Down the Rabbit Hole | Follow the White Rabbit ~On Hold~ Down the Rabbit Hole Follow the White Rabbit ~On Hold~ Down the Rabbit Hole SO! You must like Willow. I mean love him so much. Just his cute personality. But isn't Alexander a cutie. ~Alexander's Pov~ "Good morning" I yawned looking at the large dog that lay at the end of my bed. "Ready to go take some pictures buddy?" I asked looking down at my dog, Lucifer. He cocked his head to the side happily and hopped of my bed. "Well lets take some pictures boy" I smiled hopping out of bed. I got dressed quickly, grabbed my camera and darted out the door with Lucifer. The sound of clicking filled the small meadow I had been sitting in. I looked over at Lucifer who was laying at the base of a large tree that a squirrel had previously run up. I laughed quietly watching Lucifer bark foolishly at the large tree. I smiled seeing a small white rabbit but then realized the rabbit looked weird. It was hopping in my direction but it was wearing a trench coat. It jumped lading on me then somehow changing form. It was now human. "Hello Alex" the now human boy smiled.

"It's Alexander" I stopped him. "Okay?" he questioned. My mind went blank as I thought about a story my grandmother once told me. ~Flashback~ "Grandmother will you tell me one of your stories?" I asked laying in bed. "Okay Alexander" She smiled. "Once their was a little girl named Alice. One day she was laying in a meadow when a white rabbit ran by in a trench coat. The white rabbit was holding a pocket watch and yelling 'I'm late!' Alice followed the rabbit and it led her to a hole in the ground. She leaned over to far and fell down the hole. When she realized she was falling slowly Alice took the time to look around. Alice noticed that the dirt walls of the hole were covered with shelves. Before Alice knew it she had hit the ground. Alice walked down a long row of doors turning the knob of each one she passed until she stopped in front of a long red curtain. She pulled the curtain back revealing a small door. The door was only big enough for a cat or maybe a rabbit to fit thro-" She stopped talking. I looked over seeing that she fell asleep. I smiled. ~The present~ "Why are you sitting on me?" I questioned the boy.

"I'm sorry Alexander, I didn't properly introduce myself . My name is Willow Grean and you're coming with me to Wasteland" I looked at him shocked. "No you mean Wonderland?" I asked looking up a Willow. "It's not Wonderland anymore Alexander. It lost all its wonder a long time ago" He stopped talking and just grabbed my hand and pulling my to the large tree. He stopped at a hole. Still gripping my hand he dove down the hole pulling me down with him. As we fell down the hole I noticed all the shelves had been broken and the cans that belonged in them weren't there. Willow's feet hit the ground as he caught me in his arms. I dug my face in his neck scared out of my mind. I pulled my head out of his neck looking up at him. Willow was smiling. His smile was wicked yet seductive. I couldn't help but stare up at him. Willow's eyes were focused on a tattered red curtain. He started walking slowly towards it. "Willow?" I whispered. "Yes Alexander?" He stopped. "D-don't we need that special drink that says drink me to get through this door?" I asked remembering my Grandmothers story.

"Only Alice used that... The other white rabbits can come and go as they please." He replied moving the tattered curtain. "Other white rabbits?" I asked. "I'll explain more later Alexander" He smiled. What's the meaning of 'follow the white rabbit'? Where does it come from? - Quora Quora Written Aug 11, 2015 It comes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Alice's strange journey begins when she sees a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and speaking English and decides to follow him down his rabbit hole. The phrase "Follow the white rabbit" means to follow an idea or a concept which may lead to a strange place. There are those who believe the White Rabbit is a metaphor for psychadelic drugs and for some people the phrase "follow the white rabbit" means "let yourself go and experience the mind opening power of psychadelics. This idea was popularised by Jefferson Airplane in their famous 1967 song "White Rabbit" Written Oct 13 To put this “white rabbit” in the context of Zen, it would be the Great Doubt, that hot iron ball caught in your throat that you can’t swallow or cough up.

In Zen it is also the White Ox that one chases. This is the seed germ of spiritual awakening that one must follow to the end that culminates in Satori. Kensho or satori is the birth of a single idea that contains the incongruity of the “white rabbit.” Where is that rabbit going? The rabbit implies a tension in one’s nature. The rabbit is the grain of sand, the irritant the oyster can’t remove. That “rabbit” is the God Seed. When it runs we are being called to the great adventure. We either answer that call or we don’t and we turn back to our normal existence. But for those who see and answer the call of the “white rabbit,” their lives will never more be the same. Notice that the white rabbit has a clock. There is metaphor here also, for to follow the white rabbit is not only a call for an important date, but it is a call to transcend time altogether. That date is with the end of time and the feeling that one is late for a date. You cannot be late when you are already there. Written Jan 7 The term “follow the white rabbit” comes from ancient mystical texts that were destroyed by the Church many century’s ago.

It came from the Gnostic teachings and were in reference to mans spiritual pursuit of the meaning of life and his futility in trying to find it. A tattered remnant of this story was found in the excavations of ruins in ancient Egypt. It seems the story revealed that in the pursuit of the “white rabbit” at some point the rabbit would stop in its tracks and turn around and attack you with its long claws and sharp teeth. Some experts claim the remnants are fake and the story is absurd. A famous theologian in the Church on his deathbed is said to have screamed that he was being attacked by a huge white rabbit but the Church denies this as a malicious rumor. 210 Views IMDb: Most Popular Titles With Quotes Matching "rabbit hole" Most Popular Titles With Quotes Matching "rabbit hole" 40 titles. Suicide Squad (2016) Just leave it, mate. She's a rabbit hole. Don't fall in. Ah, you helped me? By erasing my mind? What few faded memories I had! No. You left me in a black hole of rage and confusion. Is that the medicine you practice, Dr. Quinzel? 2. All right, we're down the rabbit hole.

What are you doing? 3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Well he could! In the Battle of Greenfields, he charged the Goblin ranks. He swung his club so hard it knocked the Goblin King's head cleaned off and it sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole. And thus the battle was won and the game of golf invented at the same time. These are Rhosgobel rabbits. I'd like to see them try. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole full of worms and oozy smells. This was a hobbit-hole and that means good food, a warm hearth, and all the comforts of home. But it's full of holes! 4. The Matrix (1999) I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole? This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. 5.

Episode: XX (2015) That's the job. Five people were killed because of a redacted memo. What do you think is gonna happen if LokSat finds out that you and Castle are working together on this? You're a big girl. Dive down the rabbit hole if you must, but think twice about who you bring with you, because unlike McCord and her team, anybody who dies now, that blood is on you. So you stuck him in the hole. Must have figured it was his safest bet. 6. Episode: Deep in Death (2009) It's because you're afraid, isn't it? You're afraid that if you look into your mother's death, that you will go back down that rabbit hole and lose yourself again. But it's different this time. We have good leads. We have strong leads. And you won't have to do it alone. We can do it together. 7. Every time you dig into your father's research, you disappear into a rabbit hole. It only leads you to a dark place. 11. No... I've been in love. I went down that rabbit hole. 12.

Misconduct (2016) Now that you are down in the rabbit hole, how far are you willing to go? Now you're down in the rabbit hole, how far are you willing to go to get hurt? It's better to go too far than not far enough. 13. My journey took me some what further down the rabbit hole than I intended and though I dirtied my fluffy white tail I have emerged, enlightened. 14. Alice in Wonderland (2010) From the moment I fell down that rabbit hole I've been told where I must go and who I must be. I've been shrunk, stretched, scratched, and stuffed into a teapot. I've been accused of being Alice and of not being Alice but this is *my* dream. *I'll* decide where it goes from here. I happen to love rabbits, especially white ones. Aunt Imogene, I think I'm going mad. I keep seeing a rabbit in a waistcoat. Can't be bothered with your fancy rabbit now. I'm waiting for my fiance. 15. I don't know, man. It's been a long time.

But I do know this, you better be ready to follow my ass down the rabbit hole, brother. I'm talking out of body, baby. Astro-projection! Tobias, we're going to Mad Mary's. 16. You know why habit rhymes with rabbit? Because your life goes down a rabbit hole. 18. Episode: The Ghost and Mrs. Hart (2003) Yeah and your mom told me why. Because when you'd put the little rabbit through the rabbit hole all of the sudden your shoes would turn into a spaceship or racecars and you'd run off in your socks playing this incredibly creative game. Yeah those rabbits were kinda hilarious! 19. Some fancy information that you have there. And dangerous. I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you that other reporters have been down this rabbit hole. Seasoned reporters. Who knew their way around Washington. And Central America. 20. Rabbit hole gone! Next time, I try mouse hole. Little mouse hole. 30. Virtuality (2009 TV Movie) Follow me through the mirror and down the rabbit hole, because the only way for any of us now is to keep going. Trust me.

Is has to be this way. 31. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004 Documentary) How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? We can't explain it, and anybody who gets too lost and try. Anybody who spends too much time trying to explain it is likely to get lost forever down the rabbit hole of mysteriousness. 32. Muppet Babies (1984 TV Series) Hey, Piggy, don't you mean a little rabbit that got chased down a rabbit hole? Once there was a little green tadpole and he got chased down a tadpole hole. I say it's a little green tadpole that got chased down a tadpole hole and unless you want to get shoved into a weirdo hole 33. Once I tried to squeeze down a rabbit hole. 34. Now all we have to do is transporticate this Rabbit hole to Casa de la Piglet. Uh, Tigger, how are we going to move a hole? 35. Final Fantasy XII (2006 Video Game) ...Hey, you sure this rabbit hole's the way into Archades? 36.

The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000 TV Special) Wow. So this is where the rabbit hole goes. I want to thank Larry and Andy Wachowski and Joel Silver, Zach Staenberg, and everybody at Warner Bros. for trusting me with such a terrific movie. It was a blast from start to finish. I want to thank our mixers, John, Gregg and Dave, and congratulations. I want to thank my terrific crew led by Julia Evershade, Eric Lindemann, and John Roesch. I thank my mother and father, my wife Francine, my sons Jeremy and Ryan for being there for me when I came back from being in the Matrix. This is a great honor. Thank you, everyone in the Academy. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's really wild being up here. Thank you, Larry and Andy Wachowski, for your vision, creativity, intelligence, daily inspiration, and most of all, your friendship. You accomplished the seemingly impossible - a movie with action, suspense, and an intelligent, provocative message. Take the blue pill and stay where you are, or take the red pill and see just how deep the rabbit hole goes.

We had a great team, quite a few of whom have been honored here tonight. They made my work great. I'd like to thank Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and everybody at Warner Bros. for the creative freedom and support. Joel Silver and Barrie Osborne, for fighting some good fights on our behalf. My entire assistant editing team led by Peter Skarratt, you all know who you are. Thanks to my wife Bonnie, my son Robert. I love you. There is no spoon. 37. That guy can't tell a rabbit from a hole in the 38. The Anatomy of a Great Deception (2014 Documentary) So, if you want to forget everything you've seen, go back to your regular life. Soon you'll forget about all of this. Our defense mechanisms work that way. But if you decide to jump down the rabbit hole, my advice is to seek your own answers. Do your own research. And don't let anyone tell you what to believe. About anything. Because until you see it for yourself, it'll be hard to ever understand why it's so important to know it exists. 39.

The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004 TV Special) This thing is heavy. I'd like to thank the Academy for finally recognizing my films. Thank you so very, very, very much! I thought it would never happen! I'd like to thank my very good friends at Sony Pictures Classics: Michael Barker, Tom Bernard. No one would get to see this movie without them. My two producers: Michael Williams, Julie Ahlberg. Couldn't have made the movie without them either. My long suffering editors: Charlie Silver, Brad Fuller, and Karen Schmeer and Doug Abel. Thank you also very, very much. And believe it or not, Robert McNamara, with whom, if he hadn't done it there would have been no film. Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again. And if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here! Thank you very, very much. 40.

White Rabbit | Once Upon a Time Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Alice Percy Rabbit, more commonly known as the White Rabbit, is one of the main characters of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland . A magical, fascinating creature, the White Rabbit has the ability to open portals between realms, and to travel wherever he wants. He is pure at heart, but circumstances find him playing a major part in the nefarious plans of two powerful villains, Jafar and the Red Queen , who resort to the Rabbit to bring Alice to Wonderland ... and to explore her heart and her weaknesses, so that they may get what they want from her. Thus, the poor Rabbit is forced to act against his will and bring harm upon the life of the girl who once followed him down his rabbit hole. Contents (" Out of the Past ") The White Rabbit leads a very young Alice to the magical land of Wonderland, leading everyone to believe she's gone insane when she returns home, namely her father . She then vows to herself that she will prove that Wonderland is real. (" Down the Rabbit Hole ") Many years later, Alice stays true to her word and returns to Wonderland in order to gain proof that the strange land exists.

She manages to track down the White Rabbit and she captures him, keeping him locked in a leather bag that she carries on her back. She steals a piece of the magical mushroom that the Caterpillar sits on, and then she heads deeper into Wonderland, carrying the White Rabbit with her. They find themselves on the run from the Queen of Hearts' royal guards in her maze, so she and the rabbit eat a piece of the mushroom which shrinks them, allowing them to hide under the hedges. They come across a bottle and Alice climbs inside, shocked to discover a genie named Cyrus inside. The two get talking and he asks why Alice came to Wonderland, she explains that she wanted proof. She shows him the White Rabbit, who is not happy about being held captive. She states nobody can deny a talking rabbit in a suit is real, amusing Cyrus, who tells her that much is certain. (" Trust Me ") After emerging from the bottle, Alice , the White Rabbit and Cyrus turn back to human size and then the genie tells Alice to open her hand after casting a small spell on it. Confused, she opens it to discover three ruby diamonds, which Cyrus explains are her wishes.

Alice then releases the White Rabbit from the bag she had him kept in, asking if there’s any hard feelings. He assures her its fine, stating he shouldn’t have ever led her to Wonderland as it’s been nothing but trouble for her. However, she tells him that he didn’t lead her, as she followed. He then tells Alice that she always was a curious girl. He then leaves Alice and Cyrus as he walks away, exiting the maze. Later on, after Alice and Cyrus have fallen in love, they decide on burying the bottle in a hole in the ground near a lion topiary in the middle of a field near a windmill. The White Rabbit is innocently behind the lion topiary as he overhears them assuring each other of their love. They then proceed to bury the bottle in the ground and the Rabbit comments on them, calling them crazy kids. He then notices the time and runs into the field’s long grasses, calling out to his “honey”, apologizing for being late. (" Down the Rabbit Hole ") The White Rabbit arrives in Storybrooke via portal to collect Will , so together they can rescue Alice , who needs her help. He claims to have seen Cyrus alive, so Will agrees to help.

They travel to Alice's realm, where they rescue Alice from an Asylum before they can perform a dangerous procedure on her. They fight the guards to break Alice out and before the escape into the streets of London, the White Rabbit shows himself to Dr. Lydgate , the man who classed Alice as insane. The rabbit creates a portal and then they all use it to enter Wonderland . The rabbit lands just beside a mallowmarsh, but unfortunately, Will and Alice land in it when they arrive. Before noticing any danger, the rabbit confesses to not actually seeing Cyrus, but instead claims the dormouse saw him at the Mad Hatter's house. They soon notice that they're sinking in the mallowmarsh, so the rabbit run's to get help. However, he runs into the Red Queen , someone who visibly terrifies him. She takes him back to her palace and it is revealed that the rabbit brought the duo to Wonderland under instruction of the Red Queen. She then instructs him to report to her everything that Alice says, does and thinks, under a death threat. The rabbit later meets up with Alice and Will at the Mad Hatter's house, where the former is disappointed to not have found Cyrus.

However, she soon discovers his necklace which is glowing red, causing her to believe he is alive. The trio then continue their journey to save Cyrus, but the rabbit remains the queen's slave. (" Trust Me ") As Alice and Will discuss their plans to collect the bottle in order to save Cyrus , the White Rabbit pretends to be asleep in order to hear their conversation and get left behind, as he is seen to slow them down. He visits the Red Queen’s castle soon after and explains that the duo left to get the bottle. She asks if he knows where it is, but when he hesitates to tell, she threatens him once more. This convinces the White Rabbit to confess to knowing the bottle’s location, pleasing the queen. The White Rabbit then goes on his own mini quest to get the bottle from a hole that Cyrus and Alice hid it in a long time ago. After returning with the bottle, the Red Queen taunts Jafar about having it in her possession. When she returns from this meeting, the White Rabbit asks if everything went well and she confirms that they did. He then dares to tell the queen that he has fulfilled his obligations, stating he went above and beyond the call of duty.

She seems grateful and agrees that he did, but when he reminds her that she promised to set him free, she tells him that promises are made to be broken, as are the bones of “bunnies” who forget what they have at stake. She tells him that when she gets what she wants, he will get what he wants, questioning why that is such a difficult concept to grasp. Curious, the queen wonders how the Rabbit knew of the bottle’s location, so he explains that he saw Alice and Cyrus bury it. (" Forget Me Not ") A while later, Will and Alice arrive at the Dandy Lion and they both slowly make their way towards the hole in the ground where Cyrus' bottle was previously hidden. She asks if he's ready so Will tells her to hurry as the sun will be setting soon and he has a debt to settle. Alice nods and then the duo both grab an edge of the knot each, holding it over the hole. They watch for a moment, but nothing happens. Alice points this out, but Will tells her to wait and then alerts her when it begins to work. They both look through the knot to see the White Rabbit exiting the hole with the bottle. Alice is shocked to see him.

They then follow as he walks with the bottle and hands it over to the Red Queen , who congratulates the animal. A distraught Alice drops the knot and says she doesn't understand, telling Will that she and the Rabbit were friends. She wonders how he could betray her like that, so Will, who looks back at the vision of the Red Queen, tells her she'll be surprised at what some people are willing to do. (" Heart of Stone ") The White Rabbit is kidnapped by Tweedledee and brought to Jafar for questioning. A confused Rabbit asks the sorcerer what he wants, so Jafar explains that he's intrigued by him as he wonders why someone who's known Alice for so long would betray her. He notes that the rabbit has a problem with the Red Queen and offers to help with it in return for some information. He demands to know everyone who Alice has ever loved and when he asks if they have a deal, the White Rabbit cowers. The rabbit stalls by giving information such as Alice enjoying tea parties, but Jafar grows tired and demands information. He points out that Alice has a weakness, the fact she cares about people, and then he asks who else in Wonderland matters to her.

The rabbit attempts to stall again, but Jafar grows impatient and cuts off his foot with his staff. The rabbit groans in pain as Jafar holds it. When Jafar asks again, the rabbit reveals that there is someone she cares about, but adds that they're not in Wonderland. Jafar smiles at this news. The rabbit is given his foot back and then Jafar asks to be taken to the place the person is at. However, the rabbit runs away from the sorcerer. As he escapes, he runs into Cyrus , who is also escaping. In order to let the genie escape, the rabbit returns to Jafar and then reluctantly opens up a portal. (" Home ") The White Rabbit returns to his home, hiding from Alice out of fear she'll go after him for betraying her to the Red Queen , which she soon does, kicking in the door of his house. Rabbit confesses that he only did it because Anastasia had his family held captive, something Alice and Will are able to sympathize with and subsequently forgive. The two decide to help him find his family, and Will is able to think of the perfect place to start.

He leads them to the abandoned wagon he and Ana once lived in, and there, they find Mrs. Rabbit and their son and daughter . The rabbit family embrace in a joyous reunion before the White Rabbit sends them off to his mother-in-law's house while he goes with Alice and Will to the Outlands. The three soon arrive at the invisible hideout Alice and Cyrus once stayed in, and they are soon joined by the genie, and surprised to see the Red Queen tagged along as well. Ana urges them all to leave Wonderland , for they are all doomed by Jafar if they stay. Alice refuses to leave without an explanation for Ana's actions thus far, including her reasons for taking away Cyrus and desiring the bottle. The Red Queen reveals it was all to get Will back and go back in time and stop them from ever splitting up, however, Will wants nothing to do with her any longer. Even to this, Alice doesn't believe the Red Queen, but Cyrus does, so she asks the White Rabbit to dig a hole to someplace safe for them. It's too late, however, as the storm cloud closes in. When trying to use the bottle as a shield against a lightning bold, it instead bounces off and fatally wounds Will.

He then proceeds to use his wish given to him by Alice, and that is to "end all of Alice's suffering", thus saving Alice, whose first wish has gone into effect, frees Cyrus of being a genie, but transforms Will into one himself, sending him inside his bottle down a stream. (" Dirty Little Secrets ") Following Will's transformation into a genie and the Red Queen abandoning her castle , the world of Wonderland is taken over by Jafar . Anastasia, accompanied by Will, visit the White Rabbit, requesting help in taking back Wonderland. The Rabbit appears terrified by the sight of Anastasia, so the Red Queen formally apologizes to him for taking his family and putting him through so much that she is going to never be able to give back. The White Rabbit is able to see this gesture is genuine, so he forgives her. Ana then asks for his help in convincing the commoners that she genuinely wants to take back the kingdom for their sake, and actually rule as a good queen. The White Rabbit then drops the bombshell when informing her that Jafar has released the Jabberwocky , which will makes things much more difficult. This shocks the queen, but she refuses to back down.

(" Heart of the Matter ") The White Rabbit, who has had no luck in gathering up an army for the Red Queen to take down Jafar , is visited by Alice and Cyrus . They request he take them through a portal to a town called Storybrooke in the Land Without Magic so they can retrieve Will's heart before Jafar does. Once arriving, Alice and Cyrus are immediately puzzled by the modern technology, and even make a close encounter with a moving car, driven by none other than Red Riding Hood . The White Rabbit fills them in on all the up-to-date technology, and they head to Will's former apartment. When looking around for where the heart could possibly be, Alice finds a poster of Anastasia pinned to the wall with darts stuck in it. Alice then removes the poster and finds her friend's beating heart hidden in the wall. She retrieves it, and the White Rabbit opens up a portal back to Wonderland . They don't get far, however, as Jafar catches them. Cyrus insists Rabbit flee back to his family, while he and Alice go up against the powerful sorcerer. Rabbit does so, and Jafar takes the Knave's heart. (" And They Lived...

") When Jafar finally succeeds in breaking the laws of magic, Alice and Amara rush to the White Rabbit's home with a deceased Cyrus . There, Amara uses magic to revive her son, and the White Rabbit unhappily complains about the blood stains on the carpet while Mrs. Rabbit tries to calm him down. Later, the White Rabbit overhears Alice and Amara talking about defeating Jafar and nervously inquiries if he should be involved as well. Seeing as they need every spare person, he helps Alice gather up an army of commoners to storm the castle and fight Jafar. Meanwhile, Amara heads for the Well of Wonders ; hoping to return the water inside her own body to the guardian, Nyx , so she will reverse a genie curse on Cyrus and her two other sons. While the White rabbit is scouting ahead, their division is ambushed by Jafar's soldiers. He hides out of sight, watching as Alice is captured, and then sneaks into the castle. An imprisoned Will notices him and distracts Anastasia , who has been put under a spell to fall in love with Jafar, as the White Rabbit tries to unbind Alice. However, the former Red Queen catches sight of him.

Will wins Anastasia over with a kiss of true love and breaks the magical hold Jafar has on her. After Alice is freed, the White Rabbit opens a portal to take her to the Well of Wonders where Cyrus' mother has been killed by Jafar. The sorcerer meets his doom, after stealing the water Amara was returning, by being enslaved as a genie, thus restoring the laws of magic. With Wonderland at peace, the White Rabbit takes Alice and Cyrus back to Victorian England . On the day of the couple's wedding, he helps Anastasia, Will, Tweedledum and Cyrus' brothers journey there to attend the ceremony, and he happily marries the couple. Years later, as Alice reads the book she has written about her adventures in Wonderland to her daughter , the Rabbit watches from afar. (" And They Lived... ") "'And the White Queen and the White King loved each other very much, and together, with their rabbit friends, they filled the land with wonder once again'," an older Alice reads to a little girl who sits atop her lap, both of them staring down at a book written by Alice, turned to a page containing a drawing of Will and Anastasia who rule benevolently as the White King and Queen.

Alice's daughter smiles at the ending to the story, and she asks her mother what she's going to call it. Closing the book, Alice admits that she doesn't know, having hoped that her daughter would help her choose, and then the little girl suggests, "I think you should call it... Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ." Alice tells her that that's a splendid idea, and her young daughter goes on to ask if the story is true. "Every last word," Alice assures her, which confuses the little girl, because she knows that the things that happened are impossible. However, Alice instills within her daughter some iconic words of wisdom: "Anything's possible in Wonderland." Cyrus then approaches with a teapot and cake in tow, and the little girl is excited to see her father, running towards him and taking the teapot in order to pour the tea herself. The happy family begin to have their outdoor dinner party together, and, as they do, the White Rabbit watches them from afar.

SparkNotes: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit Hole Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit Hole → Chapter 2: The Pool of Tears Summary Alice sits drowsily by a riverbank, bored by the book her older sister reads to her. Out of nowhere, a White Rabbit runs past her, fretting that he will be late. The Rabbit pulls a watch out of his waistcoat pocket and runs across the field and down a hole. 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. She plucks a marmalade jar from one of the shelves. The jar is empty, so Alice sets it down on another shelf. With nothing else to do, she speaks aloud to herself, wondering how far she has fallen and if she might fall right through to the other side of the earth. She continues to speak aloud, daydreaming about her cat Dinah. In the midst of imagining a conversation the two of them might have, she abruptly lands.

Unhurt, Alice gets up and catches sight of the White Rabbit as he vanishes around a corner. Alice approaches a long corridor lined by doors. The doors are all locked, so Alice tests them with a key that she finds on a glass table. After searching around, Alice discovers a small door behind a curtain. She tests the key again and finds that it opens up to a passage and a garden. Since the door is much too small for Alice to squeeze through, she ventures back to the table with the hope that she might find something there that would help her. A bottle marked “DRINK ME” sits on the table. Alice drinks the contents of the bottle after inspecting it to be sure it does not contain poison. Alice immediately shrinks, and though she can now fit through the door, she realizes she has left the key on the tabletop high above her. She alternately cries and scolds herself for crying before catching sight of a small cake with the words “EAT ME” underneath the table. Alice eats the cake with the hope that it will change her size, but becomes disappointed when nothing happens.

Analysis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland begins with Alice dozing off as her sister reads to her, anticipating the strange and nonsensical events that occur throughout the book. As her sister reads, Alice nods off into a dream-like state in which she seems to catch sight of a fully dressed white rabbit capable of speaking English. Even before she enters Wonderland, she experiences phenomena that depart from the conventional rules of the real world. The plunge into the rabbit hole represents a plunge into deep sleep. Her dreams create a fully formed world that constantly shifts and transforms with its own unique logic. The slow fall imitates the shift from dozing off to deep sleep, beginning with Alice’s idle daydreaming and ending with her firmly placed in her dream world. Alice slowly acclimates to the dream world but does not let go of the established logic of the waking world. She marvels that after this fall, she would think nothing of falling off of the top of her house, much less down the stairs, even though the narrator reminds us that both falls would still likely kill her. Alice runs away from the Victorian world of her sister because she feels unfulfilled, but she quickly discovers that Wonderland will not fulfill any of her desires. Wonderland thwarts her expectations at every turn.

The Rabbit represents this motif of frustrated desire. His antics inspire Alice to follow him down the hole and into Wonderland, but he constantly stays one step ahead of her. Led on by curiosity, Alice follows the elusive rabbit even though she does not know what she will do once she catches him. She pursues him out of pure curiosity but believes that catching him will give her some new knowledge or satisfaction. Even when the outcome is unknown, the act of chasing implies that a desired goal exists. Alice cannot enter the garden even though she wants to, and her desire to enter the garden represents the feelings of nostalgia that accompany growing up. Carroll dramatizes the frustrations that occur with growing older as Alice finds herself either too small or too large to fit through the passageway into the garden. After drinking the potion, Alice shrinks and cannot reach the key on the table. The helplessness that comes with her exaggeratedly small size represents the feelings of insignificance of childhood. The growth spurt caused by the cake in Chapter 2 represents the awkward bodily transformations that come with puberty. Alice’s growth allows her the means to fulfill her destiny but literally reminds her that she is growing away from the pleasures of childhood.

The idealized garden is now off limits to Alice, who can no more fit through the passageway than an infant could travel back to the safety and security of the womb.

EGYPT CENTRAL LYRICS - White Rabbit EGYPT CENTRAL LYRICS Has left it's writing on the wall We follow like Alice And just keep diving down the hole You can't fix your broken promise Our ties have come undone I will not be used to be battered and abused It's the reason why I choose to cut my losses Your lies fool no one Your magic white rabbit Your white room straight jacket Your magic white rabbit Has left it's writing on the wall We follow like Alice And just keep diving down the hole We're falling and we're losing control Your pulling us and dragging us down this dead end road We follow like Alice And just keep diving down the hole You can't offer your poison to me In your kingdom of filth White Rabbit Has left it's writing on the wall We follow like Alice And just keep diving down the hole We're falling and we're losing control Your pulling us and dragging us down this dead end road We follow like Alice And just keep diving down the hole I won't be pushed aside I will be heard I will get what I want What I deserve I won't be pushed aside I will be heard I will get what I want What I deserve We're falling and we're losing control Your pulling us and dragging us down this dead

 end road Your magic white rabbit Has left it's writing on the wall We follow like Alice And just keep diving down the hole We're falling and we're losing control Your pulling us and dragging us down this dead end road Your magic white rabbit Has left it's writing on the wall We follow like Alice And just keep diving down the hole Diving down the hole Visit for these lyrics.

Thanks to Arryanna Harwood for correcting these lyrics. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Chapter I CHAPTER I Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear!

I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. White Rabbit checking watch In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. 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. Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next.

First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it. `Well!' thought Alice to herself, `after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely true.) Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! `I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. `I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.

Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.) Presently she began again. `I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) `--but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke--fancy curtseying as you're falling through the air!

Do you think you could manage it?) `And what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.' Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. `Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think!' (Dinah was the cat.) `I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?' And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, `Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, `Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.

She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, `Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over. Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, `Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!' She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.

There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again. Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted! Alice finding tiny door behind curtain Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.

How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head though the doorway; `and even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, `it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (`which certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters. Alice taking "Drink Me" bottle It was all very well to say `Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry.

`No, I'll look first,' she said, `and see whether it's marked "poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked `poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. However, this bottle was not marked `poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * `What a curious feeling!' said Alice; `I must be shutting up like a telescope.' And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; `for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, `in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice!

when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried. `Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself, rather sharply; `I advise you to leave off this minute!' She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. `But it's no use now,' thought poor Alice, `to pretend to be two people!

Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!' Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants. `Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!' She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which way? Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Rabbit Hole | Definition of Rabbit Hole by Merriam-Webster Definition of rabbit hole : a bizarre or difficult state or situation —usually used in the phrase down the rabbit hole Examples of rabbit hole in a sentence <shoreline residents are finding themselves helplessly falling down a rabbit hole in their Sisyphean efforts to halt beach erosion> Origin and Etymology of rabbit hole from the rabbit hole that Alice enters in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland First Known Use: 1980 rabbit hole Synonyms Synonyms

Question: Who followed a white rabbit down a hole?
Answer: Alice