Dichotomy of Homonyms in Alice

Much of the characters' logic in Alice in Wonderland is based on an ever changing dichotomy of homonyms. In Through the Looking Glass, the knight says that one time when he fell into his helmet, another knight came along and put it on with him still inside of it. "...[I]t took hours and hours to get me out. I was as fast as-- as lightning, you know" (ch. 8). Alice then objects that it is a different kind of fastness. The words are always changing their meaning in Alice, not quite like a portmanteau, but stretching them to the brink of their homonymity. Later on, Alice says to a wasp that he could make his yellow wig look much nicer if he had a comb, to which he expresses interest, and asks how much honey she has (in her comb). Like "fast," "comb" changes its meaning to the other end of the homonym dichotomy. Lastly, when the Red Queen asks Alice how bread is made, she says you need flour, and the White Queen asks where she would pick it. Alice says that it isn't picked, but ground, and the White Queen then asks how many acres of ground.
Each of these times, the characters are basing their logic on a dichotomy of homonyms that is always changing. This is appropriate for Alice, as nothing makes sense in Wonderland. Particularly in Through the Looking Glass, where everything is backwards, it makes a sort of sense that when presented with a homonym dichotomy, the backwards characters immediately switch to the other meaning. To think backwards, you must learn.