Alice Liddell By Lewis Carroll
A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July–
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear–
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die.
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream–
Lingering in the golden gleam–
Life, what is it but a dream?
Acrostic poem for Alice Pleasance Liddell by Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)
Lewis Carroll adopted his pen name a year after he met
Alice Liddell.
We believe that a mathematician can find a symmetrical rational for anything, and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson found a way to link himself closer to the Liddells this way:
Lewis Carroll is derived from the reversed and transmogrified Christian names.
Lutwidge Ludovicus Lewis
Charles Carolus Carroll
As Saint Peter denied Christ 3 times, Lewis Carroll denied his master as well. Curioser and curioser…
The song that we have included in this blog is by Steven Pacia and Javier Hernandez-Miyares, and evokes the seizures and creativity of our dear charles:
Lewis Carroll, in his famous stories Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, was probably writing about his own temporal lobe seizures. The very sensation initiating Alice’ adventures- that of falling down a hole- is a familiar one to many people with seizures. Alice often feels that her own body (or the objects around her) is shrinking or growing before her eyes, another seizure symptom. Carroll recorded his seizures, which were followed by prolonged headaches and feeling not his usual self, in his journal.
The following music was recorded and written by Steven Pacia and Javier Hernandez-Miyares at Sinlab Studio in Sunnyside 2002.
Dear Charles by Sinlab