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...eminent scholars of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America raise though-provoking questions that would enchant any professor composing an exam on the Carroll Oeuvre. On Alice: "In what sense is Alice funny?," "What poem does the Duchess' song parody?," "How have illustrators other than Tenniel approached Alice?." On Carroll: "How can he be considered a Pre-Raphaelite?," "Why did he adopt a pseudonym?" and, predictably, "What about all those pre-pubescent little girls?." Intriguing, as exam essays...
Fortunately, any one of the pictures in Lewis Carroll Observed is worth a thousand of the words. From a facsimile of Carroll's first known nonsense poem (a mock epic) to his pictures of little girls (he was a surprisingly talented photographer) to his unpublished sketches for Sylvie and Bruno, the illustrations in this book are on a higher level than the coffee-table. But the weight of the text may confine the book there...
...which do not entertain me). This is bad enough. But I frown when I must mingle with these unwelcome guests; words impressed into public roles are stained with brutality, lose their invisibilities, and are no longer parts of the actual brain. So I must divert attention from my innocent poem; but then I am hopelessly confused how to accomplish my other purpose...
...time was there the slightest duplicity. Indeed, it is the suggestion of duplicity in the tenor of the Crimson article that compels me to respond, at great length, with considerable inconvenience and personal agitation, to what should at most be a minor sub-editorial matter. Obviously my poem, which resides in a sphere surrounded by silence, has been, willy-nilly, invested with political meaning, and my connection to the poem has imposed a legalistic, heteronomous context on a series of my previously unrelated, pure, free acts...
Douglas A. McIntyre '77, Advocate editor-in-chief, said yesterday the Advocate will replace the poem with "some other copy or some artwork." "If we printed it, we would violate copyright laws," McIntyre said. Padan Aram is copyrighted, as is the Advocate...