OAUG Research Notes
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 bottle on it ("which was certainly not there before," said Alice), and tied around the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on it in large letters.
It was all very well to say "Drink Me," but 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 stories about children who had got burnt, eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules her friends had taught her...
However, this bottle was not marked "poison," so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice... she very soon finished it off.
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And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found a very small cake, on which the words "EAT ME" were beautifully marked in currents.
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So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
The bottle shrank Alice down to less than a foot while the cake grew her incredibly tall— 9 feet, to which she only shrank again as a result of tears.
I think there's some connection here in a few areas: the rabbit hole is like the tornado in the Wizard of Oz as in Carrol's book it leads to Wonderland just as the natural disaster brings Dorothy to the land of Oz. To the point of poison then, it's somewhat akin to The NeverEnding Story II.
Where this comes into Marilyn Manson is mostly twofold; as One Assassination Under God has been likened as 'Eat Me, Drink Me fully realized', an album characteristically based on the story of Alice In Wonderland mixed with Nabikov's Lolita, sort of similar to the 1976 pornographic adaptation of Lewis Carrol's books Alice In Wonderland - An X-Rated Fantasy, with the added elements of vampirism and high ends of low in obsessive love and loss; but in regards to the Wizard Of Oz there's the allusions to the story in the title track of Chapter One with, "just monkey's will be left to fly," and then the poppy field imagery in the music video for the lead single As Sick As The Secrets Within.
The key to the garden's tiny door, maybe sort of similar to the beginning lines of Lucifer's Teardrop on Chapter Two, though that would seem to harken back more to Deep Six from The Pale Emperor... At the same time however, it's also a song (Lucifer's Teardrop) that could be seen in the lense of Oz, a trickster like those characters focused on in the Portrait Of An American Family era. Lucifer is somewhat likened or analagous to Loki, a trickster entity from a certain perspective of viewing these Satans...
Some Conclusions and Further Consideration for more research
Now having finished reading Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, my theory of a parallel to the Wizard of Oz has been proven correct in a certain regard: at the end of Lewis Carrol's first glimpse of this fantastical world of nonsensical logic and overarching card deck royalty, Alice is awoken from this by her sister and it was all merely a dream. This is similar to (at least the film adaptation of) the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy is whisked away to this merry old land of Oz in this tornado, and after an exciting adventure finds her way home to awaken in bed from this dream, having bumped her head during the ordeal of the natural disaster...
Now, I probably should reread the Wizard Of Oz as it's been about a decade since I last went through the pages of that book; I think it was in fifth grade I last did so. But as of now, I will read the second part of Alice's story in Through The Looking-Glass... the title reminds me now of the movie Arthur And The Invisibles.
The pile of books beside by bed shrinks.
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