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Together with its sequel \u003Ci\u003EThrough the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There,\u003C\/i\u003E it is now known by all of us as \u003Ci\u003EAlice in Wonderland, \u003C\/i\u003Eand by me as one of my favourite books of all time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the occasion, I thought I'd republish the love letter to \u003Ci\u003EAlice \u003C\/i\u003EI wrote for a Quirky Books series we ran on our website many years ago, which I called\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe mother of all quirky books\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003EBecause of everyone who's loved it or borrowed from it, from Virginia Woolf to the Jefferson Airplane; because Wonderland is where surrealistic starts; because the characters play croquet with flamingos for mallets and don't follow the rules; because the logic is faultless but illogical; because it celebrates absurdity; because of \"Contrariwise\" and \"Off with their heads!\"; because Alice wants to know, was she in the Red King's dream or was he in hers; and because it's funny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENearly everyone read, or had read to them, the \u003Ci\u003EAlice\u003C\/i\u003E books as a child. Some people were delighted, others frightened or bewildered. But whether you loved it or hated it, it's worth taking another look. \u003Ci\u003EAlice\u003C\/i\u003E is a fairy tale, perhaps the most original and imaginative fairy tale ever.  Some parts are grim and disturbing, some are comic and demented. The \"beasts\", whether chess pieces or mock turtles, all remind us of someone we know.  The heroine is undaunted, incurably curious, and, deservedly, she wins a crown at the end.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETry \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1188626\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Annotated Alice\u003C\/i\u003E,\u003C\/a\u003E an oversized, complete text version of both \u003Ci\u003EAlice's Adventures in Wonderland \u003C\/i\u003Eand \u003Ci\u003EThrough the looking glass\u003C\/i\u003E with the original John Tenniel illustrations (surely half the charm of the book) and an introduction and running commentary by Martin Gardner, who was known for his encyclopedic knowledge of \u003Ci\u003EAlice \u003C\/i\u003Eand who loved mathematical puzzles as much as Charles Dodgson -- for many years he wrote a column on them for \u003Ci\u003EScientific American.\u003C\/i\u003E  Gardner knew it was important not to take \u003Ci\u003EAlice\u003C\/i\u003E too seriously, but he rightly saw that no joke is funny if you don't see the point. He quotes the original versions of the many poems Carroll lampoons, reports on the discovery of a note in which Carroll signed himself \"the White Knight\", reprints French and German translations of Jabberwocky and, true to his mathematical origins, maps out the chess game for us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAlice laughed. \"There's no use trying, \" she said: \"One can't believe impossible things.\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"I daresay you haven't had much practice,\" said the Queen. \"When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGo ask Alice, indeed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E*** \u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd to finish, here are some Books in the City posts on \u003Ci\u003EAlice \u003C\/i\u003Eyou might not have seen:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2010\/03\/alice-in-wonderland.html\"\u003EAlice in Wonderland on screen\u003C\/a\u003E, where you can view the earliest film version of \u003Ci\u003EAlice, \u003C\/i\u003Efrom 1903.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2010\/07\/bwana-paka-mcheshi.html\"\u003EBwana Paka Mcheshi, the Swahili Cheshire Cat\u003C\/a\u003E, on the death of Martin Gardner, genial annotator of \u003Ci\u003EAlice.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2013\/06\/treasure-from-basement.html\"\u003EAdolf in Blunderland: a Treasure from the Basement\u003C\/a\u003E, on a 1939 parody of \u003Ci\u003EAlice in Wonderland \u003C\/i\u003EI found in the Central City Library basement stacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E***\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003Eillustration by John Tenniel via www.fromoldbooks.org\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6341813240768733620\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/happy-birthday-alice-in-wonderland.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/6341813240768733620"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/6341813240768733620"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/happy-birthday-alice-in-wonderland.html","title":"Happy 150th to Alice in Wonderland, the mother of all quirky books"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-3303360366573766534"},"published":{"$t":"2013-06-11T09:00:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-01-03T16:30:44.584+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Adolf in Blunderland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Alice in Wonderland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"parodies"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"satire"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Treasure from the Basement"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Adolf in Blunderland: a treasure from the basement"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/EN\/New\/PublishingImages\/adolf_blunderland_170x240.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg align=\"right\" alt=\"Adolf in Blunderland. \" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/EN\/New\/PublishingImages\/adolf_blunderland_170x240.jpg\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"5\" style=\"border: 0px solid; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"140\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAlice in Wonderland\u003C\/i\u003E is one of my favourite books and I love coming across it in any guise - from the Swahili version I encountered on the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/elisikatikanchiy00carrrich\"\u003EInternet archive library\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to the Mervyn Peake-illustrated edition which was the star of the University of Sheffield Library's exhibit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.shef.ac.uk\/library\/exhibition\/alice\"\u003EMervyn Peake’s Alice\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;a few years ago. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EYou can imagine, therefore, how intrigued I was to come across an old, cardboardy book called \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1547556\"\u003EAdolf in Blunderland\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Ein the Central City Library basement. The cover bears a caricature of Adolf Hitler in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit looking up at a giant caterpillar with Neville Chamberlain’s head, moustache, top hat and all, as he sits on a mushroom with a cap that resembles a map of the world. The Caterpillar is clearly about to offer Adolf a chance to take a bite out of it, just as the real Chamberlain did.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThe book was published in Great Britain in 1939 and donated to the library by a Mr Griffiths in 1984. The authors are James Dyrenforth and Max Kester, James Dyrenforth being a noted lyricist of the 1930s and 40s who wrote the sorts of songs that are recorded by musicians with nicknames and their own orchestras, such as \"Skitch Henderson and his orchestra\".\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThe parodies of the Alice poems in this book are, in fact, very clever:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\"You are old, Kaiser Wilhelm,\" young Adolf said,\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\"And your famous moustache now falls flat…\"\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003Eor\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E'Twas the voice of the Fuehrer ! I heard him declare,\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\"If you want a good massacre, bomb from the air…\"\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EHowever, the best moment for me in the whole book is the tea party, where the March Hare has become \"March Into\", and the Mad Hatter is the \"Flatterer\". And the dormouse? Read on:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EMarch Into: No room! No room!\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EAdolf: There's plenty of room.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EFlatterer: Only if we annex Hungary, as the great March Into suggests.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EDoormat (weakly): Germany is hungry.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780007338092\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780007338092\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" height=\"200\" width=\"129\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAt the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival this month, I was lucky to get a chance to interview Sir Max Hastings, author of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2617644\"\u003EAll Hell let loose\u003C\/a\u003E (a history of World War II that Hamish Keith thinks is the best ever written) along with many other fine books, including a funny memoir of his dysfunctional childhood I'm reading right now, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2474617\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDid you really shoot the television? A family fable\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.  I took \u003Ci\u003EAdolf in Blunderland\u003C\/i\u003E along to show him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI told him about how when I found it, I was delighted by its cleverness, but after I'd finished reading it, it didn't seem as much fun as I had thought. Hastings said, kindly, \"Yes, parodies usually aren't as successful out of their times\", but that wasn't what I meant. It wasn't that the style was anachronistic - it was the story itself, and knowing, unlike the authors, how it would end: the carnage and the millions dead.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 4px;\"\u003EIt occurred to me that writing a parody like this, for two Englishmen, was a bit like when I used to write poems about my sadistic high school science teacher, likening him to a turtle, or a camel, as the mood struck me. It's not the last laugh, it's what you have instead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.booktryst.com\/2010\/04\/200-rabbit-holes-await-at-canadian_05.html\"\u003ERead this post on Booktryst\u003C\/a\u003E about an outstanding collection - nearly 500 books - of \"Wonderlandia\" at the University of British Columbia Rare Books and Special Collections Department. Yes, \u003Ci\u003EAdolf in Blunderland\u003C\/i\u003E is there.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 4px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3303360366573766534\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/treasure-from-basement.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3303360366573766534"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3303360366573766534"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/treasure-from-basement.html","title":"Adolf in Blunderland: a treasure from the basement"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-95693868603184088"},"published":{"$t":"2010-08-01T03:30:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-07-05T01:18:25.552+12:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Alice in Wonderland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"annotations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Martin Gardner"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Bwana Paka Mcheshi, the Swahili Cheshire Cat"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JvSiUEiI2xY\/VZfC_cudbSI\/AAAAAAAABAQ\/2uQ481tp3dU\/s1600\/Cheshire%2BCat.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JvSiUEiI2xY\/VZfC_cudbSI\/AAAAAAAABAQ\/2uQ481tp3dU\/s400\/Cheshire%2BCat.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was saddened to learn of the death of Martin Gardner, whose annotated edition of \u003Ci\u003EAlice in Wonderland \u003C\/i\u003Ewas  one of the best reads of my childhood. Well, as sad as you are when  someone dies who is 95 years old and has had a good life and a painless  death. That kind of sad like when a great old battleship gets  decommissioned, the flag lowered for the last time, the sailors  saluting, the final watch secured. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn fact, besides being a lover of maths, science, philosophy and Lewis  Carroll, Martin Gardner was one of the great old battleships of the  skeptical movement, consecrated to debunking pseudoscience and  superstition. His columns for \u003Ci\u003EThe Skeptical Inquirer (\u003C\/i\u003Ewhich you can read \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandcitylibraries.com\/?itemid=%7Clibrary\/marc\/acl-iii%7Cb2464251\"\u003Eonline\u003C\/a\u003E in our Digital Library) were one of the pillars of the magazine, and he  finished his last one just ten days before he died. It will appear in  the September\/October issue, which should also be the first issue in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandcitylibraries.com\/?itemid=%7Clibrary\/marc\/acl-iii%7Cb1883704\"\u003Eprint version\u003C\/a\u003E to arrive at Central Library. We decided to start up a subscription in  May, which turns out to have been the month Martin Gardner died. No  evidence for paranormal suggestion being involved, I hasten to add.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EProud to be a liberrian\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tributes to Martin Gardner which his friends posted on their blogs after his death, like Richard Dawkins's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/richarddawkins.net\/articles\/472686-martin-gardner-rest-in-peace-good-old-man\"\u003E\"Rest in peace good old man\"\u003C\/a\u003E, were followed by comment after comment about how important his books had been in people’s lives. The word \u003Ci\u003Elibrary\u003C\/i\u003Ejumped out at me from a few of them, in contexts like \"I first encountered one of his books \u003Ci\u003Eat my library \u003C\/i\u003Eand \u003Ci\u003Eit blew my mind\u003C\/i\u003E\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI first encountered Martin Gardner as a child when I was given his book \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandcitylibraries.com\/?itemid=%7Clibrary\/marc\/acl-iii%7Cb1251530\"\u003EThe Annotated Alice\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003Efor my birthday. Just as well I didn’t get it from the library because I would never have wanted to return it. It's an oversize book with big  wide margins where the notes are written (so superior to footnotes!). My sister and I were thrilled to discover an annotation which credited the father of her friend Andrea Burkenroad for explaining a particular  Carrollian pun. “Thanks to Martin Burkenroad, of Panama” it read. Dr.  Burkenroad (a biologist who had been studying Panamanian shrimp,  possibly observing their quadrilles) was a mysterious and exciting  figure to us already, as Andrea had told us he had once drunk rattlesnake  poison to illustrate a scientific point. You can see why he would have  been a friend of Martin Gardner's.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Annotated Alice\u003C\/i\u003E gives \"The Jabberwocky\" in French (“Le  glaive vorpal fait pat-a-pan!”) and German (“O Freuden-Tag! O  Halloo-Schlag!”), and now, to honour the memory of Martin Gardner, I’m  going to let you see \u003Ci\u003EAlice in\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Ci\u003EWonderland \u003C\/i\u003Ein Swahili. \u003Ci\u003EElisi katika nchi ya ajabu\u003C\/i\u003E was published in 1940 by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and is now part of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/burstein\"\u003EBurstein collection\u003C\/a\u003E of \u003Ci\u003EAlice in Wonderland\u003C\/i\u003E books on the Internet Archive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's illustrated with the original Tenniel drawings with marvellously  random transpositions of some characters to Africa. Alice is a little  African girl in a sarong instead of a pinafore; the White Rabbit is  still a white rabbit (in a caftan, although later he gets his waistcoat  back); the Caterpillar is still a caterpillar; but have a look at Baba  Wilyam (pg. 46)! And in one of my favourite chapters, Pig and Pepper,  the Ugly Duchess is the same but her cook has turned into an African  houseboy, still holding the pilipili shaker (that's pepper). The  Cheshire Cat, unchanged except for his fantastic new name, Bwana Paka  Mcheshi, lies grinning at his feet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was intrigued by the treatment of the Tea Party. The Mad Hatter  still sells hats, although they are fezzes, but the March Hare has  become a tortoise, and the Dormouse seems to be -- quick check of an online Swahili dictionary -- a lemur? Okay, I got that -- a lemur being  nocturnal, it would be sleepy during the day. But what does a tortoise  have to do with a March hare?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFunny you should ask. You know about \"Mad as a March Hare\", right?  How hares leap about with great abandon in March when their mating  season starts? Well, Edward St Lo de Malet, the author of this  translation, whom I think I've identified as the 8th Baronet Malet,  Colonel in the Irish Hussars who had been posted before the war to  Palestine, must have set those missionaries to work observing the mating behaviour of all the local animal types to come up with a species which could convey this special elan. And they found him one!\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003EFrom the deadpan pages on the African tortoise on the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluzoo.org\/spurred_tortoise.htm\"\u003EHonolulu Zoo website\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"BEHAVIOR:\u003Cbr \/\u003EAble to run and burrow quite well. Get excited just before it rains, running around (…)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBREEDING: \u003Cbr \/\u003ECopulate during the rainy season (February-March) for about one week.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApparently they are also very noisy. The zoo doesn't mention it but lots  of websites about travel in Africa warn about people being kept awake  by amorous tortoises. This caused some confusion on one site when  someone thought \"tortoises\" was poor English for \"tourists\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere is the book (if it hasn't embedded right for your computer, click \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/elisikatikanchiy00carrrich\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E). Enjoy!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"430px\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/elisikatikanchiy00carrrich?ui=embed#mode\/2up\" width=\"480px\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAlice in Wonderland\u003C\/i\u003E is one of the most translated books ever  (the Bible is the most). Did you know that Vladimir Nabokov translated  it into Russian in the 1920s when he was living in the  Russian\u0026nbsp;émigré community in Berlin, trying to make a living from writing  rather than tennis lessons? They say he did a good job, especially  considering he did it for the money, and probably in a hurry. Rather  than a cheese cat, he made the Cheshire cat a Butter cat, using the name  of a Russian holiday, Butter Day, where everyone gets to eat pancakes,  with butter I presume. There's a Russian proverb which says \"A cat can't  have Butter Day every day\"-- meaning, you can't have fun every day,  eventually you have to go to work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnless of course you're a tortoise."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/95693868603184088\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/bwana-paka-mcheshi.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/95693868603184088"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/95693868603184088"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/bwana-paka-mcheshi.html","title":"Bwana Paka Mcheshi, the Swahili Cheshire Cat"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tosca"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DKeaBNqmKUo\/VBStvJvL4cI\/AAAAAAAAR4M\/ZsfOjoSDymI\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JvSiUEiI2xY\/VZfC_cudbSI\/AAAAAAAABAQ\/2uQ481tp3dU\/s72-c\/Cheshire%2BCat.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-3397248489936757664"},"published":{"$t":"2010-03-15T04:30:00.000+13:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-07-04T23:30:40.359+12:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Alice in Wonderland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jan Svankmajer"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Alice in Wonderland on screen"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026nbsp;Everyone knows that things being the way they are supposed  to be is the antithesis of \u003Ci\u003EAlice in Wonderland\u003C\/i\u003E. So maybe I shouldn’t confess, but I will anyway, how amiss I felt when I  saw the trailer for Tim Burton’s \u003Ci\u003EAlice in Wonderland\u003C\/i\u003E and Alice has breasts. It just wasn't right! \u003Ci\u003E\"Breasts!\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI hope it’s clear that I am not doing anything so boring as to insist on  total fidelity to the book. I love the Walt Disney version of \u003Ci\u003EAlice in  Wonderland\u003C\/i\u003E. I think the gardeners singing “We’re painting the roses  red” are truly catchy and I am seduced by the caterpillar’s smoke rings  turning into letters from the words he speaks, as I’m sure Lewis Carroll  would have been. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd how can I not adore the movie which gave rise to one of the greatest  theme park rides ever, and certainly the most cult: Disneyland's Mad  Tea Party spinning tea cups, the scene, I am not ashamed to say, of some  of the strongest emotions I've ever experienced.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy current favourite \u003Ci\u003EAlice \u003C\/i\u003Emovie is the one by the Czech genius  surrealist animator and puppeteer (not sure where to put the commas  there) Jan Svankmajer. The little girl who plays Alice is the only  screen Alice I’ve ever seen who captures that fearless-child look you see in the famous photographs of Alice Liddell, saved from being too knowing for her years only,  and just barely, by the piercing sweetness of the gaze.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere's the trailer for \"Neco z Alenky\", as the movie is titled, which my profound knowledge of Czech, aka my library-withdrawn Czech dictionary, says means “Alice from nowhere”, or, alternatively, “Alice from anywhere”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KVOmGJzj5LM\" width=\"420\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe British Film Institute National Archive recently restored the  earliest film version of \u003Ci\u003EAlice in Wonderland\u003C\/i\u003E and posted it on youtube.  It was made in 1903, just 37 years after the book was published. Moving  pictures had been around for less than a decade. I kept thinking, as  Alice twirls around looking for the key, how there was something that  reminded me of Degas's paintings of backstage ballerinas. And then I  realized that this film and Degas are contemporaries! I find it  amazing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe director pressed his family's pet into service as the Cheshire  Cat. I love how fat and disdainful he is as he floats photomontaged  among the tree branches, more often than not looking pointedly in the  wrong direction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zeIXfdogJbA\" width=\"420\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt Auckland Libraries you can get:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2629551\"\u003EDisney's \u003Ci\u003EAlice\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;on DVD\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2808992\"\u003ETim Burton's \u003Ci\u003EAlice \u003C\/i\u003Eon DVD\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2506274\"\u003EAlice in Wonderland\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;in an\u0026nbsp;audiobook of children's classics read by Alan Bennett\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2663633\"\u003EAlice in Wonderland\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, audiobook read by Miriam Margolyes\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2411231\"\u003EThe Annotated Alice\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E: the complete text of \u003Ci\u003EAlice's Adventures in Wonderland \u003C\/i\u003Eand \u003Ci\u003EThrough the looking glass\u003C\/i\u003E with notes and diagram of the chess game by mathematician Martin Gardner\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand we hope to soon be able to put our hands on a DVD of Svankmajer's \u003Ci\u003EAlenky \u003C\/i\u003Eas well!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3397248489936757664\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/alice-in-wonderland.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3397248489936757664"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3397248489936757664"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/alice-in-wonderland.html","title":"Alice in Wonderland on screen"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tosca"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DKeaBNqmKUo\/VBStvJvL4cI\/AAAAAAAAR4M\/ZsfOjoSDymI\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/KVOmGJzj5LM\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});