Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

The Pobble Who Has No Toes: a Marionette Show

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

This is clearly an amateurish home production of Edward Lear’s “The Pobble Who Has No Toes;” the image is quite dark and at times this makes it difficult to understand what’s going on.

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The Akond of Swat Video by Ken Nordine

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

The music for this video was first published in Ken Nordine‘s CD A Transparent Mask (Asphodel ASP 2004, 2001): “The Akond of Swat” is one of Edward Lear’s Indian poems. More Nordine on YouTube.

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Two Old Bachelors: the Cartoon

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

From YouTube, a short animated film by Doug Wilson, illustrating Edward Lear’s poem “The Two Old Bachelors.” This traditional animation movie was produced at the University Of Central Lancashire for his 3rd year degree and it was shown at the … Continue reading →

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Another Peter Newell Patent

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

In 1909 Peter Newell filed an application for a patent on books with leaves “having designs thereon, and having corresponding portions of said designs cut away to provide sight openings.” The drawings used to illustrate it are sketches of the … Continue reading →

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Alice Illustrators at the Hornseys

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

A major contemporary art exhibition inspired by Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’ books entitled ‘Alice’s Wonderland’ is opening at “the gallery — Hornseys” on 14 April. Also on display “fine printers proofs from the original Sir John Tenniel wood blocks, as well … Continue reading →

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Lewis Carroll and His Telescoping Determinants

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

If you are interested in C.L. Dodgson’s mathematical works, you can read this article on the website of the Mathematical Association of America, which lists and links to several other essays on Carroll’s method for evaluating determinants.

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Alice in Russia

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

The Moscow Times has an interesting story of the coming of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland to Russia: it seems the book had a very negative reception from the time of the first 1879 translation until 1967, when Soviet bureaucrats … Continue reading →

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The 1903 Alice Movie

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

The whole of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (well, almost) in just 9 spectacular minutes, the original probably ran a bit longer as some scenes seem to be incomplete. On YouTube, in very low quality, but then I had never … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell's Patents

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell’s innovations in book technology, while mostly not very radical, induced him to patent the designs he created, below is the first page of his patent for the Slant Book: In the specification he writes: … I, Peter S. … Continue reading →

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Fictional Edward Lear

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Interest in Edward Lear must be on the rise, at least among writers: he has been making appearances in a number of novels, short stories and even as the central character in Clive Barker’s play Subtle Bodies (in Forms of … Continue reading →

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