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Long Leaf's Friends "The Hunting of the Snark" There’s a new hidden object game proving popular in all the usual online fora. It’s called… The Hunting of the Snark. The story is a little adapted – obviously – and the party encounter two monsters who may or may not be Snarks. It’s a little confusing [...] Jehad Nga for the New York Times An article on Libya in last week’s Sunday Times Magazine was topped with this surreal image of an abandoned teacup ride inside Muammar Gaddafi’s compound. The Surreal Ruins of Quaddafi’s Never Never Land made no mention of the improbable amusement park but the image – in which [...] A few weeks ago we blogged about the Arne Nixon Center‘s Alice exhibitions currently on display in Fresno, California. One of the artists featured in the collection is Karen Mortillaro, who does amazing “anamorphic” bronze sculptures. What is anamorphosis, you might ask? Over the past thirteen years, Mortillaro has been exploring anamorphia. A concept taken from [...] Why do adults read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? One Cambridge academic thinks is might be “a symbolic retreat from the disappointment of reality.” Really? Really? In yesterday’s online edition of the UK Independent, Rob Sharp, the arts correspondent, reported on a forthcoming book by Dr Louise Joy under the title “Why do adults read children’s [...] Michael Stern Hart passed away September 6th. The Christian Science Monitor reports: In today’s world, e-books are everywhere – on the subway, in the library, on line at the post office, and even on a sunny beach. But in 1971, such accessibility and popularity was unimaginable. Yet that was when Project Gutenberg founder Michael Stern [...] Fishs Eddy ($2.50) It looks like Fishs Eddy might be liquidating their line of Alice in Wonderland dinnerware. Cereal bowls, drinking glasses, and plates are now 50% off and many of the items listed last time we checked have disappeared with nary a smile or a wink. If you have ever wanted that Tenniel [...] The British Library has a new project: high-definition images of their most precious manuscripts available for download by one and all. These eBook Treasures are viewed in a virtual “3D” environment where you can zoom in, turn pages, search content and generally do everything but smell the paper or spill your coffee on it. This [...] RU ready? New York author Susan Crimp has written an updated version of Alice’s Adventures entirely in text-speak. Alice’s Adventures in NYC: The text generation is available for Kindle from Amazon with plans for a print edition “soon.” In addition Crimp is working on two similar books, Through The NYC Looking Glass and Great Textpectations, [...] Has your Monday been too mimsy? Not mimsy enough? Never fear, here is a recording of Jabberwocky read by Sir Christopher Lee, famous for playing Count Dracula, Saruman, Scaramanga and countless other tall and sinister men. According to the host site Metacafe, the recording was made at the British Library sometime last year and uploaded [...] AAIW illustrated by Harry Rountree The new handsome facsimile of the Harry Rountree Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has a notable provenance: the type specimen for this imprint was borrowed from the library of LCSNA president Mark Burstein. Originally published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1901, the book has been freshly typeset but includes all 92 [...] |
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