watch before. Instinctively, she follows him across a field and, before she has a chance to think, down a rabbit hole.
