>>8378905

"I like the Walrus best," said Alice: "because you see he was a little sorry for the poor oysters."

"He ate more than the Carpenter, though," said Tweedledee. "You see he held his handkerchief in front, so that the Carpenter couldn't count how many he took: contrariwise."

"That was mean!" Alice said indignantly. "Then I like the Carpenter best—if he didn't eat so many as the Walrus."

"But he ate as many as he could get," said Tweedledum.

This was a puzzler. After a pause, Alice began, "Well! They were both very unpleasant characters—"[2]

"The Walrus and the Carpenter" song is sung by Tweedledum and Tweedledee in the 1951 Disney film Alice in Wonderland with the Moon and the Sun on each side and the oysters. The Walrus is portrayed as an intelligent, but lazy conman, with the Carpenter as a hardworking, but dimwitted sidekick who needs beating with a cane for acting before thinking. All characters in the story are voiced by J. Pat O'Malley. After the Carpenter discovers a family of oysters underwater, the Walrus tries to persuade them to come "walk" with them. The Mother Oyster, on the other hand, knows that the current month is March, one of the 8 months with the letter "R" in which oysters are eaten. She tries to convince her children to stay in the sea, but the Walrus (refusing to take no for an answer) shuts her up (literally) and leads the dozen curious, younger oysters in a Pied Piper-like dance and flute solo ashore, where the Carpenter builds a restaurant from a shipwreck on the beach in six seconds. Once everyone is inside, the Walrus (who somehow doesn't want to share) tricks the Carpenter into preparing some food so that he can eat all the oysters himself (off screen). When the Carpenter returns to find every last oyster devoured and that the Walrus has tricked him, his face turns red with anger and he chases the Walrus outside with his hammer.

Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria.[1] It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s.

"Banana republic" Edit

In one of the chapters, "The Admiral", inspired by the author's experiences in Honduras, where he had lived for six months,[4] he refers to Anchuria as a "small maritime banana republic"; naturally, the fruit was the entire basis of its economy.[5][6] According to a literary analyst writing for The Economist, "his phrase neatly conjures up the image of a tropical, agrarian country. But its real meaning is sharper: it refers to the fruit companies from the United States that came to exert extraordinary influence over the politics of Honduras and its neighbors."[7][8] The expression "banana republic" has been used widely since that time, particularly in political commentaries.[5]

The Proem: By the Carpenter[2]

"Fox-in-the-Morning"

The Lotus and the Bottle

Smith

Caught

Cupid's Exile Number Two

The Phonograph and the Graft

Money Maze

The Admiral

The Flag Paramount

The Shamrock and the Palm

The Remnants of the Code

Shoes

Ships

Masters of Arts

Dicky

Rouge et Noir

Two Recalls

The Vitagraphoscope

Cabbages and Kings can be classified as fix-up novel. In the last chapter of the book, "The Vitagraphoscope", O. Henry suggests that it is a "vaudeville" that is "intrinsically episodic and discontinuous". Some characters do their turn — the vaudeville term for an act — and disappear, and others reappear if only briefly.

>>8379006

>think mirror

Mirrors are for coCIAne

In Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead, the book's main villain - scheming critic Ellsworth Toohey- launches a vicious campaign against the protagonist, unconventional architect Howard Roark. Toohey prefaces his article with a paraphrase of Carrol: "The time has come," the Walrus said/ "To talk of many things:/ Of ships—and shoes—and Howard Roark/ And cabbages—and kings/ And why the sea is boiling hot—/ And whether Roark has wings."[7]

Lines were used as clues in the Ellery Queen mystery story "The Adventure of the Mad Tea-Party".

The surreal short story "The Sea was Wet as Wet Could Be" by Gahan Wilson, first published in Playboy in 1967, was inspired by the poem and includes large portions of it.

In the Beatles song "I Am the Walrus", the walrus refers to the walrus in the book.[8] John Lennon later expressed dismay upon belatedly realising that the walrus was a villain in the poem.[9]

In the play Journey's End by R. C. Sheriff, the character Osborne quotes the poem to Raleigh before going to the trenches.

Harriet the Spy, a 1996 adaptation of the Louise Fitzhugh novel, shows lead character Harriet and her nanny (played by Rosie O'Donnell) reciting alternating lines of the poem to each other on multiple occasions.

A line from the poem was used as the title of the 1965 book Why The Sea Is Boiling Hot: A Symposium On The Church And The World. It was a collection of essays by a group of leading literary and political writers concerning the place of the church in 1960s Canadian society, commissioned by the then-Board of Evangelism and Social Service of the United Church of Canada.

The Jack Warden character "Doc" in the John Wayne and Lee Marvin film Donovan's Reef, quotes part of the poem to his visiting daughter from Boston, who looks down her society nose at the lifestyles of the people who live on the island.

In The Clocks by Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot quotes part of the poem to his visiting mentee, Colin Lamb, who is trying to find the importance of clocks found at a murder scene.

The Lucy Maud Montgomery character "Anne" quotes the part of this poem when talking about things she might learn in college in the book Anne of the Island.

In the Ultimate Muscle manga series the villainous wrestler and superman Neptuneman tells the tale to the good-natured Seiuchin (a walrus-themed hero and wrestler), driving him to embrace his own predatory nature and start displaying an egotistical streak.

The song "That's What Living is to Me" by Jimmy Buffett (on the 1988 album Hot Water) includes the line "The time has come, the walrus said/and little oysters hide their head."

One of the stories in the 1998 Star Trek collection Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, was named "Of Cabbages And Kings", a line taken from the poem.

In the 1999 film Dogma, the Matt Damon character Loki tells a nun this story as his reason for becoming atheist.

In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two, the poem is playfully quoted as "'The time has come,' said Dr. Dimitri Moisevitch to his old friend Heywood Floyd, 'to talk of many things. Of shoes and spaceships and sealing wax, but mostly of monoliths and malfunctioning computers.'" in reference to the events from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In Sandra Cisneros's novel The House on Mango Street, Esperanza recites the poem to Ruthie in the vignette "Edna's Ruthie."[10]

In The Wild Wild West episode "The Night of the Underground Terror", James West briefly quotes from the poem when he first meets the episode's villain.

Some verses of the song are referenced in the song Just One Lifetime, by Sting and Shaggy, included in their collaborative album 44/876.

Composer Paul Safar wrote a string quartet composition to accompany the text of The Walrus and the Carpenter in 2015. It was recorded by the Delgani String Quartet on their CD Invisible Light, with the poem read by Rickie Birran of the Man of Words Theater Company. They've performed this numerous times in public concert.

The quote “‘The time has come,’ the walrus said” is used as code between Irene Dunne and Clive Brook in the 1933 film If I Were Free.

Scottish singer and songwriter Donovan has put the poem to music on his 1971 album, HMS Donovan.

In the episode "I'm a Poet" from the first season of Arthur, Arthur and Buster read poems at the library. Buster reads lines from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and finds it confusing.

Danielfaggot is a carpenter btw

We should get those hobbitsexuals teh legally teh 'gay' teh married

>>8379107

Joobeef that flats for fexas

Makes unrequited homo

At Canadian nambla shekels

Is this fellowship or two towers ?

Milk that walrus Harry

>>8379181

Ride that red rocket homo

spam noises

Modern pedogarchs finance queer snowflake campaigns on questionable image boards in Russia 🇷🇺

Discuss

>>8379226

High in homo

Has double gasketed feature

Fanatical peanut butter and jealous hobbitsexuals drive pedogarch snowflake infomercial on queer Russian image board with Israeli seo software on "red triad" servers

>>8379310

<homo

Confirmed

It's like Salville wants to fapp to a wrestling match 🤼‍♀️

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David hogg has unrequited homo on Russian image board full of queer snowflake Faggots

Discuss

Is it a sardonic homo rage quit ?

Somewhere

There are xenuites

Shocking their nipples

Cause they think they psychic

SOFA KING WE TOD ED

>>8379495

Bacongayte goblins clamor gossip for snowflake keywords

>>8379516

Wow

Idols

Bizarre

>>8379530

Yammering Babel murmurs of middle earth hobbitsexuals

>>8379529

>Yammering Babel murmurs of middle earth hobbitsexuals

>>8379545

>Yammering Babel murmurs of middle earth hobbitsexuals

DANIELFAGGOT

SALAD TOSSER

>>8379566

>Yammering Babel murmurs of middle earth hobbitsexuals

WALRUSJEW JOSH

SALAD TOSSER

Those pesky hobbitsexuals learned it from the Jews

>>8379636

Is it more faggy than last time ?

>>8379649

Bologna that served itself?

>>8379646

Great derppression hams ?

>>8379660

Real porkbellies

Real jewfaghams

>>8379659

Oink oink oink

>>8379694

An ankh is not "rod and ring" btw

>>8379697

Wtf is wrong with that dude

>>8379706

Some dude in a mumu has identity problems

Discuss

>>8379735

Babylon died