What is "Alice in Wonderland" Actually About?

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This one is more of an “alternate take” than a deleted scene: The idea this section gets at is still present in the published essay, but it’s fleshed out here in a way that I like — and that adds a few nice details — but that ultimately slowed the momentum of the finished piece. So here it is in its original form for you to read.

Note: This would have come right after the paragraph where I mention some of the many and varied theories about what Alice is “really about”, from political satire to religious allegory to social commentary.