Category Archives: Lewis Carroll
ALICE IN WONDERLAND as a poem
(My reconfiguring of Lewis Carroll’s story as a poem)
PREFACE POEM AND CHAPTER 1
DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE
CHAPTER 2
THE POOL OF TEARS
CHAPTER 3
A CAUCUS RACE AND A LONG TALE
(Further video-chapters to follow)
Clasics in Ñspel: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, by Lewis Carroll
(Through the Looking-Glass – Contents – by Lewis Carroll, transcribed into Ñspel, a new way of spelling devised by Frank Johnson. With audio accompaniment.)
wɖ iḷstreśnz bî Jon Teńl
Orijinli publiśt bî Mcmiḷn n Cumṗni in 1872
C O N T E N T S
ĆAPTRZ
I: Lcñglas hǎs
II: Đ gardn ov lîv flǎrz
III: Lcñglas insects
IV: Twīdldúm and Twīdldī
V: Wŭl and wōtr
VI: Humti Dumti
VII: Đ Layn and ɖ Yṇcorn
VIII: “It’s mî ǒn invnśn”
IX: Qīn Alis
X: Śecñ
XI: Wecñ
XII: Ẃć drīmd it?
Clasics in Ñspel: JABBERWOCKY, by Lewis Carroll
JAḄWOCI
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’Tẉz brilig, n ɖ slîɖi tovz
Dd gîr n gimbl in ɖ wêb;
Ol mimzi wr ɖ boṛgovz,
N ɖ momraʈs ǎtgreb.
“Bwer ɖ Jaḅwóc, mî sun!
Ɖ jwz ɖt bît, ɖ clwz ɖt cać!
Bwer ɖ Jubjub brd, n śun
Ɖ frūmịs Banḍsnać!”
H tc hiz vorpl sord in hand:
Loñ tîm ɖ manx̣m fo h sòt –
So restd h bî ɖ Tumtum tri,
N std aẃîl in ʈt.
N az in ufiś ʈt h std,
Ɖ Jaḅwóc, wɖ îz v flem,
Cem wif̣lñ ʈru ɖ tulgi wŭd,
N brbld az it cem!
Wn, tu! Wn, tu! N ʈru n ʈru
Ɖ vorpl bled wnt snicrsnac!
H left it ded, n wɖ its hed
H wnt g’lumfñ bac.
“N hz ɖǎ slein ɖ Jaḅwóc?
Cm t mî armz, mî bīmiś bô!
Ô frabjs de! C’lu! C’le!”
H ćortld in hiz jô.
’Tẉz brilig, n ɖ slîɖi tovz
Dd gîr n gimbl in ɖ wêb;
Ol mimzi wr ɖ boṛgovz,
N ɖ momraʈs ǎtgreb.
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