Alice fell down a hole, much like a tunnel, and down she went without end, with no notion of where it might lead. ‘If tumbling down the stairs were ever like this,’ Alice thought to herself, ‘I should not need to be afraid of it at all.’
At that very moment, a splendid looking-glass appeared beside her, drifting slowly past as she fell, and yet the Alice within the glass was turned quite upside down. ‘Can it be that I have already passed through the centre of the earth?’ Alice wondered to herself.