Aphorisms and Idioms: Down A Rabbit Hole!
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t’s pretty easy to end up going down a rabbit hole. Not the sort where furry little, long-eared, hippity-hopping critters live, though. Rather, the kind we’re hearing more and more about these days. From people who have gotten sucked into spending way too much time chasing drivel on the internet. That is… as a metaphor for distraction.
This idiom comes from Lewis Carroll’s beloved novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice is intrigued by a white rabbit she sees checking the time on a pocket watch, so she follows him down a rabbit hole. Sounds a lot like when we see something on the internet that intrigues us enough to follow it down a digital rabbit-hole, keeping us scrolling for hours.
And Alice falls for a very long time, seeing all sorts of unusual yet useless objects on the way down. Rather like those prolonged, unproductive trips down the digital rabbit-holes we fall into chasing memes. It’s something you probably don’t want to make a habit of.
The Rabbit Hole
There’s one rabbit hole you’ll definitely want to dive into, though. And that’s an interactive museum located in Kansas City, MO. It celebrates 100 years of children’s literature, and is named — you guessed it — The Rabbit Hole.
This museum may focus on children’s literature, but the experience is definitely for people of all ages. Visitors become explorers in this immersive, multi-sensory, narrative landscape. It’s chockablock full of environments that not only invite you to read the book being illustrated, but step into it and become part of the story.
The Rabbit Hole also features The Lucky Rabbit Bookstore, a Resource Library, Story Lab, Makerspace and Print Shop. And these resources deliver programming for adults as well as children. Such as writing labs, book-making workshops, professional opportunities for educators, and residencies to name a few.
It’s pretty obvious that The Rabbit Hole’s mission is :
To create a living culture around literature, accessible to all, that will nourish, empower, and inspire the reading lives of children and adults.[1]
And boy howdy, do they deliver! It’s exactly the type of endeavor we can really get behind here at This Book is Banned. Especially since it isn’t just young adult novels and classic works that are being banned. Believe it or not, children’s literature – even picture books – are targeted too.
So, if you’re in the Kansas City area, or are going to be soon, this is one Rabbit Hole you ‘ll want to be sure to dive into. When you arrive follow the rabbits, just like Alice did, into a land of wonder and adventure. And tell them the folks at This Book Is Banned sent you.
Here’s A Trail Map
for your adventure.
And A List of Books
You’ll Encounter In This Wonderland.
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[1] The Rabbit Hole.org https://www.rabbitholekc.org/overview
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