Chapter Six: Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Janusian Reality)
Through The Looking-Glass EXPLAINED
All of a sudden, Alice hears a loud puffing like the sound of a steam engine. She soon finds out where the sound is coming from; it's coming the Red King himself.
When Tweedledee and Tweedledum explain to Alice that she is a figment of the Red King's dreamy Imagination, she begins to cry.
Janusian Reality
Tweedlee and Tweedledum attempt to explain to Alice that she is simply a figment of the Red King's Dreamy Imagination, not unlike the way Morpheus attempts to explain to Neo that the physical reality he lives in is an illusion.
Tweedlee and Tweedledum are echoing the sentiments of the Garden of Live Flowers, who originally insisted to Alice that she was not, in fact, real. Not even Alice's tears are real. When Alice meets the Unicorn, he finally gives her a basis for believing in reality and that things are actually happening.
Here's how Bertrand Russell described the Tweedlee and Tweedledum's assertion that "nothing is real."
"A very instructive discussion from a philosophical point of view...but if it were not put humorously, we should find it too painful."
Even the most well-read scholars of our time are uncertain about the nature of reality. When Alice meets the Unicorn, he provides her with the only solid footing in reality she can expect in such a backwards land.
Through The Looking-Glass EXPLAINED uncovers the hidden algorithms that underlie Lewis Carroll’s greatest work. Along the way, you’ll learn how you can go from a Pawn to a Queen, just like Alice does.