A Blog of Bosh

Pinocchio, questo benedetto toscano
Concepito nell’aprile 1881, il capolavoro di Collodi compie centoventi anni. La Toscana ha perci� indetto il “1° Festival del Teatro di Pinocchio”. Molti spettacoli in tutta Italia.[On the aniversary of Collodi's conception of Pinocchio, with a short reference to EL.In Italian.]Il Nuovo

Granddaughter of Lewis Carroll’s Muse Puts Collection Up for Sale
The archive includes hundreds of letters, photographs, manuscripts, journals and other pieces of family memorabilia, among the most prominent of which are a group of photographs by Lewis Carroll; two highly personal letters from him, to Alice and to her mother, Lorina; and Alice’s own, specially [...]

The Learian Limericks Augmented and Revised
[I never thought they needed augmentation and/or revision; anyway here is Mr Jeliss's presentation of his 'improvements' -- Marco.]
Many of the nonsense verses of Edward Lear which take the form now known as a limerick end with a line that merely repeats the first line with but slight variation. Since [...]