March 8, 2010
The Forbidden Forest Of Baroness Gertrude Ludwig Dodgson
“I entered the forest here and a hare appeared, then did many more everywhere in a prolific dance, prancing into a murky world of green and blue, a haze of dark colors ablaze dripping morning dew hidden beneath the roof of tree’s shelter as insects flew and fungus grew. I waited in the pond, ankle deep, address of blue silk pattern in hand to avoid getting it wet, an arrow on it pointing the way which kept changing as I moved. My thoughts were adrift absorbing the visual play seeing images all around me reflected off the pond’s surface. After a conversation with a flying squirrel who had spoken to me about the rocky, bumpy hole with the hare, I jumped into this whole, over there, traveling to an another place to attend a tea party with all sorts of strange talking creatures, going through keyholes and eating mushrooms along the way.”
This excerpt, hand-written in Yiddish, was found in the diaries of German Baroness Gertrude Von Ludwig Dodgson, reportedly the second cousin once removed of Charles Lutwig Dodgson, known by the pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, noted British author and master of Literary nonsense. His most popular works include “Jabberwocky”, “The Hunting Of The Snark” and the complete works of “Alice in Wonderland”.
Disney studios brought it to the screen as a beloved 1951 epic animated fantasy, an interpretive adaptation of colors and epic symbols about the girl with golden hair seeing a talking hare, holding watch, nervously observing the direction as thyme grew late for a clue that would help him find his lost hole, running, claiming to be late for a very important date, a gathering with some questionable characters hosted by a loonytoon with attitude and a hat. Now, Tim Burton has created a 3D version starring Johnny Depp.
Dodgson never met his cousin who had been committed to the Bavarian Sanitarium For Anthropomorphic Research when she was observed talking to birds, squirrels and vampire bats migrating from Romania. After her death caused by an attack from a hive of bumble bee’s and spawning salmon, her vast estate including a crypt of secret documents and diaries from some of the most illustrious royal families of Europe, were left to her closest living relative then known by the name Lewis Carroll.
These quotes are believed to be the basis of his most popular books, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and its sequel, Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There. Many parallels can be found between his novel nonsense and the stories in her most recent diaries.
Since imagination is a place where living or inanimate objects can have human qualities, it’s sensible to conclude that animals, imaginary people, and even cartoon characters we know can’t exist, can also act with human traits in a place where everything makes scents despite having no logical sense.









































Blue eyes, female and a full head of hair here, brown eyes, male, and bald, over there. Even Enantiomers, known in science as mirror image compounds, have very different chemical properties although they contain the same elements in mirror image positions.
The creature was often found laced in a landscape of vivid green against a backdrop of brown earth tones uncovered by the surf as it defended its turf from the monsters that lurked beneath the waves of bubbly foam as they spread across the sand along the endless stretch of beaches filled with an incalculable number of grains of sand dried by the beating sun. For the Malacostraca had a special way to mark its territory, with a sign and a gesture.
He would often tell the onlookers in his most sought after discourse, The Fundamentals of Cosmology that “many of the ancients claimed they saw the Malacostraca descend from the constellation of Taurus and others thought that this was a bunch of bull, because they argued, it seemed more likely that the creature came from Cancer to match its cantankerous personality.”
“Well, to be perfectly honest Mr. Crab, I can’t tell the forest from a tree since I don’t know how many of them constitute a forest, any more than I know how many grains of sand are needed to make a beach.”
The number 9 is the natural whole number following 8 ½ and preceding 10, also known as a Motzkin number to indicate the different ways of drawing non intersecting chords on a circle between n points. It’s ordinal adjective is ninth.
Nine is also a musical adaptation based on Italian director Federico Fellini’s autobiographical cinematic masterpiece, 8 ½ (Otto e mezzo). The movie was awarded the Best Foreign Film of 1963. His choice of the number as the title of film is said to represent the six feature films, two shorts and the one film Fellini co-directed up to that point. Add music to 8 ½ and you have 9. The film version is currently in production somewhere in Rome and stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Guido Contini and Sophia Loren as Mama in a sweeping epic of creative and sexual reflection set for release November 2009.



