Don't know whether I support a ban on exporting Carroll's photos, but it intrigues me that if the British are so fond of their heritage why does an aweful lot...
pleasanceone wrote:photos ... Oh Deb you are so generous! I can hear the sighing and drooling. I'm afraid I'm not that nice. I'd keep it/them, but I would...
Dayna McCausland
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Feb 1, 2002 2:13 pm
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Deb wrote: < locked away in Princeton > They are not LOCKED away in Princeton. Oh, this is getting tiring! It's not how I look at it and it is simply the...
... While of course we can have no proof that Morton Cohen has _read_ 'In the Shadow of the Dreamchild', I can reveal that he definitely has _bought_ a copy as...
... I fear that Dr. Adams doesn't know to pronounce "bona fides". "Fides" is supposed to be disyllabic; it rhymes with "tidies", not with "tides". Reminds me...
I was in a community college bookstore this week and browsed into the children's literature class materials. There was a large expensive textbook that had a...
<< I fear that Dr. Adams doesn't know to pronounce "bona fides". "Fides" is supposed to be disyllabic; it rhymes with "tidies", not with "tides". >> But...
... We have it as "Jabberwocky" by R.C. Evarts and E.L. Barron from "Alice's Adventures in Cambridge." You'd think they could have come up with a better title...
Dayna McCausland
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Feb 1, 2002 8:18 pm
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... The fourth line is a bit unusual: "And the": trochee (In iambic verse, a trochee is common in the first foot of a line.) "mome raths": spondee caesura (I...
... No, "Jabberwocky" was indeed the title. The poem should be credited to R(ichard) C(onover) Evarts alone; E. L. Barron was the illustrator. The parodies...
The first verse is basically iambic. The last line is funny and is spoken exactly as you say. But I think Carroll saw it as / ~ ~ / ~ /, doing exactly what...
I'm not reading anything on this list at the moment, but I've been told by one of my antipathean friends that someone has raised the issue of the Dodgson...
In a message dated 02/02/2002 11:09:27 GMT Standard Time, KarolineLouise@... writes: << It might be tempting to conclude they prefer the myth of Carroll...
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Feb 2, 2002 12:02 pm
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... Well, Karoline, I (the "one contributor") knew nothing about the "plea" except what I had read in your own earlier posting! I'm sorry if I got the wrong...
*Definitely* one point for you, Matt! All my life I've been missing the inner rhyme in "So rested he by the Tum-Tum tree." And I was puzzling yesterday over...
<< I've also been missing the fact that every verse in Jabberwocky follows the pattern 4 feet, 4 feet, 4 feet, 3 feet. >> I guess it was before you were a...
I've often encountered the word "Manx". It rhymes with "banks" (or with what Lewis Carroll would have considered the proper pronuncation of "thanks" -- you'll...
In a message dated 02/02/2002 13:58:09 GMT Standard Time, MarkIsrael@... writes: << John, I don't know whom your remarked was aimed at. Karoline asked why...
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Next week's Times Literary Supplement Feb 10: Karoline Leach tells "The Truth About Lewis Carroll" -- ===================== ROSS CHAMBERS SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA ...
Don't just leave it at that! What's the gist of it K? Keith ... From: "Ross Chambers" <maelduin@...> To: "Lewis Carroll Discussion"...
keith
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Feb 3, 2002 9:56 am
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I'm sorry Keith and all--I have no inside information of course--this was a "TLS Next Week" line from the current electronic edition, thus merely an alert to...
... According to the issue of "Jabberwocky" devoted to the Nursery Alice, a couple of the original coloured pictures have survived. They *were* mechanically ...
... supposed to be disyllabic; it rhymes with "tidies", not with "tides". > It's supposed to be pronounced as a disyllable in terms of its origin from Latin,...
Ruth Berman
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Feb 5, 2002 3:13 pm
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Thanks for looking it up, Ruth. I did check one dictionary before posting (Oxford Canadian, which only gives the two-syllable pronunciation); but I didn't...
fee-dess. fee-dess. fee-dess. Oh, and Jisra'el, come to think of it... :-) beitlamed __________________________________________________________________ ...
... Tsk, tsk, what *do* they teach them in these schools? :-) To an ancient Roman, _fides_ with a long i and long e ("fee-dayss") would have meant "a stringed...
