#lewis carroll

[thestuffedalligator]

Currently thinking about non-English translations of Jabberwocky, because it has to be so hard translating a nonsense poem.

And it’s not just making the nonsense words fit the translated language’s morphology, you have to have most of the nonsense words mean something for a later chapter in the book where Humpty Dumpty explains the portmanteau words. So in one Japanese translation, “frumious,” which is a portmanteau of “fuming” and “furious,” is translated as “takeburu,” which draws on the words “takeru,” fierce, and “keburu”, to smoke.

But I also just love the names of the Jabberwock in other languages. In French he’s le Jaseroque, der Jammerwoch in German, Barmaglot in Russian, and at least one Danish translation named him Kloppervok. It’s the one word you could very justifiably keep untranslated, but everyone wants to make the name fit, make it feel at home in the translation.

I have no point here, I just think it’s neat.

[enchantedbook]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll illustrated by Tove Jansson, 1966

[ladyphlogiston]

The time has come,' the Walrus said,

      To talk of many things:

Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —

      Of cabbages — and kings —

And why a fairy's at your door—

      And whether it has wings.'

[geekycleary]

“You might have noticed that I’m not all there myself”

Graphite pencil on 5” x 5” cardstock paper, geekycleary 2023

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[radiumjuice]

combining two of my favorite things

I FORGOT THE SECOND CHAIN

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Alice | 1988

[wwillywonka]

☆GET TO KNOW ME♡: [15/?] Favorite Movies

Alice in Wonderland (1951): dir Clyde Geronimi, et al.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

[ladydeath-vanserra]

wait there's people who think the Cheshire Cat is evil??? he's an annoying, riddle giving trickster who helps you in the most irritating way possible and challenges ur views and beliefs. he's not good or evil. he's a pain in the ass

[disease]

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND [1910]

[witchrealms]

alice in wonderland inspired fashion show by dances of vice, march 2010

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[lionofchaeronea]

The Pool of Tears (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Arthur Rackham, 1907

[yodaprod]

1915

[perfectfeelings]

I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

[enchantedbook]

Illustration from Lewis Carroll's 'Phantasmagoria' by Arthur B. Frost, 1884

[humanoidhistory]

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll was born on this day in 1832.

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Alice | 1988