Wordy Wednesday: Lewis Carroll

He may have been positively Mad, but there's absolutely no way that ANYONE could say he wasn't a genius of words.
to celebrate Alice in Wonderland week, i'm bringing back Wordy Wednesdays, and naturally, today i'm posting about:

Lewis Carroll

author of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

He often gives us "very good advice", even if we "very seldom follow it":

"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards."

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."

"I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then."

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there."

made us believe in imagination:

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"

"In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?"

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others"

& wrote some of the best poems in literary history, which i have posted on The Q:

All in the Golden Afternoon

[read here]

 

Jabberwocky

[read here]

You Are Old, Father William

[read here]

& my favourite poem of all time...

The Walrus & The Carpenter

[read here]

So Lewis, we celebrate you today, & this entire week. Your words of wisdom over power any sort of creepy undertone, in my eyes. 

[the real Alice, Alice Liddell. Photographed by Lewis Carroll]

& with that curiouser & curiouser notion, i thank you for leading me down the Rabbit Hole & into Wonderland over & over again.

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did someone say GIVEAWAY?!?!

yes... & it was ME!

a few posts ago i wrote the following message:

Comment on this post with your favourite word (& why). Extra points for anyone who submits a fun picture that shows your love for this word. If it's a weirdo word, include a definition, so I can at least not be the only dummy who doesn't know it! Be creative! It can be whatever you want! I'll pick a winner and that lucky little blogger or bloggette will get their ONE WORD on a tee!!!

So, there ya go, hit me with 'em! What's your word gunna be? Diddlysquat? Blasphemy? Triskaidekaphobia? Make 'em good!

For those of your that follow me on Twitter, you've seen me *tweet* about this too. I'm excited to learn some new words & I'm even going to start a big list of all the great ones!

& see my shout outs on www.One-Word-Tees.com on their Contest page!

- this giveaway will go on until (about) November 8th, 2009 so get those submissions in!!!