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From: jpt@diphi.demon.co.uk (JP Thornley)
Subject: Alice books (was: should I be interested in ada?)
Date: 1999/02/25
Date: 1999-02-25T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <645343458wnr@diphi.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EACHUS.99Feb23183152@spectre.mitre.org

In article: <EACHUS.99Feb23183152@spectre.mitre.org>  
eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
> And if you haven't read both Alice books as an adult, get them
> and read them!  You will find that they were not really written for
> children, and you have to be a pretty sophisticated logician to get
> some of the jokes.

Even better, if you can find it, get hold of Martin Gardner's Annotated 
Alice book*. It explains lots of those jokes, and includes a detailed 
description of the chess moves in the Looking Glass story.

Phil Thornley

*My copy is published by Penguin, so would not have been available in 
the US. But it says: "First published in the U.S.A by Clarkson N. Potter 
Inc. 1960"

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Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-14  0:00 should I be interested in ada? Phillip Helbig
1999-02-15  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-23  0:00   ` David Starner
1999-02-15  0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-16  0:00 ` Ken Thomas
1999-02-17  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` Jerry Petrey
1999-02-18  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00             ` Joel Seidman
1999-02-18  0:00             ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-18  0:00               ` nabbasi
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-20  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-21  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21  0:00                           ` William Clodius
1999-02-22  0:00                           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21  0:00                       ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                         ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` Peter Hermann
1999-02-18  0:00           ` fraser
1999-02-19  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-20  0:00               ` fraser
1999-02-18  0:00         ` William Clodius
1999-02-18  0:00           ` nabbasi
1999-02-18  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00             ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-25  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-24  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-24  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-27  0:00                     ` Semantic info pragmas (was: should I be interested in ada?) Nick Roberts
1999-03-01  0:00                       ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-03-01  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-24  0:00               ` should I be interested in ada? William Clodius
1999-02-25  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00               ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-20  0:00                   ` Steve Doiel
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-24  0:00                       ` White rabbit (was: should I be interested in ada?) dennison
1999-02-25  0:00                       ` JP Thornley [this message]
1999-02-25  0:00                         ` Alice books " Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` should I be interested in ada? dennison
1999-02-19  0:00               ` dennison
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Phillip Helbig
1999-02-18  0:00     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` William Clodius
1999-02-18  0:00           ` dennison
1999-02-20  0:00 ` Hartmut H. Schaefer
1999-02-20  0:00   ` bill
1999-02-21  0:00     ` dewar
1999-02-21  0:00   ` dewar
1999-02-22  0:00     ` dennison
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