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 wallace
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Registered: 07/25/04
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 alice's adventures in wonderland
#4480245 - 08/01/05 06:21 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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I finally bought a used copy of alice's adventures in wonderland for a couple of bucks the other day because I had never read it or seen the movie and plus the hippies made such a big deal of it in the sixties. And then there is the famous picture of the caterpillar smoking the hookah on the mushroom.
This is by John Tenniel, the chap that did the original illustrations for the book. I figure he is drawing a real mushroom, or drawing the mushrooms after looking at them for a while in the forest. The cap on the big one is not perfectly round, and seems to have striations toward the margin, and on the small one, the bell-shaped cap seems to have an in-curved margin (is it a dung-lover?) things you wouldn't do to a mushroom unless you looked at them for a while. What genus would you put the small ones? The large one? Same genus? Sorry the scan is not larger--that might give you more habitat info.
And by the way, people say that the hookah showed his interest in opium. I once saw an opium pipe used in the 19th century in China (a friend bought one at an antique market there) and it didn't look like a hookah.
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Wallace
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samlernihan1
Stranger
Registered: 06/24/05
Posts: 64
Loc: ny
Last seen: 6 years, 9 months
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Re: alice's adventures in wonderland [Re: wallace]
#4480368 - 08/01/05 08:03 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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its cool but i think its in the wrong place.
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i could die for you
o this life i choose
im hear to be your only go between
to tell you of the sights these eyes have seen
what i really wana do is turn it into motion beauty that i can abuse
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samlernihan1
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Registered: 06/24/05
Posts: 64
Loc: ny
Last seen: 6 years, 9 months
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Re: alice's adventures in wonderland [Re: samlernihan1]
#4480371 - 08/01/05 08:04 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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my bad im retarded i didnt even read your whole post.
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i could die for you
o this life i choose
im hear to be your only go between
to tell you of the sights these eyes have seen
what i really wana do is turn it into motion beauty that i can abuse
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 YESSUP
In The Thick Of It
Registered: 06/26/05
Posts: 2,773
Loc: SE Tex
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Re: alice's adventures in wonderland [Re: samlernihan1]
#4480394 - 08/01/05 08:18 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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LMAO!
Hoooook it up Mr. Caterpillar!
Whooooooo Are Youuuuuuuuu!
What no cool pics?
We need some rain I have no mushrooms to photograph and I'm gettin kinda board!
I'm reduced to wild life shots!
Like Mr Leeezard here..
Mr. Lizard Want a Hamburger?
Yezzup! 
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Gut Feeling leads to anxiety, Anxiety leads to fear, Fear leads to anger,And anger leads to regret.
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mjshroomer
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Registered: 07/21/99
Posts: 13,774
Loc: gone with my shrooms
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Re: alice's adventures in wonderland [Re: wallace]
#4481755 - 08/01/05 03:44 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hey Wallace,
Ther eis a whole 30 page pictorial of Lewis Carroll and the Girl Alice on which the books are based either in the Ethnobotanical forum or the pub forum posted by MJ.
You should check it out. It is good reading.
mj
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