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Originally posted by uss:
hey, epona! did you know Lewie ( [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] Lewie..)?
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Yes of course I did. We shared a bong from time to time and we used to drink in the same pub. [img]tongue.gif[/img] I'm a lot older than I look you know (he died in 1898, in my hometown Guildford).
Some Carroll poetry for you:
'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 manxnome 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 hast 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.
On a related note, has anyone seen the brilliant film 'Alice' by Jan Svankmajer? I think Carroll would have approved, it is delightfully surreal.