WONDERLAND WAVS
Sounds and Visions Through The Looking Glass
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teaparty.wav....Mad Hatter:...."Butter? oh thank you butter...That's fine...Jam..I forgot all about the Jam..Mustard?!?...don't let's be silly...Lemon..that's different!...
(his recipe to repair the White Rabbit's watch)
worldomy.wav....Alice:...singing In A World Of My Own...."Cats and rabbits....would reside in fancy little houses....and be dressed in shoes and hats and trousers....in a world of my own"....
imlate.wav....White Rabitt:...."I'm overdo....I'm really in a stew...no time to say hello...goodbye...I'm late!...I'm late!...I'm late!
trouble.wav....March Hare:...."See all the trouble you've started!"....
unbirth.wav....March Hare:....sings the lead on A Very Merry Unbirthday....toooooooo you!...
weed.wav....The Flowers:...."She's nothing but a common Oblea Vulgarus!?.....a common what?...to put it bluntly.....a weed!"....Alice:..."I am not a weed!"....
subject.wav....March Hare:...."I have an excellent idea!....Let's change the subject!"....
2dayslow.wav....Mad Hatter:...."Two days slow....that's what it is"....
recite.wav....Catterpillar:..."How doth the little crocodile...improve his shining tail...and pour the waters of the Nile...on every golden scale...How cheerfully he seems to grin...how neatly spread his claws...and welcomes little fishies in...with gently...smiling jaws"...
problem.wav....Caterpillar:...."What is your problem?!?".....
aeiou.wav....Caterpillar:...."A.......E......I....O....U"......(his smokin' song)
whoru.wav....Catterpillar:...."Who....R......U.....?"....
walrus.wav....Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee sing the story of the Curious Oysters....
otherwise known as; the Walrus And the Carpenter....
shakhnds.wav....Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee with an ever so proper greeting...."How do you do and shake hands and state your name and buisness!.....That's manners!"......
battle.wav....Tweedle Dum and Dee:...."If you stay long enough we might have a battle!".....
fatherwm.wav....Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee recite for us Father William...." You are old Father William, the young man said...and your hair it's become very white".....
cheshire.wav....Cheshire Cat:...."Can you stand on your head?".....
mad.wav....Cheshire Cat:...."Most everyone's MAD here ah ha ha ha ha....you may have noticed...that I'm not all there, myself...ah hmm hmm"....
twasbrlg.wav....Cheshire Cat:...Sings the story of the Jabberwocky....
You'll find another version on below on .wav, as well as Lewis Carroll's translation of the poem.
madpeopl.wav....Alice:...."But I don't want to go among mad people!".....
redqueen.wav....Queen Of Hearts:...."Off with her head! ! !
begtoend.wav....Mad Hatter:..."Something seems to be troubling you....
won't you tell us all about it?"
March Hare:...."Start at the beginning!"....
Mad Hatter:...."Yes, yes....and when you come to the end.....STOP!"....
...Here we have a special treat.....a different aspect on Alice.....
as British born Finola Hughes (star of Movies and Daytime TV)
recites a few verses from Lewis Caroll's 1862 classic.
goldaftn.wav...."All in a golden afternoon....Full leisurely we glide....For both our oars, with little skill....by little arms are plied....While little hands make vain pretence....Our wanderings to guide."
thetale.wav...."Thus grew the tale of Wonderland: Thus slowly one by one.....Its quaint events were hammered out--And now the tale is done."
chapter1.wav...."Chapter One.....Alice, was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank"....
And now TV actor Josh Duhamel does a bit of the Jabberwocky
From Alice Through The Looking Glass
jaberwok.wav....Jabberwocky....'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe, All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!"....
Here is Lewis Carroll's own interpretation of the Jabberwocky
BRYLLYG (derived from the verb to Bryl or Broil), the time of broiling dinner, i.e the close of the afternoon.
SLYTHY (compounded of SLIMY and LITHE). Smooth and active."
TOVE. A Species of Badger.They had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag; lived chiefly on cheese.
GYRE, verb (derived from GYAOUR, or GIAOUR, "a dog"). To scratch like a dog.
GYMBLE (whence GIMBLET).to screw out holes in anything.
WABE (derived from the verb to swab or soak) "The side of a hill" (from it's being soaked by the rain)
MIMSY (whence MIMSERABLE and MISERABLE). "Unhappy."
BOROGOVE. An extinct kind of Parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sundials: lived on veal.
MOME (hence SOLEMOME, SOLEMONE, and SOLEMN). "Grave."
RATH. A species of land turtle. Head erect: mouth like a shark: forelegs curved out so that the animal walked on it's knees: smooth green body: lived on swallows and oysters.
OUTGRABE, past tense of the verb to OUTGRIBE. (It is connected with old verb to GRIKE, or SHRIKE, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak"). "Squeaked."
Hence the literal English of the passage is: "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were scratching and boring holes in the hill-side; all unhappy were the parrots and the grave turtles squeaked out."
There were probably sundials on the top of the hill, and the borogoves were afraid their nests would be undermined. The hill was probably full of nests of the "raths", which ran out, squeaking with fear, on hearing the "toves" scratching outside. This is an obscure, but yet deeply-affecting, relic of ancient Poetry.
With acknowledgment to: The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner
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