My new blog, 'Curiouser and Curiouser', which will be
solely dedicated to random knowledge and fun facts that is of interest to me (a
collection of my varied interest in (hopefully!) diverse areas), as
distinguished from this 'personal' blog. Feel free to drop by if interested ;)
For those who
are wondering or are unfamiliar with the phrase, 'Curiouser and Curiouser' is a
very famous statement made by Lewis Caroll's protagonist, Alice, in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
The original quote came from Chapter 2 of the book:-
"’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 like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!’ (for when she looked down at her feet they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off)."
The phrase "curiouser and curiouser" has overtime become a literary shorthand for feelings of wonder and disbelief, and is widely used by writers to evoke those feelings, hence the reason I chose it for this new blog (besides being enthralled by everything Lewis Caroll @ Charles Dodgson for some time) i.e. because the blog is to contain things; knowledge and facts; that I have come across and which has evoke in me feelings of excitement, of wonder and disbelief.
And the reason I use "stillshehauntsme" in the URL of the blog is because the phrase "still she haunts me" also comes from a Lewis Caroll poem on Alice, whereby the poem illustrates the origin of the book. "Still She Haunts Me" is also the title of a biographical work by Katie Roiphe on Lewis Caroll, the allure of the phrase is actually due to countless speculation surrounding Lewis Caroll's fixation with the 'real' Alice (which most of them I find ridiculous due to non-understanding of the mores of Lewis Caroll's era, you guys can Google them up if you want to know further). An excerpt of the poem:-
The phrase "curiouser and curiouser" has overtime become a literary shorthand for feelings of wonder and disbelief, and is widely used by writers to evoke those feelings, hence the reason I chose it for this new blog (besides being enthralled by everything Lewis Caroll @ Charles Dodgson for some time) i.e. because the blog is to contain things; knowledge and facts; that I have come across and which has evoke in me feelings of excitement, of wonder and disbelief.
And the reason I use "stillshehauntsme" in the URL of the blog is because the phrase "still she haunts me" also comes from a Lewis Caroll poem on Alice, whereby the poem illustrates the origin of the book. "Still She Haunts Me" is also the title of a biographical work by Katie Roiphe on Lewis Caroll, the allure of the phrase is actually due to countless speculation surrounding Lewis Caroll's fixation with the 'real' Alice (which most of them I find ridiculous due to non-understanding of the mores of Lewis Caroll's era, you guys can Google them up if you want to know further). An excerpt of the poem:-
"Still
she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving
under skies
Never seen by
waking eyes."
And also because all the other URL's I
wanted to use for my blog is not vailable anymore, such as:
1. 'aradia' - my online name for so
long, which I got from the character of a blind witch maiden in one of the
Night World series I used to read in my teenage days, Black Dawn, Night World being a
book series on the alternate world of vampires, witches and warewolves. Yesss,
long before the world became obsessed with vampires and Twillight and Edward
Cullen, I have gone through that stage looooooooooong ago! haha
2. 'alltheworldsastage' - "All
the world's a stage" is a phrase from William Shakespeare's play As You Like
It, which begins a monologue by the melancholic character, Jaques, in Act II Scene VII.
So guys, do check out my new blog
Curiouser and Curiouser!
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