I haven’t heard of Tenniel, but isn’t it amazing how Dodgson created a whole
world with “Alice …”
I’m on a fast Internet connection slowed by my distance from the Access Point.
We’re in Cornwall, west of St Ives, having driven here from the Quantock Hills
in Somerset today; it’s piddling down with rain and the sea and sky are grey,
but it’s relaxing nonetheless.
Chris in a Caravan :-)
> On 2 Sep 16, at 20:46, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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