THE MAKING OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND

The
Background & History of
Alice In Wonderland

in reference to:

"The Background & History of Alice In Wonderland"
- BEDTIME-STORY CLASSICS-Alice In Wonderland BACKGROUND (view on Google Sidewiki)

Yeats

W. B. Yeats and King Oedipus
Yeats's quest for an idiom to convey the essence of Greek tragedy has influenced our greatest poets and dramatists.

In the minds of Irish-nationalist men of letters, around the end of the nineteenth century and the earlier years of the twentieth, there existed a special affinity between Ireland and Ancient Greece. There might even be a shared mission. According to Patrick Pearse, who headed the Easter Rising in 1916, “what the Greek was to the ancient world the Gael will be to the modern”. Above all, though, the sense of affinity rested on the perceived kinship between traditions of heroic poetry and myth. For the historian Standish O’Grady, the Irish heroic age surpassed even the Homeric.

in reference to: W. B. Yeats and King Oedipus - Michael Silk - TLS (view on Google Sidewiki)

Enoch Soames (from the book Seven Men) Max Beerbohm

When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for SOAMES, ENOCH.

in reference to: Max Beerbohm's short story: Enoch Soames (Book: Seven Men) (view on Google Sidewiki)

Alice's adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved

What would Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland be without the Cheshire Cat, the trial, the Duchess's baby or the Mad Hatter's tea party? Look at the original story that the author told Alice Liddell and her two sisters one day during a boat trip near Oxford, though, and you'll find that these famous characters and scenes are missing from the text.

in reference to:

"Alice's adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved"
- Alice's adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved - physics-math - 16 December 2009 - New Scientist (view on Google Sidewiki)

Golfito

Blue Bird
Temple
Nido
Contenido
Reino Unido
Gen 12:3
"And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Gal 3:8
"And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed."
Prov. 27:8
"As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place."

Static reflection of the illuminated Beijing National Stadium or Bird's Nest

Beijing

Louvre
Night time at the Louvre

Chess: "Blue Bird" "Reino Unido" "Nido" "Templo" "Golfito" "Blue
Ridge Mountain"
"Young Henry turned soon from the road to climb up a broad trail which soared to Crag-top and then over the wild mountains. Its windings could be seen from below until it disappeared into the great cleft. And on the topmost point of the trail dwelt Merlin; Merlin whom the farm boys might have jeered at and stoned on his infrequent journeys down the path had they believed him harmless. But Merlin was one who collected about himself a swarm of little legends. It was established that the Tylwyth Teg obeyed him and carried his messages through the air on soundless wings. Children whispered of his acquaintance with certain mottled weasels which might carry on his vengeance had he need of such. Then, too, he kept a red-eared dog. These were terrific things, and Merlin one not to be trifled with by children who did not know all the signs for protecting themselves.
Once Merlin had been a fine poet, the old people said, and might have been a greater.They would softly sing The Sorrow of Plaith or the Spear Song, to prove it. Several times he had taken the chief prize of the Eisteddfod, and would have been chosen First Bard if an aspirant of the House of Rhys had not entered against him. Then, without known cause, and Merlin a young man, too, he had shut up his song in the stone house on Crag-top and kept it a strict prisoner there while he grew old and old--- and those who had sung his songs forgot them, or died."
The Crag-top house was round like a low gray tower with windows letting sight on the valley and on the mountains. Some said it was built by a beleaguered giant, centuries ago, to keep his virgins hidden while they were in that state; and others, that king Harold had fled there after Hstings to live out his life ever watching and peering, with his one eye,, down the valley and over the mountains for the coming of Normans.
Merlin was old now; his hair and long, straight beard were white and soft as spring clouds.There was much about him of an ancient Druid priest with clear, far-seeing eyes which watched the stars.
The pathway narrowed on young Henry as he climbed. Its inward side was a stone wall cutting into the heavens knife-like, and the misshapen, vague images along the way made it seem the rock temple of some old, crude god whose worshippers were apes.
There had been grass at first, and bushes, and a few brave, twisted trees; but upward all living things died of the rock loneliness. Far below, the farmhouses huddled like feeding bugs and the valley shrank and drew into itself.
Now a mountain closed in on the other side of the trail, leaving only a broad chasm to the sky. A fierce steady wind poured out of the blue heavens and shrilled toward the valley.Upward, the strewn rocks were larger and more black and dreadful--crouched guardian things of the path.
Henry climbed tirelessly on. What could old Merlin have to tell him, or, perhaps, to give him? A lotion to make his skin tough and proof against arrows? Some charm? Words to protect him from the Devil's many little servants? But Merlin was to talk and he to listen; and what Merlin said might cure young Henry of his yearnings, might keep him here in Cambria* for always. That could not be, for there were outland forces, nameless foreign ghosts, calling to him and beckoning from across the mysterious sea.
There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest rising star.
The path broke on top of solid stone, semi-spherical like the crown of a hat; and on the peak of its rise was the low, round house of Merlin, all fitted of irregular rough rocks, and a conical roof on it like a candle-snuffer.
The old man met him at the door before he could knock.
"I'm young Henry Morgan, sir, and I'm going outward from here to the Indies."
"Indeed, and are you? Will you come in and talk to me about it? The voice was clear and low and a lovely as a young wind crooning in a Spring-time orchard. There was the music of singing in it, the quiet singing of a man working with tools; and underneath, half-heard or completely imagined, there rang the seeming of harp strings lightly touched and left to thrill.
The single room was thick carpeted in black, and on the walls were hung harp and spear-head, harp and spear-head, all the way around; small Welsh harps and the great bronze leaf spears of Britons, and these against the unfinished stone. Below these were all-seeing windows wherefrom you might look out on three valleys and a mighty family of mountains; and lower still, a single bench circled around the room against the wall. There was a table in the center loaded with tattered books, and beside it a copper brazier, set on a Greek tripod of black iron."

JOHN STEINBECK: Cup of Gold Ch.3

* The Cambrian Period marked a profound change in life on Earth. Before the Cambrian, life was on the whole small and simple. Complex organisms became gradually more common in the millions of years immediately preceding the Cambrian, but it wasn't until this period that mineralised — hence readily fossilised — organisms became common.^[8] This diversification of lifeforms was relatively rapid, and is termed the Cambrian explosion. This explosion produced the first representatives of most modern phyla, but on the whole, most Cambrian animals look alien to today's eyes, falling in the evolutionary stems of modern groups.While life prospered in the oceans, the land was barren — with nothing more than a microbial 'crud' gracing the soils. Apart from tentative evidence suggesting that some animals floundered around on land, most of the continents resembled deserts spanning from horizon to horizon. Shallow seas flanked the margins of several continents, which had resulted from the relatively recent breakup of the preceding supercontinent Pannotia. The seas were relatively warm, and polar ice was absent.

Teodorico Quirós

Blue Cheese
Herradura
Horseshoe
Prov. 24:6
"For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety."

The Watchman
The Watchman

El portón rojo, Teodorico Quirós

Chess: "Blue Cheese" "Herradura" "Teodorico Quirós" "Horsehoe"

Sword

Seven Sisters
Joyeuse
1Cor. 3:11-13
"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is."

seven sisters reflected
Seven Sisters, East Sussex

Chess: "Seven Sisters" "Joyeuse"

Joyeuse

Joyeuse was the name of Charlemagne's personal sword. The name translates as "joyful". Some legends claim that it was forged to contain the Lance of Longinus within its pommel; others state it was supposedly smithed from the same materials as Roland's Durendal and Ogier's Curtana.^[1]

The 11th century Song of Roland describes the sword:

[Charlemagne] was wearing his fine white coat of mail and his helmet with gold-studded stones; by his side hung Joyeuse, and never was there a sword to match it; its color changed thirty times a day.

Some seven hundred years later, Bulfinch's Mythology would describe Charlemagne using Joyeuse to behead the Saracen commander Corsuble, as well as knighting his comrade Ogier the Dane.

It is alleged to have been interred with Charlemagne's body, or contrarily to be held by the Saint Denis Basilica, where it was later retired into the Louvre after being carried at the front of Coronation processionals for French kings. Another supposed Joyeuse is held at the Imperial Treasury in Vienna.

The town of Joyeuse in Ardèche, is supposedly named after the sword: Joyeuse was allegedly lost in a battle, and retrieved by one of the knights of Charlemagne; to thank him, Charlemagne would have granted him an appanage named Joyeuse.

Baligant, a general of the Saracens in The Song of Roland, named his sword Précieuse, in order not to seem inferior to Charlemagne.

Davidson

Las Vegas
Carboniferous
Organic Chemistry
Prov. 26:8
"As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool."

Moving Sidewalk, Las Vegas

Chess: "Las Vegas" "Carboniferous" "Organic Chemistry" "Davidson"

Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Devonian Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Ma (million years ago), to the beginning of the Permian Period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Ma
The Carboniferous was a time of glaciation, low sea level and mountain building; a minor marine extinction event occurred in the middle of the period. The name comes from the Latin word for coal, carbo. Carboniferous means "coal-bearing". Many beds of coal were laid down all over the world during this period, hence the name.

A global drop in sea level at the end of the Devonian reversed early in the Carboniferous; this created the widespread epicontinental seas and carbonate deposition of the Mississippian.^[7] There was also a drop in south polar temperatures; southern Gondwanaland was glaciated throughout the period, though it is uncertain if the ice sheets were a holdover from the Devonian or not.^[8] These conditions apparently had little effect in the deep tropics, where lush coal swamps flourished within 30 degrees of the northernmost glaciers
A mid-Carboniferous drop in sea-level precipitated a major marine extinction, one that hit crinoids and ammonites especially hard.^[8] This sea-level drop and the associated unconformity in North America separate the Mississippian period from the Pennsylvanian period.^[8] This happened about 320 million years ago^[10], at the onset of the Permo-Carboniferous Glaciation

The Carboniferous was a time of active mountain-building, as the supercontinent Pangaea came together. The southern continents remained tied together in the supercontinent Gondwana, which collided with North America–Europe (Laurussia) along the present line of eastern North America. This continental collision resulted in the Hercynian orogeny in Europe, and the Alleghenian orogeny in North America; it also extended the newly-uplifted Appalachians southwestward as the Ouachita Mountains.^[12] In the same time frame, much of present eastern Eurasian plate welded itself to Europe along the line of the Ural mountains. Most of the Mesozoic supercontinent of Pangea was now assembled, although North China (which would collide in the Latest Carboniferous), and South China continents were still separated from Laurasia. The Late Carboniferous Pangaea was shaped like an "O."

There were two major oceans in the Carboniferous—Panthalassa and Paleo-Tethys, which was inside the "O" in the Carboniferous Pangaea. Other minor oceans were shrinking and eventually closed - Rheic Ocean (closed by the assembly of South and North America), the small, shallow Ural Ocean (which was closed by the collision of Baltica and Siberia continents, creating the Ural Mountains) and Proto-Tethys Ocean (closed by North China collision with Siberia/Kazakhstania).

Guanábana

Burnham
Coconut
Tamarindo
Guanábana
Amsterdam

Prov. 24:11-12
"If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

Burnham Overy Staithe Windmill

Chess: "Burnham" "Amsterdam" "Coconut" "Tamarindo" "Guanábana"

Brook: Quebrada

Wet & Wild
Brooke
Quebrada Humahuaqueña

Natalia Coto