I'm a huge fan of this story. I watch the Disney cartoon once a week without fail. So wrong for a children’s tale. The whole tea party scene is classic, I got in deep conversation with my mum about it on the weekend and came to the conclusion that it's like this.
The MAD HATER, Is human, And he's mad. You can't keep his attention for more then 10 secs before he's off on another tangent about nonsense tripe.
Then you've got the Hare, A less pure version of the royal WHITE RABBIT, a dirty rabbit if you will, who is also mad.
Then there is the mouse that can't talk at all and looks off its face, because..... It lives in a tea pot. They're all on Mushrooms, and are drinking mushroom tea, which sends then crazy and that’s why Alice can't make any sense of them. Anywho, not the first to come up with that I'm sure.
But also the end of the story where Alice see's her self through a key hole/ door (Door of perception?) and is yelling at her self “Wake up Alice!" Kinda like trying to snap your self out of a bad trip.
Apparently there is an exacerbation of art inspired by the book on at the moment. Any one know when and were?
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND
JunkiePhil said about 5 years ago or at 12:06PM on Tuesday, September 12 2006 in books
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i love how fucked up childrens authors used to be.
there is a thing on at ngv:
here ya go
do you read the book junkie phil?
it's a very good read. The Annotated Alice in Wonderland is a good book to have by your bed.
I read it on acid once. It didn't do much.
Thanks Pops, Thats the one.
Also, I read a while back that Marylin Manson was maing a flim about the author of Alice In Wonderland, and staring as him. I think It'll be good as he's very much into the dark side of childrens stroys IE Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Original story, text/html version
the story that became alice in wonderland, with art from author
Original story, with art from 1916
Through the looking glass text/html version
Yeah, I've got the book with the orignal ilistrations, which I like. The black and white ye old time drawings are ace. My GF had an Alice In Wonderland cook book that had recipies for Looking glass milk and shit like that. She lost it but I'm trying to find another one for her birthday.
The exhibition is a Blackman exhibition on at the Ian Potter gallery in Fed Square.
Info here
this lad has a couple of artworks inspired by alice in wonderland.
i haven't read a good, creatively /perceptively challenging fiction book that wasn't of the science fiction genre in lord knows how long. everything these days seems to be some sprawling pastoral raymond carver recycled through a third world country bullshit or salman rushdie without the controversy. MORE CRAZY DRUG BOOKS! (irvine welsh, you have dropped the ball). just think, a book like alice in wonderland totally wouldn't get a mainstream release today, (just as caffeine, the driving force behind this rant, wouldn't be approved by the FDA) hmmmm. am i being ignorant?
not about drugs whatsoever...
um... maybe it is
I studied this book in high school maths.
It used to be very hard to find a computer science textbook that didn't quote from Lewis Carrol
These are my fav characters: Bill + the " ? R U" Catterpilla
Lewis Carroll was banned from associating with the real alice, a 4 year old girl as it was rumoured he was a paedophile. True story.
is there a non-animated version of this now?
And there are seemingly some serious drug references in the story ( not sure about the movie, never seen it)
Yeah, I've read he was a pedo as well as a frequent used of LSD or what ever it was back in those days.
Also, Eat this, Drink this.... make you feel larger then life ( Amphetamines) or Small as a flower (Downers) She even takes a bit from a mushroom at one point.
The animation is really good for a 50's cartoon too. They did a great job revamping it all on the DVD.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Alice_Liddell_2.jpg/180px-
alice liddell photographed by Charles himself
There is no evidence of him being a drug user though he was banned by Alice's family from associating with her
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http://yrol.free.fr/CINEMA/SVANKMAJER/images/images/alice1.jpg
gah.
just google svankmeyer and alice. his other stop animation stuff is incredible.
There's more Alice art happening at the Melbourne Fringe for those who are interested!
Tom Waits' record Alice is based on Alice In Wonderland and it's fucking brilliant.
Only just realised on the weekend whilst watching some 60's montage tape that this song is compleatly about Alice.
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Recall Alice
When she was just small
When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen softly dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head"
Just recived a book of this but Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Fuck'n brilliant too!
I've been toying with the idea of getting a R-S tattoo and there is an amazing pic of 'Bill' the lizard. He's my fave....
INK ME!
Link JP?! That sounds amazing.
I don't know if you can actualy read it online, but here are some pics from it.
Cover
The mad hatter is quite weird look'n in it.
Doesn't look so good here, but this is the pic of Bill
Dude, that rules.
The cards are cool too.
You hippies do know this story's about ALGEBRA??
maybe send me yr email if you have a burning desire to read the full article...
I read it the other day Trans. Confirmed why I adore the book so (to the point of letting the 3D SUPAMAXFANTASTICECHO version go fuck itself quietly in a corner), and that my subconscious brain must be awesome. MUST BE AWESOME.
Hahah. AWESOME!
Article sent JP.
Cheers, printed it off, will read tonight.
Bill is your favourite? That's cute.
Yeah, he's my fave in the cartoon anyway.
Read that article last night, jeeze..bit of a stretch I rec'n.
But fair enough.
Way to much math talk for this undergrad.