Thursday musings of Lewis mainly

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Now this divided thought between nonsense or not

Really I an interesting debate that is a fact

This chapter of the Pig and Pepper, is it just an act?

Here Alice found the babe turn into a pig with a snout

And the poor babe whipped at ever sneeze pepper if you please?

That horrid Duchess modelled with the artistic eye copying Leonardo's monsters

Now on looking back in Penguin guest what I found.

Lewis just didn’t like boys, too difficult to teach girls got things quick.*

 *this was paraphrased from “Notes to Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland “page 310

State that in a letter written by the said Lewis Carroll and I quote

“Boys are not in my line: I think they are a mistake: girls are less objectionable.”

O I see now not so much silly nonsense but his self- expression …. Just done in a way to laugh at himself? 


Obviously had some issues here that he really should have be born

Within our time to be allowed to come out and shout about how he felt

Deep inside, fancy not seeing boys as being equal to girls

Seeing them as a lost cause?  Now the shoe is on the other foot

Poor boys need to be given their manly manliness back some how

To equal out the score of so many not to be seen as just pigs… well by Lewis Carroll at least.

On further reading in those notes

I stumbled on, another great piece of information

 That grinning Cat, “Cheshire Cat”

Was named after a block of Cheese

Cheese from Cheshire if you please

Shaped like cats that where meant to be LIONS?

(The mould was stuffed up somehow)

Oh I must add here a beautiful poem

The original that Lewis Carroll changed

For his expression of self-hate, being male and all

So to follow after this please feast your eyes on

“Speak Gently” by David Bates from The Eolian, 1849

Really an eye opener about the change in attitudes of the times

Now many read into Alice and Wonderland

Many a meaning and a weaving but to have

Some historical content of how it was then

In Lewis Carroll’s time Alice becomes

A history lesson too, giving us more layers to see

Why did he write that and like that….. gee so many layers like onions

Speak gently! It is better far

To rule by love than fear;

Speak gently; let no harsh word mar

The good we might do here!

Speak gently! Love doth whisper low

The vows that a true hearts bind;

And gently friendship’s accents flow;

Affection’s voice is kind.

Speak gently to the little child!

Its love be sure to gain;

Teach it in accents soft and mild;

It may not long remain.

Speak gently to the young, for they

Will have enough to bear;

Pass through this life as best they may,

Tis full anxious care. 

David Bates from The Eolian in 1849 and in his complete works (1870)

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