David K. Israel
Found Objects
by David K. Israel - October 5, 2006 - 3:46 PM

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?

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Comments (10)
  1. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

  2. The object is the “Fury” poem (in the shape of a mouse’s tale) from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.

  3. It’s a reach but I believ it is a poem from Lewis Carrol as depicted in “Through the Looking Glass”

  4. 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…

  5. Bonus trivia:

    If you write out the poem with standard layout and consistent typography, each stanza has the shape of a mouse.

  6. 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.

  7. “Fury said to the mouse, That he met in
    the house, ‘Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you-”

  8. Hello to all. I am John Pillband, 22 y.o. This is my first day on the Internet. What should I do?

  9. Danielle Donahue

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