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There was once a young man of Oporto
Who daily got shorter and shorter;
The reason he said
Was the hod on his head,
Which was filled with the heaviest mortar.
His sister, called Lucy O’Finner,
Grew constantly thinner and thinner;
The reason was plain —
She slept out in the rain,
And was never allowed any dinner.
—Lewis Carroll, Useful and Instructive Poetry (1845)
Have a tea party today, and raise a cup of tea to John Tenniel.
English cartoonist and Alice-in-Wonderland illustrator, John Tenniel was born today in 1820. One of the all-time great illustrators, he was able to make some of the world’s great books even more wonderful.
Jabberwocky Spell Checked.
“Off with their heads!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
“I don’t much care where –”
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Happy Birthday to one of our favorite writers: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832 in the little parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn. His novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass are those rare books that you can read dozens of times and discover something new each time.
“When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don’t state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint.”
—Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
JABBERWOCKY
by Lewis Carroll
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
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