The magic of Alice …

… The Low Door in the Wall. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The supposed “nonsense” of Carroll’s work is actually nothing of the kind. He employs an especially beautiful, tough English which, like the King James Bible, rarely uses words of more than two syllables and conjures up expressions in the reader’s mind (if he reads it silently) or in his tongue, (if he reads it aloud). Nobody now remembers the poems he satirizes in “Jabberwocky” and “You Are Old, Father William,” because the parodies are so much better than the originals, no doubt classics of their time.