Re: [ejlist] Alice In Wonderland

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In einer eMail vom 21.11.99 00:34:14 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt 
rcalvom@ctv.es:

> Hi, Junguerites
>  
>  Need some help. Does anybody know any coment of EJ on Lewis 
>  Carrol? Thanks in advance
>  
>  Best regards
>  roberto
>  

I don't know of any reference and I don't think EJ was too much into this 
kind of literature. But the record of a conversation between the editor of 
the cultural department of a big Frankfurt newspaper and our author from 
somewhen around his hundredth birthday came into my possession, which I do 
not want to withhold:

  `You are old, Father Ernest,' the editor said,
      `And your hair has become very white;
    And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
      Do you think, at your age, it is right?'

    `In my youth,' father Ernest replied to the young,
      `I feared it might injure the brain;
    But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
      Why, I do it again and again.'

    `You are old,' said the youth, `as I mentioned before,
      And have grown most uncommonly fat;
    Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
      Pray, what is the reason of that?'

    `In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
      `I kept all my limbs very supple
    By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box--
      Allow me to sell you a couple?'

    `You are old,' said the youth, `and your jaws are too weak
      For anything tougher than suet;
    Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
      Pray how did you manage to do it?'

    `In my youth,' said the master, `I took to the law,
      And argued each case with my wife;
    And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
      Has lasted the rest of my life.'

    `You are old,' said the youth, `one would hardly suppose
      That your eye was as steady as ever;
    Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--
      What made you so awfully clever?'

    `I have answered three questions, and that is enough,'
      Said the master; `don't give yourself airs!
    Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
      Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!'


Greetings

Walter