Frye states that "such repetitive formulas destroy and confuse the consciousness," (178) throughout Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the problems Alice faces revolve constantly around logic, wordplay, and subtle tricks of perception, the first of which manifests itself when Alice first sees the white rabbit, nothing clicks in Alice's mind when the rabbit speaks for the first time, "but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of his waistcoat pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice jumped up, for it occurred to her that she had never seen a rabbit with a waistcoat pocket before, or with a watch to get out of it” (Carroll 2), this is the point where Alice realizes that rationally something is wrong. A more complex example of Carroll's practice of absurd reason is seen when the Duchess advises Alice that the moral is "Be what you appear to be" or, if you wish, put more simply "Never imagine yourself to be." unlike what it might seem to others, that what you were or might have been was no different than what you would have been would have appeared differently to them” (Carroll 81). In terms of logic Carroll plays with the binary between what is true and what is false which is the foundation of the sensitive logistic nature of binary logic, Carroll is able to create humor through this