I missed previous comments on this, but from the little bit that I do know I'm surprised at the anger in this email. I'm not familiar with Neil Gaiman other...
there's no one to protect the ... I read "Coraline" when it first came out and felt it had nothing to say, yet was flashy and trashy and gripping. No harm in...
When you say CLD's lists, do you mean the list of pictures he made for sale in about 1860? (His photographic register has disappeared.) I am sure you are...
According to Martin Gardner, Note 30 to "Looking-Glass House," Alexander Taylor showed how to get vorpal by picking letters alternately from verbal and gospel....
Ruth Berman isn't a member of the group but she reads it and asked me to post her comment, so here it is: -- Regarding the comment that there are "stage...
Of course, 'vorpal sword' can be rearranged to form 'bold palaver.' I meant 'vorpal blade' instead of 'vorpal sword.' Oddly, when Carroll wrote 'vorpal blade,'...
Carroll says "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see." But is a Boojum a Snark? Let's start at the beginning. Carroll says that "Some [Snarks] are Boojums."...
Hi, Instead of searching so far and wide, couldn't we first begin with the method Carroll points us to: portmanteaus? "Vor," as you imply, is likely related...
You say 'vorpal seems linguistically closer to vortical' but can you back this statement with linguistic evidence? Can you name other words where the stem...
... Maybe I shouldn't have said "linguistically." I was just thinking that maybe saw a word in English- vortical - and wanted us to get 'Pict' out of it, so he...
The Lewis Carroll Forum - not this Discussion Group - allows a person to edit a message after it has been posted. Can one do that on this Lewis Carroll...
When I hear or read "vorpal sword" I in 'Jabberwocky'I imagine a finely crafted sword with its name or a magic spell engraved in runes on the blade. I picture...
Along with "vorpal," I see two other words in Jabberwocky that are not defined in the notes by Martin Gardner: "wabe" and "tulgey" (wood). Later,in the Humpty...
Along with "vorpal," I see two other words in Jabberwocky that are not defined in the notes by Martin Gardner: "wabe" and "tulgey" (wood). Later,in the Humpty...
... the method Carroll points us to: portmanteaus? "Vor," as you imply, is likely related to "vortex," or a gyre, and "verses" (Skeat). For the "pal" part,...
I think you're right on track etymologically as well! 'Claymore' is derived from the gaelic 'claidheamh mór' (great sword); but 'm' mutates to 'v' in celtic...
These two posts about "vorpal" seem like really good suggestions Maybe they are the answer. I would just like to add that, without the p, the letters of voral...
My first guess is that it is a combination of tulip + geyser. We then have an image of a field of tulips with a geyser or geysers in it, which, along with a...
... or a ... I just happened to be looking at Morton Cohen's Lewis Carroll: A Biography, and noticed on page 30 that he says the Great Hall at Oxford...
I confess I have always read 'tulgey' as 'tul-gee' (to rhyme with bulgey')and the meaning I have imagined is again unconnected with any forced etamology. I...
Has anyone posted a review of Karoline's revised book anywhere online? If so can you offer the link? Or indeed of any other recent carrollian book reviews....
Yes, I agree that ‘tulgey’ should rhyme with bulgy. I cannot think of any English words where  –lge- is pronounced with a hard g. Can anyone think...
... that occurs in fairy/folk tales. The sort that is populated with large, ... Part of the ceiling at Christ Church Cathedral kind of looks like overhanging...
The Dodo "stood for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him)," (AAIW,...
...or a turtle? Does Fit 2, stanza 16 describe what it is like to eat a snail? I don't know myself. Possibly this refers to taste in appearance or clothing....
Hi, Isn't part of the problem of "looking for answers" this way that there seems to be no method involved. It seems that whatever comes into a person's mind...
I came across a fascinating snippet of the handwritten Alice's Adventures Under Ground according to the Google optical scanner system. I wonder if anyone can...
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