Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>]

On 31 Mar 2010, at 18:30, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> But of course that is not what the original means. The original
> doesn't suggest that of the many things with name "the White Rabbit",
> one who happens to have pink eyes suddenly ran close by her. The noun
> phrase "a White Rabbit" in that sentence is clearly not used as a
> name. The capital letters are just Lewis Carrol being fancy.

I think it is a mistake on Carroll's part. AT the end of Chapter IV, Alice sees "a large blue caterpillar", but at the beginning of Chapter V, he is named "the Caterpillar".

> In a somewhat similar vein, the typography used for the Mouse's long
> tale/tail is pure visual play, don't expect any spoken cues to
> correspond to that.

Actually the rhyme does give an audible clue:

"Fury said to the mouse
That he met in the house,
'Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you—

Come I'll take no denial:
We must have the trial;
For really this morning I've nothing to do.'

Said the mouse to the cur,
'Such a trial, dear sir, 
With no jury or judge would be wasting our breath.'"

(Imagine each of those as a left-facing mouse with a long tail trailing behind. Cf p. 35 in The Annotated Alice.)

Michael

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