> Dearly beloved logicians, amature and pro among us,
>
> We've been slaving in newsgroup all day and night over dry academic
> subjects. I thought we could now have some amusement on logic at this
> moment!
>
> yesterday i discovered a song (while slaving (literally) in Second
> Life) from the 1960s that is based on the book Alice In Wonderland.
> The song is called White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.
>
> I SO love it.
>
> Of all books i've red in my life, may it be esoteric logic, math, text
> books or philosophical transactions, may it be encyclopedia
> britannica, may it be fictitious such as A Tale Of 2 Cities, may it be
> poetry as of Emily Dickinson, may it be comics as Batman, may it be,
> may it be, but of all the books, that i'm pressed to pick one book as
> my favorite, that will be Alice In Wonderand and Tthru The Looking-
> Glass.
>
> [began unconsciously starting to write on (possible few thousands
> words) my reasons ... but STOP!]
>
> Ok, i don't mean to ramble, but what i wanted to say in this post, was
> that i soooooo love the song. And, i spent about 30 min to write some
> commentaries on the lyrics.
>
> Without further ado, the HTML version with colors, youtube vid, links,
> formatting, is at:
>  http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/sanga_pemci/white_rabbit.html
>
> Following is a plain text version.
>
> Hope you enjoy it as much as i do.
>
> ------------------------------------------
> White Rabbit
>
> White Rabbit (song)↗ (1967) by Jefferson Airplane↗.
>
> 「• pill = Actually, pill doesn't appear in Wonderland. It was a drink
> and a cake, and later mushroom, that makes Alice grow larger or
> smaller. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Chapter 1) 」
>
> One pill makes you larger
> And one pill makes you small
> And the ones that mother gives you
> Don't do anything at all
> Go ask Alice
> When she's ten feet tall
>
> 「• rabbits = Alice chased a White Rabbit and fell into a hole, where
> her dream-like adventure began. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
> (Chapter 1) 」
>
> 「• caterpillar = The caterpillar is somewhat a mysterious sage-like
> character, who smokes a hookah↗. He appeared in Chapter 4. Note that
> caterpillar never gave Alice a call. 」
>
> And if you go chasing rabbits
> And you know you're going to fall
> Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
> Has given you the call
> Recall Alice
> When she was just small
>
> 「• chessboard = Chess is not mentioned in the first book, but is a
> central theme in the sequal. Through The Looking Glass (Chapter 1). 」
>
> 「• mushroom = Mushroom appears first at the end of chapter 4, where
> the caterpillar is sitting on one in chapter 5. The Caterpillar told
> Alice that the mushroom: “One side will make you grow taller, and the
> other side will make you grow shorter.”. Though, there's no indication
> of which is which, as it is round. In subsequent chapters 6 and 7,
> Alice kept the pieces of the mushroom in her pocket so she can nibble
> it and grow or shrink at will. 」
>
> When men on the chessboard
> Get up and tell you where to go
> And you've just had some kind of mushroom
> And your mind is moving slow
> Go ask Alice
> I think she'll know
>
> 「• logic = Logic is a central theme in Wonderland. Its author Lewis
> Carroll is a logician. For example, here's a quote from Chapter 4
> where the word “logic” in mentioned explicitly : «“Contrariwise,”
> continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so,
> it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”» 」
>
> 「• White Knight = The Red Knight and White Knight are main charaters
> in the Looking-glass. The Knights are most prominently featured in
> Through The Looking Glass (Chapter 8). 」
>
> 「• backwards = Backwards, as in reversal, inversion, mirroring, is a
> central theme in Looking-glass. It implicitly applied to time, shape,
> speech. For example, in Chapter 5, excerpt: «“That's the effect of
> living backwards,” the Queen said kindly: “it always makes one a
> little giddy at first—”» 」
>
> 「• off with her head! = The Queen is a central character in
> Wonderland. She is Queen of Hearts of playing card (thus “Red” Queen).
> The Queen is found of execution by shouting “Off with his/her/their
> head”, first spoke in Chapter 7, and said it the most in Chapter 8. In
> Looking-glass, there's the White Queen and Red Queen (of Chess).
> However, phrase “off with ... head” or execution didn't appear in
> Looking-glass. In Looking-glass, Alice start as a pawn, and in the end
> became a Queen herself too. 」
>
> 「• dormouse = Dormouse is a main character in Chapter 7, and also
> appeared in Chapter 11. The Dormouse is most of the time asleep or
> dormant and in that state got manipulated or abused by the March Hare
> and Mad Hatter. The dormouse never said “feed your head” or anything
> like it. However, “feeding” and “head” are recurrent themes. 」
>
> When logic and proportion
> Have fallen sloppy dead
> And the White Knight is talking backwards
> And the Red Queen's “off with her head!”
> Remember what the dormouse said:
> “FEED YOUR HEAD”
>
> YouTube search: White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane↗
>
> What a greatest song!
>
> See also: Wonderland Alice Art Gallery.
>
>   Xah
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄