Catching the hesitation before the question, Zechs' eyes narrowed just slightly. Thinking. Calmly, he answered, "Of course. That is where that Alice had gone to - down a rabbit hole or through a looking glass. Encountering then all sorts of characters, of various kinds of absurdity."

He's just describing the kind of story, that word choice wasn't a judgmental one. But the book was, purposefully, absurd.