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Definition from Oxford English Dictionary, credited to Lewis Carroll. Frumious: Combination of "fuming" and "furious". In the Preface to The Hunting of the Snark Carroll comments, "[T]ake the two words 'fuming' and 'furious'. Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and ...
When Alice sees the White King next, in a later chapter, he is, along with many other characters in the story, the size of a normal adult. Humpty Dumpty, as a chesspiece, is "taken" (symbolised by his notorious fall from where he sits) and the White King appears with his soldiers, presumably in hopes of putting him back together.
Alice clarifies that she said he looks like an egg, not that he is one. They then go on discuss semantics and pragmatics [28] when Humpty Dumpty says, "my name means the shape I am". [29] A. J. Larner suggested that Carroll's Humpty Dumpty had prosopagnosia on the basis of his description of his finding faces hard to recognise: [30]
Humpty Dumpty wearing the cravat he received as an unbirthday present from the White King and Queen. From Through the Looking-Glass, illustration by John Tenniel. An unbirthday (originally written un-birthday) is an event celebrated on all days of the year which are not a person's birthday.
Scene 8 The River – Young Alice, Alice, Lewis Carroll, sheep. Alice, accompanied by Lewis Carroll and the Young Alices, embark on a boat journey on "a perfect summer's day". Alice leaning out of the boat trying to grasp the rushes and Carroll remembering how the story poured from him, while a sheep knits, unobserved by Alice. Scene 9 Humpty ...
Run, white rabbit, run. Even after the actors take their bows in the Children's Theatre Company's breathless production of "Alice in Wonderland," you get the feeling that Alice is still chasing ...
Lewis Carroll photograph of Beatrice Hatch, colourised on Carroll's instructions Cohen goes on to note that Dodgson "apparently convinced many of his friends that his attachment to the nude female child form was free of any eroticism ", but adds that "later generations look beneath the surface" (p. 229).
But Never Jam Today was a 1979 musical with music by Bert Keyes and Bob Larimer, lyrics by Larimer, and a book by both Larimer and Vinnette Carroll. [1] The musical is based on the works of Lewis Carroll, and takes its title from the "jam tomorrow" discussion in Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass.