Elmer Paisley:

Illustrations by Mervyn Peake

kazy-necrus:

▶ "Něco z Alenky" / "Alice" | Jan Švankmajer, 1988

_{“She’s rather a violent young girl, isn’t she?” – but its glorious proliferation of magical transformations works like a charm on anyone who values the imagination.”}

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hannahlmr:

Lewis Carroll, “The Mouse’s Tale” from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

In Martin Gardner’s Annotated Alice, he mentioned that the original version of the tale might be “a more appropriate one, for it fulfills the mouse’s promise to explain why he dislikes cats and dogs” (p. 50-51) (top image). He suggested that Carroll got the idea for this figurative poem from Tennyson (p. 50):

Tennyson once told Carroll that he had dreamed a lengthy poem about fairies, which began with very long lines, then the lines got shorter and shorter until the poem ended with fifty or sixty lines of two syllables each. (Tennyson thought highly of the poem in his sleep, but forgot it completely when he awoke.)

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