>> 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/
>>
>> ☄
