Editing Go Ask Alice (section)

==Title==
The title was taken from a line in the 1967 [[Grace Slick]]-penned [[Jefferson Airplane]] song "[[White Rabbit (song)|White Rabbit]]"<ref name=hendley /><ref name=loebker>{{cite news |last=Loebker |first=Terri |date=1971-10-16 |title=Books In Review: Diary of a Young Drug Addict |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/101240321/ |newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer |page=Teen-Ager–p. 3 |access-date=2016-12-21 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription  |quote="Go Ask Alice", (title adapted from Grace Slick's song, "White Rabbit",) is the anonymous diary of a 15-year-old drug user.}}</ref> ("go ask Alice/ when she's ten feet tall"); the lyrics in turn reference scenes in [[Lewis Carroll]]'s 1865 novel [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|''Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'']], in which the title character [[Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)|Alice]] eats and drinks various substances, including a mushroom, that make her grow larger or smaller. Slick's song is understood as using Carroll's story as a [[metaphor]] for a drug experience.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Rock Hits Often Push Drug Messages |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/8870876 |newspaper=The Arizona Republic |location=Phoenix, Arizona |date=1970-02-18 |page=14–A |access-date=2016-12-21 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription  }}</ref><ref>{{cite news <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2012-08-20 |title=Magazine: Is Alice In Wonderland Really About Drugs? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19254839 |work=BBC News |access-date=2016-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908220629/http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19254839 |archive-date=2016-09-08 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The title ''Go Ask Alice'' was actually thought up by Kathy Fitzgerald, Sparks' editor at Prentice-Hall.  Sparks' title was "Buried Alive", which Fitzgerald greatly disliked.  Fitzgerald lit on the new title after overhearing a co-worker singing "White Rabbit" in an office hallway.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson: 9781637740422 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691586/unmask-alice-by-rick-emerson/ |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}</ref>