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Clive55



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:18 am    Post subject: The Alice Thread Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:30 pm    Post subject: Alice Thread Reply with quote

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 Twisted Evil

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Clive55



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:28 pm    Post subject: Alice Reply with quote

That's very nice, thank you.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very possibly, the Alice books contain all you need to know in them! Cool
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