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Owl and Pussy-Cat in Speed Bump
Yesterday’s Speed Bump cartoon, by Dave Coverly, had Edward Lear’s Owl and Pussy-Cat as protagonists:
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More Edward Lear from YouTube
Violets Adventure, based on Edward Lear’s “The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World“, here is what the author writes: I started off by illustrating the characters then scanned them into a computer and put them … Continue reading
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Uncle Arly Told by Dudley Moore
A suitably obscure rendition of an Edward Lear poem (“Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly“) by Dudley Moore from the needlessly destroyed archives of “Not Only… But Also“.
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The Pobble Who Has No Toes: a Marionette Show
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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