I love Carroll very much, because The Snark is just superb and Jabberwocky still makes fireworks go off in my head. I don't think anyone else comes close. Lear I like, but I always get the feeling he's holding himself back and could be funnier. I picked up a little Peake anthology the other and I think I'm going to check him out - he seems to be not at all similar to other nonsense I've read. I would like to like Milligan, but he always seems to be trying too hard. (Ning Nang Nong indeed.)
Who else? Is there anyone else? And let's have some quotes too...
― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 10 February 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)
And now, if e'er by chance I put
My fingers into glue,
Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot
Into a left-hand shoe,
Or if I drop upon my toe
A very heavy weight,
I weep, for it reminds me so
Of that old man I used to know--
Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow
Whose hair was whiter than the snow,
Whose face was very like a crow,
With eyes, like cinders, all aglow,
Who seemed distracted with his woe,
Who rocked his body to and fro,
And muttered mumblingly and low,
As if his mouth were full of dough,
Who snorted like a buffalo--
That summer evening long ago,
A-sitting on a gate.
― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 10 February 2003 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)
search: Tristan Tzara, The Chants of Maldoror.
― fletrejet, Monday, 10 February 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)
The sausage is a cunning bird,
It flits from bough to bough.
It makes its nest in the rhubarb tree,
and whistles like a cow.
I have no idea who wrote this. Apart from me. Just then.
― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Monday, 10 February 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)