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The perpetually sobbing turtle symbolizes the Rev. Charles Dodgson (who stutteringly performs the character's song to a young adult Alice's derision). After making her peace with Dodgson's memory, following an Oxford University choir's performance of "The Mock Turtle Song," Alice dreams again, with Dodgson in a crouching position akin to that ...
"The Lobster Quadrille" is a song written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). It is a parody of " The Spider and the Fly " by Mary Botham Howitt . It appeared in Chapter 10 of Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , and was sung by a character in the book, the Mock Turtle .
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (/ ˈ l ʌ t w ɪ dʒ ˈ d ɒ d s ən / LUT-wij DOD-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon.
The White Knight is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass. He represents the chess piece of the same name. As imagined in John Tenniel's illustrations for the Alice stories, he is inspired by Albrecht Dürer's 1513 engraving "Knight, Death and the Devil." [1]
Charlie Lovett (born 1962 in Winston-Salem, NC) is an American novelist, podcast producer, children's playwright and expert on the works and life of Lewis Carroll.He has the world's largest collection of Carollean memorabilia and was twice president of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America.
One of several songs Bowie wrote about Nineteen Eighty-Four [53] [31] "When the War Came" The Decemberists: Hunger: Elise Blackwell [206] "White Rabbit" Surrealistic Pillow: Jefferson Airplane: Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll [207] "William, It Was Really Nothing" Hatful of Hollow: The Smiths: Billy Liar: Keith Waterhouse [208] [209] "Willie ...
The 1980s were possibly the most fertile decade for the consumerist cash-grab intersection between notable pop culture IPs and novelty Christmas music. A plethora of beloved toy-and-TV franchise ...
"All in the golden afternoon" is the preface poem in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The introductory poem recalls the afternoon that he improvised the story about Alice in Wonderland while on a boat trip from Oxford to Godstow, for the benefit of the three Liddell sisters: Lorina Charlotte (the flashing "Prima"), Alice Pleasance (the hoping "Secunda"), and Edith ...