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with discussions of death, torture, and suicidal ideation in the context of a fictionalized story.

Content warnings at a full transcript are available in the show notes. Anna?

Not asleep yet, are you?

I was hoping not.

You know, I've been promising to start Alice's adventures in Wonderland.

Should we do it?

All right. The little caterpillar wants a story.

Chapter 1. Down the rabbit hole.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having

nothing to do. Once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no

pictures or conversations in it. And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?

So she was considering in her own mind as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel

very sleepy and stupid, whether the pleasure of making a daisy chain would be worth the trouble

of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly

a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that,

nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the rabbit say to itself,

Oh dear! Oh dear, I shall be too late.

When she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this,

but at the time it all seemed quite natural.

But when the rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and looked at it,

and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet,

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