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Post by guybarry on Feb 4, 2011 11:21:22 GMT -5
Just joined up but the site looks pretty dead. Is anyone else around?
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Post by mikeindex on Feb 6, 2011 5:24:46 GMT -5
Welcome to the Forum, Guy. Yes, I'm afraid it has been a bit dead lately - but please do post any queries or comments you have; I for one will try to contribute constructively, and hopefully others will join in.
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Post by guybarry on Feb 6, 2011 6:01:09 GMT -5
Nice to know that someone else is around at any rate! I didn't mean to post to "Collectors' Corner", by the way - I was just looking for a general board. Though it makes precious little difference when things are this quiet I didn't have anything specific to say but was just looking for general Carroll-related discussion. I'm what you might call a "lapsed Carrollian"; I was brought up on the stuff, had Martin Gardner's "The Annotated Alice" from an early age, plus copies of odd things like the Dover edition of "Pillow-Problems and a Tangled Tale"; "Diversions and Digressions of Lewis Carroll", the Dover re-issue of Stuart Dodgson Collingwood's "The Lewis Carroll Picture Book" (which I found endlessly fascinating); John Fisher's book on "The Magic of Lewis Carroll"; and of course Gardner's "The Annotated Snark", which I remember first finding with delight in my school library when I was twelve! After that I was heavily influenced by Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid", which owes a great deal to Carroll - its dialogues were based on the characters from Carroll's "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". I also wrote a few things based on Carroll's work, notably "The Belgian and the Irishman", which was a parody of "The Walrus and the Carpenter" about two of my schoolmates who had formed a relationship; and, later, a setting of Robert Scott's "Der Jammerwoch" (the German translation of "Jabberwocky") in the style of the lieder of Schubert and others. I largely lost interest when I got older, but have recently picked up an interest again and am keen to converse with like-minded people. I did manage to read through the whole of both volumes of "Sylvie and Bruno", although I have to say that I found most of the "real-world" story pretty heavy going and not really worthy of Carroll at his best. Well, that's about all I can say at the moment. Hope someone finds time to respond!
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