"The White Queen threshold is the point in a story when the heroine realizes that Anything Could Happen and stops expecting normality. The point where, if a howler monkey were to parachute from the heavens in front of her and begin singing "Danny Boy," she would just watch silently for a while and think, "Figures." The point where the brain has gone numb from impossibility and is now prepared to swallow anything."
-Columbine