I'm reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the first time. I swear, it's like he just made shit up as he went along. "So she sees a rabbit and goes down a hole and then drinks something and eats something and cries a giant pool and runs in a race and gets trapped in a house and see a big puppy and then meets a caterpillar on a mushroom."
In fact, I'm pretty sure that's exactly how the story came about, with him making up a story off the top of his head to tell Alice Liddell.
And I think it's also classed as literary nonsense, along with Hec's Flann O'Brien.
(Why yes, I am ignoring the Laurell K. Hamilton talk, although I appreciate the existence of silly porn without the boom-chika-wakka soundtrack)
In fact, I'm pretty sure that's exactly how the story came about, with him making up a story off the top of his head to tell Alice Liddell.
Ha! That makes a lot of sense, because that's totally how it reads.
And I think it's also classed as literary nonsense
That's a good class to put it in.
LKH writes boring sex 90% orgies with only one female involved. I find it hugely funny that men can have sex with other men, but women are only having sex with men in ANY of LKH's universe.
After you read Alice - pick up a copy of
The looking Glass wars
I'm only part way thru it - but it is an interesting spin on Alice.
Do the men have sex with each other in the Anita books? I don't remember that, I remember it being all about Anita and the hetero sex only.
After you read Alice - pick up a copy of The looking Glass wars
I talked to the author of that at Wondercon!
After I read
Alice,
I'm actually reading
Through the Looking Glass.
Alice
and
Through the looking glass
are one to me. Even though the second was written under heavy influence . ( I thought that as an innocent child)
I'm reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the first time. I swear, it's like he just made shit up as he went along.
He totally does. When I was reading the British cult kids book
Uncle
I noticed the same thing. "He's just making shit up!" Then realized that this is a bit part of the bagginess of Narnia (here's a faun, here's a giant sized swashbuckling rat...), and also a part of the Harry Potter books.
I've concluded that "Just Making Shit Up" is an actual British fantasy tradition.
I wrote a paper in Victorian Lit on "Alice's Search for Identity." The paper was mostly bullshit, but it got an A+ from the prof, so I'm not complaining.
(this is before she gest the sex powers)
This may be my favorite typo ever.
After you read Alice - pick up a copy of The looking Glass wars
I'm going to assume this isn't the LeCarre novel.
