Literature on Drugs

Everyone has seen Alice in Wonderland. All the colors and strange characters, and not to mention a catapillar smoking a hookah. When you're a kid you just find it interesting. It's a disney movie so it has to be innocent right? Well, that's false.
There are so many different theories out there about if the author Lewis Carroll was on acid while he wrote Alice in Wonderland. I researched it and found out that it's not true that he was on acid, because acid wasn't even discovered until many years later. But, through my research I did come across that Carroll had many migranes and was on the drug Opium. Opium is known to cause vivid dreams. There are some sites that refute this, but I believe it. Lewis Carroll was a mathematician. He either just had creative explosion one day, or he took something.
A couple weeks ago I saw a play called "Still Life With Iris." It starts out with a girl living in a very colorful world, where people make storms and flowers and catch the moon. Everyone wears coats that keep hold of all their memories. Once they take their coats off, they don't know who they are anymore. Iris gets kidnapped and taken to a black and white world to live with the Goode family. The Goode family insists on having the best of everything. They only wear one shoe, the best shoe. Iris hates this world and runs away to a beach, where she meets a pirate gypsy woman and Mozart. Maybe it's just me, but I definately felt like I was tripping while I was watching it.

This blog really has nothing to do with anything we're doing in class right now, but I just wanted to write it for funsies. It's literature, and this is a literature class after all.

I do have one connection. If the Goode family found something that was not the best, they would send it to the cave. In one part of the play, they show all the people that have been sent to the dungeon. They all look hot damn messes. The cave was crawling with Bertha Masons.