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Post by UnseenI on Aug 6, 2019 6:41:32 GMT
Sussex, Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland
Despite the best efforts of interested parties, no evidence that Lewis Carroll ever visited the Welsh seaside resort of Llandudno in person has been found - although he is known to have visited Anglesey as a small boy. He did like Sussex seaside resorts though. He had 19 holidays in Eastbourne and stayed with a friend in Brighton for 14 consecutive years. All this happened between 1874 and 1896. When in Brighton Lewis Carroll stayed in Sussex Square. He particularly liked the private gardens that were created in the square and neighbouring Lewes Crescent. Carroll was fascinated by the tunnel that goes from the gardens under the coast road towards the beach. There is a story that it inspired the rabbit hole and tunnel scene in Alice in Wonderland, in which case Carroll would have to have visited Brighton long before 1874. I am not sure about this story. I suspect that it was created later for publicity purposes. Here is the tunnel in question: 
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Post by UnseenI on Aug 7, 2019 7:06:32 GMT
Massive Alice in Wonderland exhibition next year
Bringing many Alice references together in one thread has highlighted the influence the stories still have on many aspects of modern life. A huge exhibition at the V & A Museum in London is being planned for next year: “... a mega Alice in Wonderland show is coming to South Kensington, and we're already willing to bet that this will be one of the most popular exhibitions of the year. The exhibition aims to cover one of the most inspirational and imaginative stories of all time, as it takes you on a magic trip down the rabbit hole. Alice in Wonderland will run 27 June 2020-10 January 2021 at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Tickets to go on sale in Spring 2020, and more details will become available closer the time.” londonist.com/london/museums-and-galleries/alice-in-wonderland-exhibition-v-and-a-2020They must have a lot of faith in the enduring popularity of the stories. I wonder how much the tickets will be and whether or not the exhibition will be a success.
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Post by UnseenI on Aug 10, 2019 6:54:22 GMT
Alice and the Pirelli calendar
Pirelli used a modern take on the Alice in Wonderland story for the 2018 calendar. The pictures, many of which can be found online, look sinister to me. Here are some examples:  
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Post by UnseenI on Aug 28, 2019 17:11:43 GMT
Lewis Carroll, Ripon, and the Spa Gardens
In addition to connections to Oxford, Sussex and Llandudno, Lewis Carroll has associations with the town of Ripon in North Yorkshire. His father was canon there, and Carroll spent some time as choirboy at Ripon Cathedral. He is said to have been inspired to create the characters by the cathedral's animal carvings. One carving depicts a griffin catching a rabbit who subsequently escapes down a hole. It is also said that the idea of Alice following White Rabbit down his hole came from the tunnel leading to the cathedral’s underground crypt. Spa Gardens is a beautiful park right in the heart of Ripon. In 2013, to celebrate the connection a series of tree sculptures depicting characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was created by Mick Burns for Spa Gardens. They were made from cypress trees using a chainsaw:  
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Post by UnseenI on Aug 29, 2019 17:00:36 GMT
Off with his head: vandalism in the Spa Gardens
This is not really funny, but “Off with his head” was the first thing I thought of when I saw what had happened to the caterpillar. In 2014, North Yorkshire police reported that vandals had damaged the White Rabbit and beheaded the caterpillar:  
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Post by UnseenI on Sept 1, 2019 7:40:00 GMT
Alice in New Zealand
The influence of the Alice books continues. Some small bronze sculptures were unveiled in the Hamilton Gardens in New Zealand in 2015:  
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Post by UnseenI on Sept 8, 2019 7:20:39 GMT
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and the number 42
Lewis Carroll, who was a mathematician, made repeated use of this number in his writings. Examples of Carroll's use of 42: • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has 42 illustrations. • Alice's attempts at multiplication (chapter two in Wonderland) work if one uses base 18 to write the first answer, and increases the base by threes to 21, 24, etc. (the answers working up to 4 × 12 = "19" in base 39), but "breaks" precisely when one attempts the answer to 4 × 13 in base 42, leading Alice to declare "oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!" • Rule Forty-two in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ("All persons more than a mile high to leave the court"). • Rule 42 of the Code in the preface to The Hunting of the Snark ("No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm"). • In "fit the first" of The Hunting of the Snark the Baker had "forty-two boxes, all carefully packed, With his name painted clearly on each." • The White Queen announces her age as "one hundred and one, five months and a day", which—if the best possible date is assumed for the action of Through the Looking-Glass—gives a total of 37,044 days. If the Red Queen, as part of the same chess set, is regarded as the same age, their combined age is 74,088 days, or 42 × 42 × 42. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)I wonder whether Douglas Adams got the idea from Lewis Carroll when he said in The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy that ‘42’ is the Ultimate Answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything. There are 42 small abstract leaf designs on this newsletter, and almost as many representations of the number 42: 
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Post by UnseenI on Sept 16, 2019 17:25:27 GMT
Meghan Markle’s iPhone case
As posted in the Sussex thread, Meghan put pictures of herself with her Alice in Wonderland iPhone case on Instagram in 2016. This is a better picture of the model as it shows Alice looking at herself: 
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Post by UnseenI on Sept 22, 2019 18:46:21 GMT
Alice cakes
There is a very large assortment of fancy cakes with an Alice in Wonderland theme available. Here are two examples:  
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Post by UnseenI on Nov 8, 2019 8:26:37 GMT
Alice im Wunderland
There is a mural featuring Alice characters in the city of Bielefeld in Germany. Here we have the full artwork and a closer view of two sections:   
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Post by UnseenI on Nov 21, 2019 19:49:04 GMT
Alice in Wonderland paper napkin
Beautiful, and possibly too good to use! 
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 12, 2019 8:02:52 GMT
A mash-up novel with Sherlock Holmes
Judging from the extracts available online, this book seems worth reading but is nothing special. Moriarty releases some white rabbits into the House of Commons in this one!  
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 20, 2019 1:05:03 GMT
Very interesting, indeed...
I saw at the cinema recently Eyes Wide Shut, which has the wife in the film being called Alice...
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 20, 2019 1:06:36 GMT
Why was she called the Queen of Hearts, I wonder? |
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 20, 2019 7:57:11 GMT
I don’t know whether this thread is going the way you hoped it would go Avacyn, but the colourful pictures demonstrate how many aspects of life AiW still influences - and not just in English-speaking countries either. Some of those cakes are works of art! Did you see the September 8th post about the number 42? Princess Diana was the Queen of people’s hearts! |
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 21, 2019 22:12:32 GMT
42... the meaning of life in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy...
It really makes me wonder if there was something going on there. Were they hoping to make her - in some way - into someone like The Queen of Hearts, I wonder?
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 29, 2019 8:00:14 GMT
Alice in the entertainment world
Alice continues to inspire performers and designers in the world of entertainment. These stilt-walkers are from an events company:  An unusual depiction of the Cheshire Cat on stage: 
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 29, 2019 20:59:37 GMT
Heartburn Entertainment? Curiouser and curiouser...
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Post by Avacyn on Dec 30, 2019 23:06:39 GMT
Here is something that caught my attention. Madeleina Kay, the #EUsupergirl is playing as the "Queen of European Hearts," with "Boy Alice." Brace yourself, though, the song is not very good... but it makes me wonder more and more about who she really is... and whether she has been sent through the looking glass at all...
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