We're not so far away - but there's a bit of water in the way - we're on
the Isles of Scilly.
Wills and Kate were here yesterday too...
Jez
On Sunday, 4 September 2016, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 <javascript:;> <mailto:
> olymoose@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>>> 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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