Word: wonderland
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...literary monument to confusion, but they offer the kind of confusion our world needs. They are tonic for a baffled member of McNamara's Band toting a carbine upon the tundra. If our nonsensical world must remain nonsensical, may it return to the nonsense of a Wonderland...
...Prism & Wonderland. One of five curates at St. Stephen's, Priest-Publisher Beaumont-thanks to an "understanding" vicar-has no duties except on Sunday, a privilege shared by some Anglican "worker priests" in British industrial cities who labor weekdays in factories, preach and worship on Sunday in mission chapels. Beaumont is currently in the midst of tidying up his communications interests. For "a nominal sum," he recently sold the weekly magazine Time & Tide, which he saved from extinction in 1960 and turned into one of England's liveliest but most unprofitable journals of opinion (he lost...
...days have ever proved as richly, fortuitously frabjous as the beamish afternoon of July 4, 1862. It was a century ago this week, between lunch and brillig, that the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and a friend rowed three small sisters up the River Isis and came upon Wonderland...
...Next day, on a train trip to London, Lewis Carroll drew up chapter headings for the book he originally called Alice's Adventures Underground. Illustrated by the great Sir John Tenniel, and expanded and rewritten, the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reached Alice exactly three years later. It was an immediate hit. and with its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, earned Carroll an affluence he did not want and the fame he detested. An aloof, high-strung eccentric, he insisted for the rest of his life that there was no connection between Lewis Carroll...
...welcome a friendship between her daughter and a man 20 years older. Through the Looking Glass fades on "the shadow of a sigh" as Alice bounds happily into her future and the old White Knight bumbles on his way. Lewis Carroll's consolation was to create a Wonderland that lingers forever in "the golden gleam" of that summer's day a century...