Many of you know my proclivity for all things Alice (sounds salacious doesn’t it). You’ll consequently understand why early this morning I was in a library reading a review on The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, in lieu of taking coffee in a outdoor bistro on the final day of the cherry blossom’s perfection.
In case anyone shares my small obsession, I’m sharing the find with you. I believe I’ll be reading about Alice’s author in April.
Easter break is popular in Jesuit schools, as you might figure, so as of this moment I have a mini break. I’m also not working for the next few days, except at my desk at home. The next five days will be beautiful here, and I am looking forward to running, sleeping and possibly even getting to write in this blog. For now I have to tackle the 45 minute trek home (where the less prolific cherry blossoms are just starting to bloom), to the tractor/garden supply store and it’s finest finch food.
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April Come She Will audio cross posted at Compulsions.
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You’re a Hoya?
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More a Violet still, as John said below, not shrinking though, but yes a Hoya.
NYU’s mascot is the violet? I bet the rugby team would prefer lavendar.
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The teams are Violets, the MASCOT…is the manly and ferocious Bobcat.
The review looks good and if I had any interest in Alice or her creator I’d read it. The only Alice I am interested in at this time is you.
He was a strange one, that Carroll.
Easter break is popular in my family, as you can guess, but I am working and busy with no time for anything.
You’re still really a “Violet” at heart aren’t you?
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You hit the violet thing on the head. GT is a great school for what I’m doing but the culture of nyu is so much better. D.C. is full of more wanna be’s than any other city and sometimes the culture of politics and policy is boring. However I have the ability to go to seminars and lectures given by former heads of state, and some absolute genius humanitarian policy makers, and so on. I have great profs for my chosen field..so the violet wilts for now.
I recall reading a book about Carroll once before though this one looks more interesting.
“Easter break is popular in Jesuit schools, as you might figure”
an understatement.
understated truth, no stereotype
Cooper the beauty of your words continues to amaze me, and after all this time I should be used to your depth of subject and style
I think Lewis Carroll is fascinating
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He is, which is nice because sometimes people who do spectacular things in art, literature, or film..anything really, turn out to be really banal characters.
I loved James Ellroy. Thought him a brilliant writer and was interested in his life–his mother being the victim in the Black Dahlia and he survived sniffing glue with brilliance intact
Then I saw him host a book event on TV. He was an insufferable snob and bore. I could never read anything by him again. His superiority was just too much. He was banal in the worst and least used sense of the word
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Banal characters or asshole misogynists? …Norman Mailer. I was just reading a review of his 6th wife’s book. ;)
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Everyone has their vice or weakness. Alice and all things about her is yours.Could be worse.
Carroll was a bit odd for the day, wasn’t he?
I love the Jesuits, they are fierce about their sports, and love their basketball – disappointed yet again – Georgetown out Xavier out BC not making it.
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Me, I just want the underdog to win. Even if he doesn’t deserve it and there-in lies my problem. ;)
Those who root for the underdogs make for good Jesuits.
Yes, you may quote me on that.
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If only the Hoya’s were as fierce my brackets might have held.
Who am I kidding..
The original illustrations of Alice and Wonderland add to the weirdness of a very good piece of work. The illustrator had to have been a tad off as well. The book looks like it a good read. For you.
Understatement I like, it just takes me a minute to see the broader meaning.
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Yea, the illustrations were weirdly awesome but not that strange for the times.
At first I didn’t get who Lewis Carroll was, and why you typed:”I believe I’ll be reading about Alice’s author in April” which made me think you’ve either become a multiple-personality speaking in the third person, or there was a guest poster, writing your blog.
Takes some time to warm up the brain at times.
The book bio seems interesting. I was never big into Alice and Wonderland, (I didn’t much care for the recent movie) but I always liked the abstract symbolic dream like expression of it all.
I’ve never understood the need to discredit an author’s creation on the basis of the author’s speculative living. I doubt anything I’ll ever create will live past me, but if (big if), it did I would want the creation to live on it’s own.
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You never know. They say death changes everything. Bennett.
Money changes everything – Cyndi Lauper
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Happy Easter Cooper! One of my things to do is read Alice in Wonderland. At least I finally got the book.
We’re going to a little league baseball tournament over the weekend (in the Netherlands) – my son will be playing on the Hamburg All Stars.
Congratulations to the boy and have fun.
I’m glad you know have Alice.
Happy April Fool’s Day Cooper, or Alice as I called you for a long time.
By reading the book I know Carroll was “not your average bear”.
You enjoy the holiday, I’ll be on the golf course – I hope.
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Enjoy jacob.
God only knows how many particular topics I have a weakness for so I completely understand your fondness for all things Alice. If it’s one thing I know it’s being impulsive.
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Quite a few topics for sure, mojo.
Why if I admit to a proclivity for all things Alice you might just label me a cyber-stalker.
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You got that right. LOL
You win the comment of the week.
I keep meaning to start that list.
I assigned the original as an extra reading. I’ve never had much interest in Lewis Carroll until your interest was exposed.
We had a week long discussion on it. The books works well in fifth grade for the accelerated, inquisitive, and precocious.
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“interest exposed” lol
Good move kait.
If you have an Agway or Tractor Supply store nearby, either have a much better selection of bird seed than the big box stores.
Georgetown isn’t Jesuit, is it? Thought it was Franciscan or Dominican… shoulda paid more attention when I was down there a couple of weeks ago. I pictured you as more a St. Mary’s type going for their Masters in Lit. But then again… the impression I have of you is Poe and Carroll.
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Yea I go to a tractor supply store, I love it there, it;s fun. They had chicks too, and rabbits, but I couldn’t get any of those. ;)
GT is the first Jesuit uni in this country. Did you never read my about page sk. lol
Prolly not for a few years… plus, yanno, I’m a dope. Cain’t rid and only gots a cuple o’teefs.
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:)
I do appreciate the long weekends when it comes to holidays, even religious ones. My only plans for the weekend is watching the Final Four and drinking a couple beers. If you can, grab a pic of the cherry blossoms. Haven’t seen them in forever.
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I might watch the final four with friends not sure.
I go to school here, so it rarely occurs to me to photograph them, mainly because i am usually coming or going from school when seeing them. They are astonishing though.
I may possibly have read all of Alice in Wonderland by now, but never all at once or in its proper order. I should get on that.
Right now I’m still trudging through Jeff Sharlet’s The Family, and having to stop every now and again to stare blankly into the abyss. They were less scary when the only thing I knew about them was that they were good at advising Congressmen in how to hide their affairs.
I don’t even know what that abyss is doing here…
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Lewis Carroll sent the abyss to suck you in Patrick….;)
After reading your first paragraph, I almost took my last post down. Your writing shames me.
Also, as a random aside, I just read the “Comment Policy” for the first time. So what I should have said is, good post :)
Enjoy your break, Miss Cooper. The sleeping, the running, the finch feeding, all of it.
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The comment policy has been there for only a short time relative to the age of the blog but …good comment.
my finches only eat thistle, they won’t eat the songbird mix for finches fro some reason. My mother used to use the songbird nix it’s less expensive.
No break here, the ill are still ill and medical students are ….stuck.
Happy happy coop.
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They love the thistle and devour it but the other songbirds can eat the mix. I have both but don’t pay that much attention to what is out at any given time.
I was mussing this morning, wondering how to write about my experiences with low self esteem, and I came to the conclusion that it was like living down the rabbit hole..then I found your blog almost as soon as I logged on…strange.
Faye