Tuesday, June 15, 2010

I thought everyone hated tim burtons alice in wonderland but i saw it on the plane & thought it was great?

print: Lewis Carroll

"Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes."


In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History--I will take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened.


The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished, and it more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it, that no one on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to.

-from The Hunting of The Snark

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