What is the big deal about this alice and wonderland curiouser and curiouser?”
In Lewis Carroll’s book Alice In Wonderland, Alice, a normal Victorian Era school girl, falls through a rabbit hole one day and finds herself in “Wonderland,” an increasingly unreal world of talking animals, singing flowers, and litigious Queens. … The original quote, “curiouser and curiouser” comes from this passage of the book: … “’Curiouser and curiouser!’ Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). ’Now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!’ (for when she looked down at her feet they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off).” (Ch. 2) … At this point, Alice has just eaten a cake (labeled “EAT ME”) that has made her “telescope” up to 9 feet tall. As a proper (and fictional) young girl in Victorian England, her reaction to this is somewhat the muted exclamation, “Curiouser and curiouser.” … People will often use the phrase when they feel that they are seeing
