tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post7694179859908311942..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: The Wrong AliceGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-85985265750377096832012-04-29T04:45:54.646+12:002012-04-29T04:45:54.646+12:00...using another Liddell, Henry George, to root th......using another Liddell, Henry George, to root the name, Alice=alys(Gk)=listless(E). list(E)=desire,=t/le(s)t/l(letra)=tletl=fire.<br />so, listless Alys/Alice=no desire, or simply,<br />atle/atley/atlein(N)=nothing/no fire.<br />...other words in the greek string have the meaning of chain, distress, anguish, flee, shun, a plant to check hiccup, a fountain to cure rabies/Alysson(Arcadia).<br />.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07439118473886861260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-78926002816492633272011-10-04T06:36:36.364+13:002011-10-04T06:36:36.364+13:00She is to become, after all, a venture capitalist
...<i>She is to become, after all, a venture capitalist</i><br /><br />Perfectly written - that line's almost physically jarring. <br /><br />The poster strapline could easily have been 'Time To Grow Up'... or even 'The Dream Is Over.'<br /><br /><b>metrsyco</b> - A Delaware-based corporation with interests in processed meat, office projector accessories, geriatric care and digitalbenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02897778109902659594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-48846363840811656212010-08-05T14:57:23.482+12:002010-08-05T14:57:23.482+12:00Monty Python funnier in Czech, Laurel and Hardy ar...<i>Monty Python funnier in Czech, Laurel and Hardy are very much funnier in Italian.</i><br /><br />Heh, well, yes, it was freaking <i>Alberto Sordi</i> who dubbed Hardy! I think Oreste Lionello trumps Woody Allen too, in fact Allen would probably agree (he almost nixed Italian release of one of his films when the local distributor threatened not to get Lionello to do the dubbing).Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-4546049181649267452010-08-03T04:33:08.711+12:002010-08-03T04:33:08.711+12:00Re: Monty Python funnier in Czech, Laurel and Hard...Re: Monty Python funnier in Czech, Laurel and Hardy are very much funnier in Italian.<br /><br />I'm fascinated that Burton and Depp have become / were always? / Victorian moralists. As if the Enlightenment never unwound, and the absurd is just a foil for right thinking.Carlhttp://deadvoles.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-42258118094675658722010-05-30T20:01:58.332+12:002010-05-30T20:01:58.332+12:00Alice in the Sinking Garden
A tender adder, lumin...Alice in the Sinking Garden<br /><br />A tender adder, luminous after rain,<br />leaves dew-bound tail traces in the grass<br />that grows and doubles over by the seat,<br />itself the old gatekeeper of the sinkhole.<br /><br />That boggy, grotty circle just three feet wide<br />rises and drops unaligned with night or day.<br />A deeper indentation just past the centre<br />still marks the place Megan Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584562106579704547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-86731783332760953852010-04-29T10:16:25.717+12:002010-04-29T10:16:25.717+12:00Exploding heads mmmmmmmmmmmExploding heads mmmmmmmmmmmAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-65712471889902249962010-04-29T10:13:46.862+12:002010-04-29T10:13:46.862+12:00I'm now envisioning this as some kind of gende...<i>I'm now envisioning this as some kind of gender-switched Victorian *Memento* on acid. Which I could totally get on board with.</i><br /><br />I suspect it would make my head explode. But in a good way.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-20326463169601942242010-04-29T09:50:44.721+12:002010-04-29T09:50:44.721+12:00The only question is...who is to be Queen...
There...The only question is...who is to be Queen...<br />There is a great degree of alchemical allusion in AIW and LOTR...<br /><br />pocal, annotated poetical.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-91422234980810987892010-04-29T09:50:26.694+12:002010-04-29T09:50:26.694+12:00Now you won't believe this Evan but I've j...Now you won't believe this Evan but I've just marked a page of Falling Out of Cars as "must send to Evan". Which I will do this week.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-2858140194554787432010-04-29T09:47:55.420+12:002010-04-29T09:47:55.420+12:00great post, obviously. But now you've got me ...great post, obviously. But now you've got me thinking about Jeff Noon again. Which means that you've got me thinking about droidlocks and streets filled with broken glass. Again.ECWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-35294448624487413012010-04-29T09:37:49.672+12:002010-04-29T09:37:49.672+12:00"Hey, that's an idea - an Alice with anno..."Hey, that's an idea - an Alice with annotative tattoos..."<br /><br />I'm now envisioning this as some kind of gender-switched Victorian *Memento* on acid. Which I could totally get on board with.Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12633616551506978330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-13389861390646186692010-04-28T12:12:52.953+12:002010-04-28T12:12:52.953+12:00I did wonder if another reason they made Alice old...<i>I did wonder if another reason they made Alice older was because y'know, they were worried about the Dodgeson-and-little-girls thing.</i><br /><br />Oh, I doubt that very much. It's Carroll's scholarship that is positively obssessed with that thought, but Dodgson is not a character in the book (unlike in Automated Alice, incidentally) and doesn't have to feature. But I don'Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-56052771713115650102010-04-27T13:37:50.992+12:002010-04-27T13:37:50.992+12:00Thanks Gio- very cool commentary on this Not-Alice...Thanks Gio- very cool commentary on this Not-Alice. <br />I did wonder if another reason they made Alice older was because y'know, they were worried about the Dodgeson-and-little-girls thing. <br />But yes, the Manichean aspects of C S Lewis and Tolkein that carry through to Harry Potter (and this film) are fascinating- not least because they seem to relate to the immense, tidal popularity ofrobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11518548366478775367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-9649452334817260542010-04-27T10:34:02.248+12:002010-04-27T10:34:02.248+12:00Without forgetting the Duchess' passion for fi...Without forgetting the Duchess' passion for finding morals in Alice in Wonderland or the pre-emptive justice doled out in the kingdom of the Red Queen in Through the Looking-Glass. <br /><br /><i>`What sort of things do you remember best?' Alice ventured to ask.<br />`Oh, things that happened the week after next,' the Queen replied in a careless tone. `For instance, now,' she wentGiovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-31736944393780619512010-04-27T09:29:38.077+12:002010-04-27T09:29:38.077+12:00if anything the idea that children’s stories shoul...<i>if anything the idea that children’s stories should have a moral is lampooned throughout</i><br /><br />And quite directly; all the poem except the Jabberwocky are parodies of the kind of recitation poem it was felt were Good For Young Children.<br /><br />(Much indebted to <i>The Annotated Alice</i> [Hey, that's an idea - an Alice with annotative tatoos...])Lyndonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622953598107216261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-68106711791049295602010-04-27T09:08:59.361+12:002010-04-27T09:08:59.361+12:00For a brief moment I thought he might have transla...For a brief moment I thought he might have translated them into English, Nabokov being Nabokov. <br /><br />I also want to register that we have a(n English) friend who insists that Monty Python is funnier in Czech.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-39432124689898029832010-04-27T09:07:01.770+12:002010-04-27T09:07:01.770+12:00Thanks heaps for this, I really enjoyed it. We are...Thanks heaps for this, I really enjoyed it. We are reading Carroll at the moment. I loved what you said about the idea of morals in the book - I love it. <br /><br />I went to a great talk last year by Byran Boyd about Nabokov the translator. Boyd mentioned Nabokov had translated Carroll and I remember thinking, 'Of course he did.' They seem such a match to me. My favourite factoid was Daphne Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12647424992568651029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-56238642128209520062010-04-27T09:04:56.523+12:002010-04-27T09:04:56.523+12:00This comment has been removed by the author.Daphne Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12647424992568651029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-1095877950398862442010-04-27T08:17:48.284+12:002010-04-27T08:17:48.284+12:00I think it's pretty obvious that I do.I think it's pretty obvious that I do.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-63045730828820057302010-04-27T08:10:25.560+12:002010-04-27T08:10:25.560+12:001. brillante
2. luminoso
3. splendido
4. ...1. brillante<br /> 2. luminoso<br /> 3. splendido<br /> 4. sfolgorante<br /><br />You have saved me from viewing a travesty, 1. grazie<br />Thank you Google translator machine.<br /><br />wv; inevitio, Gio do you get your wordverfs custom made?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.com