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I’ve started read­ing Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-​Glass, and it’s good (though it seems to have a slightly dif­fer­ent tone from Alice in Won­der­land — I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I like it). The absur­dity is very well-​done, in a Chester­ton­ian fash­ion. With things absurd you have to be very care­ful, because it’s easy to blow it and come out as just stupid. But when it’s done right, it’s hilar­i­ous, and it makes you think. I love all the word­plays, by the way. So far there aren’t as many in Looking-​Glass as in Won­der­land, but that’s okay.

As far as the title of this post goes, we vis­ited Tryst Press (a local fine print­ing shop here in Provo, though the web­site appears to be rather out-of-date) on Tues­day for my His­tory of the Book class, and one of the books we got to see was a small edi­tion of “Jabberwocky.” Quite cool. While read­ing it last night, I got a han­ker­ing to make my own edi­tion, illus­trated and all. We’ll see… Speak­ing of which, I’ve got to get started with some River­glen Press edi­tions. Having my laptop break has been a tem­po­rary obsta­cle, but I think I’ll still be able to make things happen.

[tags]Lewis Car­roll, Through the Looking-​Glass, Alice in Won­der­land, G.K. Chester­ton, absur­dity, Tryst Press, Jabberwocky[/tags]