Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll · first published 1865
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized in the fairy tale genre. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May, uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a s
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on “Ask HN: What are some good books?” ↗…book—would prefer PDFs. (I know, not a popular format apparently.) I like the idea of Project Gutenberg but guess I found book scans on archive.org my preference. My go-to example is Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" with the fantastic art of John Tenniel and Carroll's sometimes creative formatting of the prose… I see they (Project Gutenberg) have ePub now, which can be good if well done. (If not well done it can…
on “Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better” ↗…reading Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice. Gardner, who was the puzzle editor for Scientific American for decades, is also a Lewis Carroll scholar, and his annotated versions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are tremendous. http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Alice-Definitive-Lewis-Carro...
on “Algebra in Wonderland” ↗…are so bad, that in many cases they are nothing like the originals. One example: Disney's version of 'Alice in Wonderland' is some weird melange of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' and his 'Alice Through the Looking Glass'. Go ahead and read the two Lewis Carroll books, then watch the Disney 'Alice in Wonderland' video. For your own education, if nothing else, compare many of the Disney stories to the original versions…
on “Star Wars Novelists Seek Years of Missing Royalty Payments from Disney” ↗…interesting thing one can say about this article?"[1]), let me ask you this: is the distinction you're making here at all material to the article? Did you consider the possibility that the author hasn't read Through the Looking-Glass in a while (a "Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Genetics" means you have to put off a good bit of recreational reading for a number of years) and thought that the explanation was close enough as background information…
on “Humans evolving to escape from bacterial iron piracy” ↗…Parton which employs two chessboards rather than one,[a] and a slight (but significant) alteration to the standard rules of chess. The game is named after the main character "Alice" in Lewis Carroll's work Through the Looking-Glass, where transport through the mirror into an alternate world is portrayed on the chessboards by the after-move transfer of chess pieces between boards A and B.
on “Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?” ↗…“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” [LEWIS CARROLL (Charles L. Dodgson), Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 6, p. 205 (1934). First published in 1872.] If you talk with people in public, is it much better to either use commonly accepted meanings of words, or at least mention your your own definitions…
on “Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug cartels' profits” ↗"How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? I wonder if they'd give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to drink." Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
on “Mirror life” ↗…more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
on “Logical Fallacies” ↗…more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass By not having the 'rules-based order' down in black and white, the West has maintained being the 'master' and in control by pure military power. Unfortunately, that time has gone. If the West wanted…
on “A Cold War Turns Hot: What Needs to Happen Now?” ↗Some call it an instance of the Red Queen effect, right out of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, promise free education from Harvard and other elite colleges, but only if you have broadband access to watch those free lecture videos. Many lack such access, and…
on “'Bandwidth Divide' Could Limit Reach of MOOCs” ↗…“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” [LEWIS CARROLL (Charles L. Dodgson), Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 6, p. 205 (1934). First published in 1872.]
on “More phones, few banks, instability are transforming Somalia to cashless society” ↗…is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” -- LEWIS CARROLL (Charles L. Dodgson), Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 6, p. 205 (1934). First published in 1872. :D
on “Google Noto Fonts” ↗…to do whatever you like. - 'Neil Gaiman on open source', Peter Hilton When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. - Humpty Dumpty ("in a rather scornful tone"), 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There' (1871), Lewis Carroll A rose by any other name will end up as a cabbage. - Sam Gardiner A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. - Max Weinreich Words build bridges…
on “Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber” ↗Yes, I think you'd call it a Red Queen Problem: “Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.” -Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
on “Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?” ↗