Of cabbages and kings...
When Lewis Carroll wrote the poem The Walrus and The Carpenter in his book Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There he produced a memorable poem that once read, sticks in the mind for life - if only for the imagery of oysters walking from their beds to lunch with the Walrus and the Carpenter.
What fires such imagination and creativity? How did Lewis Carroll combine such disparate items as cabbages, kings, sealing wax, shoes, ships, flying pigs, walking oysters and talking animals into this remarkable poem? Whilst it may be considered nonsense verse, it flows and rhymes and tells an entrancing, if tragic, story. Wikipedia has some more information for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walrus_and_the_Carpenter.
And why is this important to my blog? Good point! It's my very first blog entry ever, and when presented with the blank BlogSpot page the phrase "Of cabbages and kings" just popped into my head! Not willing to let it slide, I thought I'd pen these few words and lose my blogging virginity. Let Freud contemplate the significance of that :-)
Cheers,
Raymond.
What fires such imagination and creativity? How did Lewis Carroll combine such disparate items as cabbages, kings, sealing wax, shoes, ships, flying pigs, walking oysters and talking animals into this remarkable poem? Whilst it may be considered nonsense verse, it flows and rhymes and tells an entrancing, if tragic, story. Wikipedia has some more information for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walrus_and_the_Carpenter.
And why is this important to my blog? Good point! It's my very first blog entry ever, and when presented with the blank BlogSpot page the phrase "Of cabbages and kings" just popped into my head! Not willing to let it slide, I thought I'd pen these few words and lose my blogging virginity. Let Freud contemplate the significance of that :-)
Cheers,
Raymond.
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