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"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.
Jazz fusion band Bruford recorded a song entitled "Fainting in Coils," which is included as the fifth track of the band's 1979 release One of a Kind. The song includes narration by Sam Alder, Anthea Norman Taylor and band founder Bill Bruford as the Mock Turtle, consisting of a 74-word excerpt from "The Mock Turtle's Story." In this excerpt ...
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.
Album Musical artist Literary work Author Comments Citations An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1: Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time: Michael Moorcock: Three albums covering the three books of the trilogy. The Black Halo: Kamelot: Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 ...
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 ."
Lewis Carroll's nyctographic alphabet. Each character had a large dot or circle in the upper-left corner. Beside the 26 letters of the alphabet, there were five additional characters for 'and', 'the', the corners of the letter 'f' to indicate that the following characters were digits ('figures'), the corners of the letter 'l' to indicate that they were letters, and the corners of the letter 'd ...