collapse:100 | Sonnet 4.6 | Literary task
Metadata
- Date: 2026-05-23
- Tool: Claude.ai (iOS app)
- Model: Sonnet 4.6
- MTP Skill version: 1.0.0
- MTP Skill arguments:
collapse:100(slider)
Prompt
/mtp collapse:100 Tell the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll in a way that makes someone want to read it.Output
Section titled “Output”The text below is copied from the tool output using the “Copy” button.
A girl falls down a hole.
What follows is the strangest, most perfectly observed account of what it feels like to be small in a world that makes no sense — to be a child among adults, or a stranger in a place that keeps changing the rules without telling you.
Carroll wrote it in 1865 and somehow it has not aged a single day. Alice is not a passive little girl who things happen to. She is curious, impatient, a little vain, frequently annoyed, and completely herself. She argues with a caterpillar. She politely tolerates a mad tea party while privately thinking everyone at it is insufferable. She stands up to a queen who threatens to execute people for minor inconveniences. She is, in other words, a real person, which is rarer in literature than it sounds.
The book is also genuinely funny. Not charming-for-its-era funny. Actually funny. The logic jokes land. The wordplay lands. The Mock Turtle explaining that he took Reeling and Writhing, and Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision — these are jokes a ten-year-old gets and a forty-year-old gets differently, which is the only real test of whether something is worth reading.
It takes about two hours. You will finish it and feel like you have been somewhere. That somewhere is slightly uncomfortable and lit wrong and full of creatures who speak only in riddles, and you will want to go back.