tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post495264511123581133..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: But, said Alice, where does that quotation come from? - Clémentine BeauvaisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-65927479918218420032022-08-10T21:33:27.728+01:002022-08-10T21:33:27.728+01:00I just found it in an Italian novel published in 2...I just found it in an Italian novel published in 2014, Alessia Gazzola's "The Princess’ Bones". Since she called her protagonist Alice, there are often Carrol quotes in her books... including, unfortunately, this apocryphal one. This is very irritating also because she does extensive research for other topics in her novels...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-7660667436081354222017-06-28T21:58:08.053+01:002017-06-28T21:58:08.053+01:00There was some horrible sentimental stuff attribut...There was some horrible sentimental stuff attributed to Winnie the Pooh recently, wasn't there? Absolute rubbish - as is this Alice stuff. Nobody who had read and loved the books would believe for a moment that it came from them.Ann Turnbullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484265041343702129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-11038085759349395082017-06-28T16:54:25.542+01:002017-06-28T16:54:25.542+01:00I'm always wary of quotes I find on the Intern...I'm always wary of quotes I find on the Internet - I have to find attributions before I use them - because a lot of them are recycled too. A fascinating look at this quote for sure. thanks for sharing. Chitra Soundarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11459683357077199646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-17789437704031078052017-06-28T11:52:26.704+01:002017-06-28T11:52:26.704+01:00This kind of thing is irritating, and very difficu...This kind of thing <i>is</i> irritating, and very difficult to extirpate once it gets abroad, like knotweed. I suspect that Pooh gets these blandly uplifting <i>mal mots</i> foisted onto him even more than Alice.Catherine Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693526864905868829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-67712841836891496452017-06-28T11:07:31.438+01:002017-06-28T11:07:31.438+01:00Clementine, I'm quite impressed by your resear...Clementine, I'm quite impressed by your research!<br /><br />Andrew, I'm barely educated and unacademic and I find it twee and irritating.<br /><br />Because it's a false trader - claims to be by the mathematician and logician, Carrol, when it isn't. It has none of his style (in English anyway.)<br /><br />And then, how is it defining 'world' and 'sense'? Once you take a careful look at the meaning of those two words, it falls apart.<br /><br />The natural world has plenty of 'sense' and meaning. It's a harsh kind of sense that has little value for mankind and will likely destroy us fairly soon. We can invent as much new 'sense' for the natural world as we like- Adam and Eve and God, for instance - but it won't make any difference.<br /> <br />If you say 'world' means 'society' - well that already has a sense that we invented and we continually do reinvent it, quite often for the worse.<br /><br />So it's just an empty rattle of words which, quite insultingly, claims to be by Lewis Carroll.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-32275473636913785192017-06-28T10:16:51.887+01:002017-06-28T10:16:51.887+01:00Perhaps it's only the ultra academic, and inte...Perhaps it's only the ultra academic, and intellectually educated mind that it irritates, and finds twee. Andrew Prestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14063661979113168003noreply@blogger.com