A small atlas of Wonderland · 1865
A story takes shape.
What stays with us after the last page? Follow the words through Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Change the silhouette. Keep the evidence.
0 of 7 thread terms placed.alice · hatter · hare · dormouse · tea · time · table
These are hand-picked story groups, not discovered clusters. Alice belongs to all three. A hull wraps its members and may enclose other words along the way.
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From the book · first occurrence
alice397 occurrences
…CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:…
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How to read this
A shape is a constraint.
The same seed, source, font and viewport produce the same placement in the same raster environment. Rearranging changes position, never frequency. Smaller screens repack the words; the ranked list keeps every input.
The story threads reuse the network frame’s background layer and rounded hull geometry. The same frame handles word hover, keyboard navigation and linked highlighting, whether the words are painted with SVG or Canvas.
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Source & method
Nothing hidden in the silhouette.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Project Gutenberg · Lewis Carroll, 1865. Public domain in the USA. Source captured 2026-10-31.
Chapters I–XII, excluding the table of contents and license. Case-insensitive English tokens; possessive 's removed; explicit stop list; no stemming. Character/object groups are editorial labels, not automated entity recognition.
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