Coincidence

CoverOne winter night at half past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,
I had come home, too late to dine,
And supper, with cigars and wine,
Was waiting in the study.


Lewis Carroll, Phantasmagoria, Canto I, The Trystyng
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For the last two days my small universe is suffering a kind of brutal collapse. Here came The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll by Wordsworth Editions. 1160 pages full of tiny ideas should take me somewhere far far from reality. I entered this bookstore and I couldn’t leave the book there. So I paid it and I took it with me. The question for now is will I be tricky enough to steal some time for it?

Which is your favourite Lewis Carroll's story?

2 comments:

  1. what about 'the walrus and the carpenter'?

    http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/wonderland/walrus.htm

    those little oysters with feet look so pitiful..

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  2. oh wait, one of my favorites isn't from 'through the looking glass', but from some other poems he wrote. It is called 'A Sea Dirge' and is a bitterly sarcastic description of a trip to the ocean.

    http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3045&poem=17256

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