07 Tuesday Apr 2015
Posted in Stories
The first Alice film ever is this tiny 1903 silent, a relic from the very infancy of cinema…
Just think: a hundred and twelve years ago. Continue reading
17 Tuesday Mar 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
Couldn’t help myself. And it isn’t my fault, either: I saw the K. quote, and the conversation dawned on me – just like that.
Er… right. Enough. I think I’ll disappear for now… -ow… -ow… -ow… -ow…
♫ ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves… ♫
14 Saturday Mar 2015
Posted in Books, Eccentricities
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Alice in Wonderland, Harry Ransom Center, Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalì, University of Texas at Austin, Vladimir Nabokov
Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
The original 1923 cover by Zalshupin for Anya in Wonderland, young Nabokov’s Russian not-quite-translation from Lewis Carroll, with changed names and Russian nursery-rhymes…
Who knew? Or that Salvador Dalì once made illustrations for Alice? All of this and much more can be seen in this fascinating exhibition at the Ransom Center of the University of Texas.
