I unfortunately do not really remember the story of Alice in Wonderland, but i tried to look up a few summaries and gave this blog my best shot...
I agree with the quote, however i think it could simply be rephrased as: "Quentin is Alice in Wonderland." Alice is just as distraught and confused as Quentin. The first tell-tale sign that there will be extreme parallels between the two characters is when Alice sees the rabbit (who she follows into that hole) looking at his watch. Both characters have some sort of obsession with time. They both enter this time warp--literally for Alice and figuratively for Quentin.
Also, they both are searching for their identities and feel to have lost their old life. Alice goes through this Wonderland (which i find just as haunted as Quentin's world) trying to find herself and how she used to be. Quentin is constantly yearning to find his identity, preferably as a gentleman of the Old South, in conjunction with restoring his family's identity.
These two stories seem to be essentially the same..just creepy in different ways with the odd characters in Alice's Wonderland most likely created by a writer on acid and the confusion/disturbingness (for lack of a real, better word) of Quentin's life and the people he encounters, written by a ridiculously intelligent drunk.
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