Letter to No one and the Entire World. (Or, as a Non-Wonderlander would say, Chapter One)
Wonderland. As the name would suggest it is a land full of wonders. Some fantastic, some terrifying, all of them wonderfully insane.
You may think that you've never been to Wonderland before, but you have, we all have. We visit Wonderland after we go to sleep, and before we awaken. The ligher parts of Wonderland are our dreams. The darker parts are our nightmares.
In some ways Wonderland is more logical than the normal world. In Wonderland, there is not a doubt in your mind of who you are or what your greatest desires are, but at the same time, you're more doubtful than you have ever been before.
Wonderland can only project mirrors of your desires, and fears, figuring out the rest of the puzzle is up to you.
Wonderland is tricky though, and the rules of Wonderland are different than in the regular world.
For example, in Wonderland, up is sideways and down is diagnle. This is just common knowledge, but common knowledge is the hardest knowledge to find, seeing as everything is different, and every different thing has its own common roots, so common knowledge in one place is completely foreign in another, and it is very seldom that you find common knowledge that is common in all the common roots of the different places.
As you can tell, to figure out Wonderland, you have to be mad.
Mad, like a hatter.
Or, as a non-Wonderlander such as yourself might say, mad like a person that works with hats and mercury poison all day long.
But mad as a hatter just has a nicer ring to it, now doesn't it?
Being mad isn't so bad, it helps you understand Wonderland, you'll see.
Being mad isn't hard either, all you have to do is look at the world as a mad person would, or an infant. The two really aren't that far apart.
For instance, half always means that something has been split right down the middle. It doesn't matter if the two halves are symmetrical or not. There is much too much of the world out there to be worrying about symmetry.
Also, if you were to turn a cup of water upside down, the water, of course, would stay in the cup, because the whole purpose of the cup is to keep the water in it. The only way to get it out is to drink it. There is also much too much of the world out there to be worrying about gravity.
The trick is to think logically and illogically all at the same time. It's a little hard at first, but eventually you grow used to it.
I have visited Wonderland many times now, and I have grown so accustomed to it, I doubt that I will ever leave.
Wonderland is my home now, and yet I know I don't belong here. It is built completely wrongly and rightly for me, but in particular, it is built writely for me, so as I may write about it as I am doing now. (If you could understand that last sentence, you are beginning to think like a hatter.)
Hoping to see you in Wonderland soon,
Alice