Anagrams are great fun and I can (and do) mess around with them for hours, but I think we should be aware that as a tool of literary or biographical analysis...
Hello! I'm writing master thesis about philosophical( logical, methaphisical and ethical) aspects of Alice's books. I haven't read yet The Annotated Alice.I...
Thank you Joel for your replay. I have got already The Philosopher's Alice by Heath. I 'am looking for another sources.That's why I'm asking about The ...
Hello Agnieska and welcome to the group. I don't think 'The Annotated Alice' has a great deal to say about philosophical/ethical issues; its main value is as a...
... philosophical/ethical issues; its main value is as a source for the originals of the parodies, and other topical references. < I think it has quite a lot...
Ruth Berman
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Mar 3, 2004 7:12 pm
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... May I ask, PM, what made you decide to start looking for anagrams of girls' names in CLD's work, and why you fixed on this particular line of poetry?...
Mike, it should be pointed out that despite all these philosophical theories the evidence to prove them has not been forthcoming. Perhaps the links AIW and...
Keith Wright
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Mar 4, 2004 7:30 am
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Dear PM, In the book "The Red King's Dream" by Jo Elwyn Jones and Francis Gladstone, the authors make a lot of use of anagrams and word riddles in their...
Hi People on this wonderful list may like to know of a small eBay auction a friend has opened - three translations of Alice - including an out of print...
PM - if you are interested in researching hidden meanings in more obscure poems, you might want to take a look at Carroll's 'The Three Voices' which is a truly...
Karoline Leach
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Mar 5, 2004 1:21 pm
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Katherine, I just read "The Three Voices." Help!! Can you comment on any aspect of it? Christine in Baltimore...
... I think it's unlikely that they are related. In Hungarian, the usual order is family_name given_name, not given_name family_name. Thus, these are two...
I agree about the 'help!' in regard to 3 Voices. I mean, where do you even start trying to unravel it? It's bizarrely surreal and modern. It seems to start...
Karoline Leach
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Mar 6, 2004 4:09 pm
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... Sixteen is one and four? Shouldn't it be 16 pennies makes one and four? And how is 5 greater than 10/6? (in this style?) Shouldn't it be "a fiver"? Bryan ...
Thank you for that Andre. I had not thought of that as a possibility. It is too easy, for me at least, to think English conventions apply in other languages. ...
I managed to pick up from a charity shop in Liverpool a copy of the W H Smith exclusive hardback with illustrations by Eric Kincaid and the Story Hour...
I've gone back through the group archives for any note of a prohibition against posting notices of auctions, etc., and see none. Allow me to send notice to the...
Hello--I am a new member here and wanted to say hi. I have been a Lewis Carroll fan for years and a modest collector of his works.I am sure I will enjoy being...
Hi Linda, Welcome to the group and thank you for introducing yourself. Be sure to check out our fabulous links for lots of information on LC and Alice. And if...
... five. They gave the waiter sixpence and said, "Keep the change." > ... And how is 5 greater than 10/6? (in this style?) Shouldn't it be "a fiver"?> Maybe...
Ruth Berman
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Mar 8, 2004 2:59 pm
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Subject: Re: [lewiscarroll] "half a guinea" P.S. comment -- The fact that the charge is measured in guineas indicates a posh establishment. Part of the joke is...
Ruth Berman
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Mar 8, 2004 3:46 pm
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Ruth, I really loved your story about your father's learning experience. Luckily we couldn't afford the "guinea charging" establishment when visiting England....
G'day there, A. Ten and six is sixteen; sixteen is one and four; one and four is five. They gave the waiter sixpence and said, "Keep the change." > ... four? ...
Thanks for the info on those Latin translations on eBay Bruce, I'll go have a look at the looking glass one certainly. I don't have that. In fact I didn't know...
Warren Weaver's "Alice in Many Tongues" covers translations up to 1960 or so (ABE shows copies from USD35 up). Edward Guilianio's "Lewis Carroll: An Annotated...
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