Tweeds in the Land of Nod
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 10:17:21 CDT 2010
notes:
David Lockwood: Pictorial Puzzles from Alice
http://www.david-lockwood.co.uk/pdfs/12_Pictorial_Puzzles_in_Alice.pdf
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:45 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> How the Pyncher doth pinch with his Vicegrips.
> Living in the Land of Nod
> Trustin’ their fate to the Hands of God
> They pass by so silently
> Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee
> --Dylan
>
> T&T don't belong to Zimmerman or to Dodgson, but to an argument over
> the merit of two composers. Sound familiar? And to John Byrom, double
> agent. Of course, Alice does carol here and the elephants do not stomp
> on the Jews and The prince of Fortune turns his back to Aristotle's
> and thus cardinal and chrisitan virtues intellectual and moral, but
> our Tweeds of Baedeker Land live in Nod, that wandering land of Cain,
> and in the pun on "Nod" or dream or through the looking lass. Is it a
> cracked looking glass? James Joyce.
>
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