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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
In case you missed the debut of Found Objects last week, the idea of this feature is pretty simple: I’ll be posting some sort of visual representation of an object, equation, theory or idea that inspired or made its way into a book, film, song, poem, or painting.
Your job is to name it and tell us where it’s found. Today’s visual, found below, is from a novel. Can you name the object, the novel and the author?
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
posted by Mayo on 10-5-2006 at 3:53 pm
The object is the “Fury” poem (in the shape of a mouse’s tale) from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
posted by Morrigan on 10-5-2006 at 3:53 pm
It’s a reach but I believ it is a poem from Lewis Carrol as depicted in “Through the Looking Glass”
posted by Andrew Coyne on 10-5-2006 at 4:02 pm
Ding! Morrigan takes it with all three correct answers. Nice job! I was going to add “Bonus points” for anyone who could remember the poem. Or even a line of it…
posted by David on 10-5-2006 at 4:06 pm
Bonus trivia:
If you write out the poem with standard layout and consistent typography, each stanza has the shape of a mouse.
posted by GCAW on 10-5-2006 at 5:17 pm
That would be the mouse’s tale from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol.
It’s ironic, i was thinking about that one the other day, I don’t remember any lines (I could barely read it anyways), but I think it had something to do with a trial. Eh, my best guess.
posted by Heather on 10-5-2006 at 9:36 pm
“Fury said to the mouse, That he met in
the house, ‘Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you-”
posted by mindlessmunkey on 10-5-2006 at 11:08 pm
Hello to all. I am John Pillband, 22 y.o. This is my first day on the Internet. What should I do?
posted by JPillband on 11-9-2006 at 5:02 am
posted by hipnoj on 12-12-2007 at 9:47 pm
Danielle Donahue
posted by Danielle Donahue on 3-5-2008 at 3:21 pm