Friday, February 19, 2010

JABBERWOCKY

Lewis Carroll 

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

Alice was real. She was the daughter of the dean of Christ College at Oxford University. Lewis Carroll was a student here and was inspired to write Through the Looking Glass and Alice in Wonderland. Alice had a cat and looked through the garden gate key hole to see the garden she wasn't aloud inside of. The tree is I think several hundred years old and is named the Jabberwocky. I didn't catch the whole story, but I think Lewis Carol liked Alice as a girl and used her as inspiration for his books.
 


  

  
Alice's grave


  
Tori posing as Alice.

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