Monarch-mind-control

chapter_5
The slave learns that E-V-I-L is simply L-I-V-E backwards. In the
looking glass world, the Red Queen knows of a hill so large that
compared to it the hill in question is a valley. Also she knows of
dry biscuits which quench thirst, a messenger who whispers by
shouting, and Alice who runs as fast as she can to stay in one place.
(Sometimes it seems we really do have to run fast to stay in place.)
The King of Hearts thinks its not unusual to write letters to nobody,
and the White King compliments Alice on having keen enough
eyesight to see nobody at a great distance down the road.
Can you see why this book was so good to program us? In the book
Through the Looking Glass all asymmetrical objects (that means all
objects which can't be superimposed on their mirrored image) "go
the other way." There are left-right reversals. Tweedledee and
Tweedledum are mirror image twins. The White Knight sings about
squeezing his right foot into a left shoe, and there are several
mentions of corkscrews. A Helix (a corkscrew) is an asymmetric
structure with distinct left and right forms.
The book's type of thinking was extended beyond asymmetrical
objects to asymmetrical relations of all types. For example, Alice
walks backward, in the railway carriage the guard tells her she is
traveling the wrong way. The king has two messengers, "one to
come and one to go." The White Queen explains the advantages of
living backward in time, the looking glass cake is handed around
first, then sliced.
Odd and even numbers, which are equivalent to left and right or on
and off are worked into the story at several points. For instance, the
White Queen requests jam every other day. Going through the
looking glass takes us to a world where the ordinary world is turned
upside down and backward. Things go every which way except the
way they are supposed to go. Anti-matter is a mirror image.
Anti-matter milk will explode Alice, but an Anti-matter Alice on
the other side of the looking glass can drink the anti-matter milk.
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