Comments | kellyrfineman: Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

kellyrfineman

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Apr 05, 2010 09:47

Yesterday's poem, "The butterfly obtains" by Emily Dickinson, got me thinking about butterflies and caterpillars (whence butterflies come), and about the latest movie version of Alice in Wonderland, which I mentioned on my blog after I first saw it in 2D with M. (I have since seen it in 3D with hubby, and copied down quite a few quotes while there ( Read more... )

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tracyworld April 5 2010, 21:38:34 UTC

You may be a geek, Kelly. But you're our geek. :)

kellyrfineman April 6 2010, 00:24:14 UTC

That is very sweet of you to say!

reneesweet April 5 2010, 23:25:52 UTC

My absolute favorite line from the movie!! :) Although...*whispers* It's Crispin Glover who plays Stayne, not Christian Slater. ;) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014759/

Ack! kellyrfineman April 6 2010, 00:32:08 UTC

I fixed it immediately. I knew that, actually, but botched it TWICE today. Silly me!

My favorite lines are still "You're not the same as you were before. You were much more . . . muchier. You've lost your muchness."

And this:

Alice: This is impossible.

Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

Alice: Sometimes, I believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Hatter: That is an excellent practice. However, just at the moment, you might want to focus on the Jabberwocky.

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kellyrfineman April 6 2010, 04:33:06 UTC

Well, it's what I do. To be specific, I carry it by its hair. Heh.

Your Performance... mlyearofreading April 6 2010, 01:23:52 UTC

...coming soon to YouTube???? I'd love to see it!

And thanks for the tidbit about his name! Fascinating!

Re: Your Performance... kellyrfineman April 6 2010, 04:35:03 UTC

I thought the info about his name was pretty interesting, too.

About YouTube: No digital video cam. (Maybe that's a good thing.)

anonymous April 6 2010, 14:33:05 UTC

Elaine M.

WOW! A post about "Jabberwocky" that includes a Muppet video! Poetry celebrations don't get any better than this. I enjoyed reciting this Carroll poem to my elementary students. They loved it! I also read them "The Walrus and the Carpenter." I never memorized that poem though!

kellyrfineman April 6 2010, 21:53:46 UTC

Muppets plus Carroll equals WIN, in my opinion. ("Galumph, galumph, galumph")

I also love "The Walrus and the Carpenter," but only have parts of it memorized. "'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'to talk of many things./Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax/Of cabbages and kings/And why the sea is boiling hot, or whether pigs have wings."