"Alice meets the Red Queen on a huge chessboard that encompasses the whole world, on which life is played strictly according to the rules of the game. Alice and the Red Queen are on a mission to progress from the Second Square to the Eighth Square, so that Alice too can become a Queen. However: The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything.”

(Alice and the Red Queen/Fairytale as allegory
by Andrian Kreye)