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  "title": "Shrinking opens Alice's garden",
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      "exact": "Alice must grow small if she is to be Alice in Wonderland",
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      "prefix": "im look up and see marvels; for ",
      "suffix": ". Thus it loses both the poetry ",
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  "body_markdown": "In Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* (1865), smallness makes a desirable world accessible. Chapter I's tiny doorway shows Alice a beautiful garden she cannot enter at her usual size. Shrinking initially brings another difficulty: she cannot reach the key. At the end of chapter VII she finally takes the key first, reduces her height with the mushroom, and enters the garden. Chesterton turns this practical change of scale into an image of humility making wonder possible. His sentence compresses the story: Alice has already encountered wonders before shrinking, and the garden is a particular destination within her adventure. Carroll's scene supports Chesterton's metaphor; it does not establish that Carroll intended a Christian allegory. [Inspected witness: Project Gutenberg, Millennium Fulcrum Edition 3.0, chapters I and VII](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11/11-h/11-h.htm).",
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    "The inspected electronic witness is not a scan of the 1865 first edition; no claim of Carroll's theological intention is made."
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        "approach": "Quotations and attributions",
        "question": "What does Arnold's Resignation actually recommend, and how fairly does dilution describe it?"
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      {
        "approach": "Biblical references",
        "question": "Does becoming a little child recall a Gospel account in which humility and greatness coexist?"
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      {
        "approach": "Assumed knowledge and unusual language",
        "question": "What does Alice's shrinking permit, and how literally does Chesterton's claim fit Carroll's narrative?"
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