I've always thought Rossetti's Goblin Market is pretty weird.
On 4/29/07, Edmund Hardy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >Works for me - although Deleuze, rather than Badiou, is probably the
> >go-to guy for continental musings on Lewis Carroll...
>
>
> Every now and again the opinion is aired in the French literary press that
> Carroll was far too intelligent to be English. . . Deleuze was writing
> The
> Logic of Sense in the middle of a Carroll boom in France due to Sylvie and
> Bruno being translated for the first time.
>
> Sylvie and Bruno works for me - the Gardener: I thought I saw an elephant
> play upon the fife / I looked again and saw it was a letter from my
> wife....
>
> - edmund
>
>
>
> >*The Hunting of the Snark*, P tricky P. Life before the Boojum was
> >straightforwardly mundane - the B changed all that, casting an ominous
> >light of weord/wyrd upon the human strivings represented by the hunting;
> >as Dom says " a novel truth - an enormity - which is then retroactively
> >normalised" - "For the Snark *was* a Boojum, you see".
> >You see?
>
> Works for me - although Deleuze, rather than Badiou, is probably the
> go-to guy for continental musings on Lewis Carroll...
>
> Dominic
>
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