Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
An edition printed in the Nyctographic Square Alphabet devised by Lewis Carroll
By Lewis Carroll
Foreword by Alan Tannenbaum.
First edition, 2011. Illustrations by John Tenniel. Cathair na Mart: Evertype. ISBN 978-1-904808-78-7 (paperback), price: €12.95, £10.95, $15.95. Click on the book cover on the right to order this book from Amazon.co.uk!
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a Lewis Carroll, invented a special writing instrument he called “the Nyctograph” on 24 September 1891, in frustration at the process of “getting out of bed at 2 a.m. in a winter night, lighting a candle, and recording some happy thought which would probably be otherwise forgotten”. This edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is written entirely in the author's unique night-time alphabet. |
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“Are you content now?” said the Caterpillar. | |
| “Well, I should like to be a little larger, Sir, if you wouldn’t mind,” said Alice: “three inches is such a wretched height to be.” | ||
| “It is a very good height indeed!” said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high). | ||
| “But I’m not used to it!” pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone. And she thought to herself “I wish the creatures wouldn’t be so easily offended!” | ||
| “You’ll get used to it in time,” said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again. | ||
| This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away into the grass, merely remarking as it went, “One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.” | ||
| “One side of what? The other side of what?” thought Alice to herself. | ||
| “Of the mushroom,” said the Caterpillar, just as if she asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight. | ||
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