Sunday, December 12, 1999

Here's a good one from Mike's Weblog .

"The LEWIS CARROLL Home Page You know…the guy who wrote ALICE IN WONDERLAND and all that? This page links to a vast variety of online resources, including online reprints of much of Carroll's work, bibliographies, translations of "Jabberwocky" (even into Klingon!), and a lovely centenary exhibition. I could spend a lot of cheerful hours rereading some of this. In fact, I think I'll go have a look at HUNTING OF THE SNARK right now. IN LEWIS CARROLL'S "Through the Looking Glass", Alice innocently wonders at one point whether looking-glass milk is good to drink. In fact, there is an answer to that question: looking-glass milk is best avoided. The reason is that it would contain proteins that are mirror-images of the ones normally found in the body. And although molecules and their mirror-images are chemically identical, our bodies are not used to mirror-image proteins -- making them quite indigestible."

Also from Mike, a site with all sorts of antique labels for sale. The "Alice In Wonderland" bookplate (above) and the food label at the left are miniature examples of only two of the many labels for sale. They have crate labels, cigar box labels, seed packets and more. I love maple sugar and found their maple syrup labels very interesting.

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