Because it's still July 4th somewhere in the world...

[stephen_dedman]

I forgot to celebrate appropriately yesterday, but it was the 145th Anniversary of the Golden Afternoon when the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson told the Liddell sisters the story that would become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Unfortunately, my copy of Boojum! seems to have softly and suddenly vanished away when we moved house, or I'd be

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[murasaki_1966]

I was reading The Hunting of the Snark in his honour last night. It's my favourite Carroll. And I can recite most of The Lobster Quadrille.
Have you read Hiawatha's Photographing?
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hiawatha-s-photographing/

From his shoulder Hiawatha
Took the camera of rosewood,
Made of sliding, folding rosewood;
Neatly put it all together.
In its case it lay compactly,
Folded into nearly nothing;

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[stephen_dedman]

Yes, I've read it many times - not quite enough to recite it, but nearly.