On 9/2/2016 10:57 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
My apology. I guess I'm not modern enough. I interpreted going down a rabbit hole as running into a dead end. Then I
thought about it more after your response and realized that it refers to going down an Alice in Wonderland sort of
rabbit hole.
I've always had the second understanding, from long before the internet. Alice is, after all, from 1865. One of the
little treasures I have from childhood is the 1946 Random House 'Special Editions' of Alice and Looking Glass, with the
John Tenniel illustrations, colored by Fritz Kredel.
We saw an exhibit about both Alices, Dodgson and the books at the Morgan in NY last year. A fair amount of interesting
stuff, including many different illustrations. Although I did later acquire "Alice's Adventures Underground", which is
mostly his original, hand lettered manuscript and his own illustrations, the colored Tenniel illustrations will always
be for me the way the books 'should' look - well, the way Wonderland looks. ;-)
One can see how Tenniel worked from Dodgson's original drawings, which gives
his illustrations an extra authenticity.
And, more particularly these days, going down that Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole on the internet with links to
everywhere.
Ada in Babbage Land? The Analytical Engine and Ada's notes that first describe in print the idea of programming do
precede Alice, but nothing further comes of them until much later.
Thanks for causing me to update myself.
O. S. Update Moose
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