The Rabbit Hole and Metaphor

Lewis Carroll, Dan Simmons and obsession

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

I recently read Dan Simmons’ novel Hyperion, the first novel in his Hyperion trilogy. Anyone who has read the novel knows that Simmons created a remarkably rich fictional world: you can fall down the rabbit hole, as it were, reading fan-made wikis, which provide more detail about the novel (…