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Clive55
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:18 am Post subject: The Alice Thread |
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Any other fans of the Lewis Carrol Alice books?
I'll post various bits of info & references here, please do the same, & your impressions of these remarkable books |
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jennyw
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Cardiff
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:30 pm Post subject: Alice Thread |
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I love Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and have a leather-bound copy I bought a few years ago. Also like the Heidi series.
I borrowed Anotated Alice from outr library but didn't enjoy it, especially as some tw@t had pencilled in their comments on almost every page!
What I'd like to do to people like that _________________ I like cats and music |
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Clive55
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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When I come across a book which has been scribbled all over, I can-not bear to read it. My eyes always involuntarily keep straying to the scribbled notes.
Try to get an unmolested copy, & you may enjoy it more.
At the back of the book, there is a nice poem by Carroll, which I will include here.
The initial letters of the lines spell out Alice's full name
A BOAT,BENEATH A SUNNY SKY
LINGERING ONWARD DREAMILY
IN AN EVENING OF JULY-
CHILDREN THREE THAT NESTLE NEAR,
EAGER EYE & WILLING EAR,
PLEASED A SIMPLE TALE TO HEAR-
LONG HAS PALED THAT SUNNY SKY:
ECHOES FADE & MEMORIES DIE:
NEVER SEEN BY WAKING EYES.
STILL SHE HAUNTS ,ME, PHANTOMWISE,
ALICE MOVING UNDER SKIES
NEVER SEEN BY WAKING EYES.
CHILDREN YET, THE TALE TO HEAR,
EAGER EYE & WILLING EAR,
LOVINGLY SHALL NESTLE NEAR.
IN A WONDERLAND THEY LIE
DREAMING AS THE DAYS GO BY,
DREAMING AS THE SUMMERS DIE:
EVER DRIFTING DOWN THE STREAM-
LINGERING IN THE GOLDEN GLEAM-
LIFE, WHAT IS IT BUT A DREAM? |
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jennyw
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Cardiff
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: Alice |
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That's very nice, thank you. _________________ I like cats and music |
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Clive55
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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One of the comic poems in Alice, "You Are Old, Father Williams" is a parody of a Robert Southey poem "The Old Man's Comforts & How He Gained Them" which is a bit tiresome to read (the Southey poem, that is)
Seems Carroll feels the same as the last verse in his poem runs
" 'I have answered three questions, & that is enough',
Said his father. 'Don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you downstars!' " |
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Clive55
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:42 am Post subject: |
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Very possibly, the Alice books contain all you need to know in them! |
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