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Alice observes that the King is trying to rewrite the rules of the court mid-trial. His is far from the only book in flux within Wonderland as that defiance of the finality of text is built into both the mockery of familiar nursery rhymes and Alice's own attitude towards text. Moving into what Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore called "electric time-space" draws attention to the flexibility of Alice as a character and as a work—the same traits that make her easy to modernize: "'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished" (63). These first interactive remediations mostly adopt aspects of the original journey, taking text and nonsense into digital rules systems. Alice's identity maps onto a network of nodes.


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