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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 _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail is evolving - check out the new Windows Live Hotmail http://get.live.com/betas/mail_betas