Alice-themed Brexit Caricatures

Lewis Carroll's Alice again being evoked to make sense of #Brexit by @fotoole, interpreting the Sun title page after the #MeaningfulVote "a lot of frantically anarchic running overseen by a defunct creature, the Brextinct dodo." – Not the first May Dodo! https://t.co/wHVVvrgRO6 pic.twitter.com/NibbRndPtP

— Franziska Kohlt (@frankendodo) January 18, 2019

On the occasion of the renewed #brexitchaos let me remind you of the frabjous Brexit-Jabberwocky by the fantastic @JohnMinnion https://t.co/l67KR1sM4n #AliceInWonderland #Brexitland @madeleinakay @luciendyoung pic.twitter.com/WIeH2HMVGH

— Franziska Kohlt (@frankendodo) November 15, 2018

There have in fact been a few great Alice-inspired Brexit caricatures and parodies, here's 'Alice in Sunderland', on Brexit and Nissan's super-plant plan, by Martin Rowsonhttps://t.co/VeHM2nyTNe pic.twitter.com/N9MVntqyK6

— Franziska Kohlt (@frankendodo) November 16, 2018

"Down the Brexit-Hole" was also a common theme, here by Ingram Pinn for @FT https://t.co/Vcne2eVLti pic.twitter.com/mIbu4Ig6EO

— Franziska Kohlt (@frankendodo) November 16, 2018

“But the principal failing occurred in the sailing”

I reshuffled some lines of The Hunting of the Snark a bit:

Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,
    As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
    By a finger entwined in his hair.

“Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
    That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
    What I tell you three times is true.”

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
    A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes,
    When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.”

But the principal failing occurred in the sailing,
    And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed,
Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East,
    That the ship would not travel due West!

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out
    That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
    And that was to tingle his bell.

 


Meme!


“The thing shall be done!”

349       “The thing can be done,” said the Butcher, “I think.
350        The thing must be done, I am sure.
351        The thing shall be done! …”


https://youtu.be/2N2kp1r-WkI

 


Links:

But the Failing Occurred in the Sailing

But the principal failing occurred in the sailing,
 And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed,
Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East,
 That the ship would not travel due West!

※ www.nicholassoames.org.uk (2018-12-06): Full speech
※ Youtube: The Snark reference starts at 00:09:03.
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