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To: arete
As a sometime Carroll scholar, I can't help stepping forward here . . .

I consulted my facsimile of the 1865 edition (Richard Clay, London) - Chapter II, The Pool of Tears:

"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); "now I'm opening out lie the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!"

This matches the text in Gardner's Annotated Alice as well. (p. 35).

ALWAYS verify your references, and NEVER use secondary sources. While it has nothing to do with your argument here, it weakens your position.

96 posted on 04/27/2003 9:33:50 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
While it has nothing to do with your argument here, it weakens your position

You are really grabbing at straws. I'm very flexable and actually don't care how curiousor or curiouser is spelled. I've seen it spelled both ways but I wasn't the one who used my particular spelling as a basis to discredit me. One the other hand to say that something has nothing to do with the main topic but then in the same sentence say that it weakens my argument is ridiculous. That is part of the larger problem though. When people become obsessed with the all consuming need to be right, they are apt to say some pretty silly stuff.

Richard W.

103 posted on 04/27/2003 10:50:39 AM PDT by arete (Greenspan is a ruling class elitist and closet socialist who is destroying the economy)
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