2015 is the Sesquicentennial Year of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis CarrollDrawings by John Tenniel

By Alleen Nilsen andDon Nilsen

Alleen Nilsen preparing one of her displays. Note that our cat is in the background.

A Speech Pathologist’s Perspective:

Joseph Agius, a Speech Language Pathologist, pointed out that Lewis Carroll stuttered and so he surrounded himself with children who made him felel easy.

He especially enjoyed the company of a particular child named Alice.

If Lewis Carrol had not stuttered and Lewis Carroll had not met Alice Liddell, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland may never have been written.

Some Commercial Alice-in-Wonderland Sites:

Lenny’s Alice in Wonderland Site:http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/

Douglas Adams’ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

If you’ve done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe?

Ngaio Marsh has published a novel with the title, Off with His Head.

The Matrix:

MORPHEUS: I imagine that right now, you’re feeling a bit like Alice. Hmmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?

NEO: You could say that.

MORPHEUS: You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next—Literary Detective

Thursday Next has a pet dodo developed from a V2.3 Dodo Home Cloning Kit.

The Bellman, from Hunting of the Snark is a major character in the series.

The Cheshire Cat is a head librarian.

Alice and the Pig Baby

ALICE: It would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

Alice in Wonderland

Peter and Alice: a London Play Starring Judi Dench

Alice and the Cheshire Cat

Alice: “Drink Me”Jefferson Airplane: “The White Rabbit”:http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/jefferson-airplane

Cheshire Cat and King and Queen of Hearts

Gryphon, Mock Turtle and Alice

Humpty Dumpty and Aliceand the Alice Band

The Alice Band originated around 1865, just after the publication of Lew Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.

In this novel, Alice is shown wearing a ribbon to keep her long hair out of her face.

HUMPTY DUMPTY: When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

ALICE: The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things.

HUMPTY DUMPTY: The question is, which is to be master—that’s all.Through the Looking Glass

Jabberwocky Nonsense Poem:http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jabberwocky/

CONTENT WORDS: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs are nonsenseNONSENSE

FUNCTION WORDS: Articles, Conjunctions, Auxiliary Verbs, Prepositions, PronounsWRITTEN AS USUAL

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgabe

Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunThe frumious Bandersnatch?

Alice in Wonderland

Jubjub Tree, Bandersnatch, Slithy Toves, Jabberwocky, & the Jabberwock Inn in Monterey, California

King and Queen of HeartsQUEEN OF HEARTS: Off with their heads.

Alice in Wonderland

Mad Hatter

Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

Other Tea Parties

March Hare

MARCH HARE: Then you should say what you mean.”

ALICE: I do…, at least I mean what I say, that’s the same thing, you know.”

MARCH HARE: Not the same thing a bit! Why, you might just as well say that “I see what I eat” is the same thing as “I eat what I see!”

Mock Turtle, Gryphon and Alice

The Mouse and Alice

Tweedledum and Tweedledeeand Bob Dylan’s “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum”

http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/tweedle-dee-tweedle-dum

The White Rabbit

WHITE QUEEN: Can you do addition? What’s one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?ALICE: I don’t know. I lost count.

ALICE: One can’t believe impossible things.WHITE QUEEN: When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Through the Looking Glass

The different branches of Arithmetic:Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision

WHITE QUEEN: It’s very good jam

ALICE: Well, I don’t want any to-day, at any rate.

WHITE QUEEN: You couldn’t have it if you did want it. The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam to-day.

ALICE: It must come sometimes to “jam to-day,”WHITE QUEEN: No it can’t. It’s jam every other day; to-day isn’t any other day, you know.

Through the Looking Glass

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland: Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter,Mia Wasikowska as Alice, and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen

Parody of Alice, Dorothy, Toto and the Cheshire Cat

List of ContributorsJoseph Agius Carolynn Bramlett Patricia BrickLinda Coleman Bernie DeKoven Stephanie DeLuséHenk Maarten de Jongste Winifred Doane Bruce FindleyEllen Johnson Donna Lillian Mariann MartinMichael Meany Wendell Pace Don PresnellJoann Tongret