Morphosis
Thursday, 29 October 2015
Alice 3: Animals in Wonderland
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I'm rather intrigued by the notion (which, I'm ashamed to confess, only recently occurred to me) that Tenniel's Alice's ...
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Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Alice 2: Up With The Smoke And How Alice Flew; or, How I'd Like To Write A New Alice Book
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If the rule of three should obtain anywhere, it ought to apply to the fairy tale logicworld of the Alice books. Nor am I the first pers...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Alice 1: Through the Looking-Glass and What Apuleius Found There
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To start by approaching one author who had a profound shaping effect upon the younger me by means of another author who had a profound s...
Monday, 26 October 2015
Granville on Egyptian Mummies (1825)
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The text is dry enough, but the illustrations are rather fine. I especially like the engraving of the skull-with-ears. ...
Macbeth Act 4 Scene 1
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The famous scene, where the Witches boil two gigantic letters T into soup. From the title page of this edition:
Thursday, 22 October 2015
Midnight on Saturn, 1879
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A lovely image, this, from Sun, Moon and Stars (1879) by Victorian children's author and popular educator Agnes Giberne . That...
War and Peace (not the Tolstoy one)
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1862, this. Predates Война и миръ by seven years. 'A.L.O.E.' stands for 'A Lady of England', the pseudonym under whic...
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