插图:亚瑟·拉克姆爱丽丝和姐姐坐在河边,感到很无聊。这时,她注意到一只穿着衣服、带着怀表、会说话的小白兔跑了过去。她跟着它进了兔子洞。Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(commonly shortened toAlice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (Wonderland) occupied by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.www.bugtown.com
The Pool of Tears.Alice swims through her own tears and meets aMouse, who is swimming as well. She tries to make small talk with him in elementary French (thinking he may be a French mouse) but her opening line “Ou est ma chatte?” offends the mouse.www.bugtown.com
Advice from a Caterpillar.Alice comes upon a mushroom and sitting on it is a blueCaterpillarsmoking ahookah.毛毛虫问爱丽丝,爱丽丝承认她现在的身份危机,加上她记不住一首诗。在爬走之前,毛毛虫告诉爱丽丝,蘑菇的一边会让她变高,另一边会让她变矮。她从蘑菇上掰下两块。一边让她比以前更小,而另一边让她的脖子长到高高的树上,鸽子把她当成了蛇。经过一番努力,爱丽丝恢复了平时的身高。她偶然发现了一个小庄园,用蘑菇达到一个更合适的高度。www.bugtown.com
A Mad Tea-Party: Alice becomes a guest at a “mad” tea party along with the March Hare, the Hatter, and a very tired Dormouse who falls asleep frequently, only to be violently woken up moments later by the March Hare and the Hatter. The characters give Alice many riddles and stories, including the famous ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’. The Hatter reveals that they have tea all day because Time has punished him by eternally standing still at 6 pm (tea time). Alice becomes insulted and tired of being bombarded with riddles and she leaves claiming that it was the stupidest tea party that she had ever been to.
The Queen of Hearts introduces Alice to theGryphon, who takes her to theMock Turtle.素甲鱼非常难过,尽管它没有悲伤。He tries to tell his story about how he used to be a real turtle in school, which The Gryphon interrupts so they can play a game.
The Hare and the Tortoise.有一天,一只兔子在取笑乌龟,因为他的脚走得太慢了。“等一下,”乌龟说。“我要和你赛跑,我打赌我会赢。“哦,好吧,”兔子回答说,他觉得这个主意很有趣,“让我们试试看。”大家很快就一致同意让狐狸为他们指路,并由它来判断。时间到了,他们一起出发了,但兔子很快就跑得很远了,他想还是休息一下吧。于是,他躺下,很快就睡着了。与此同时,乌龟继续缓慢地前进,终于到达了目的地。最后兔子被惊醒了,他以最快的速度向前冲去,却发现乌龟已经赢得了比赛。寓意:稳扎稳打才能赢得比赛。 An Aesop’s Fable. Illustration by Arthur Rackham.www.gutenberg.org
The Quack Frog.从前,一只青蛙从他沼泽地的家里出来,向全世界宣布他是一位博学的医生,精通药物,能够治愈所有的疾病。人群中有一只狐狸,它喊道:“你是个医生!你连自己的瘸腿和满是皱纹的皮肤都治不好,怎么还能去医治别人呢?”寓意:医生,治愈你自己吧。一个伊索寓言。插图:亚瑟·拉克姆www.gutenberg.org
The Story of the Three Bears, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Project Gutenburg,en.wikipedia.org
Arthur Rackhamwas born in 1867, in London, England. He studied at the Lambeth School of Art. He illustrated many books includingRip van Winkle(1905),Alice in Wonderland(1907),A Midsummer Night’s Dreamby William Shakespeare (1908),Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm(1909),Cinderella(1919),Sleeping Beauty(1920) and many other children’s books and classics throughout the years until his death in 1939. His last work, forThe Wind in the Willows, was published posthumously. He won gold medals at Milan (1906) and Barcelona (1911), and his books and original art are now collected in many countries throughout the world. Many more Rackham images can be found here:www.artpassions.net
How Arthur Rackham And Hugh Comstock Are Linked
Hugh Comstockwas very familiar with Rackham’s illustrations and when his wife asked him to build her a showroom for her handmade rag dolls “Otsy-Totsys”, the first time builder looked to Arthur Rackman’s illustrations and built his wife a Rackham-inspired cottage, called Hansel. Hugh found his life’s calling in the building of the cottage and proceeded to build twenty one more, all of which can still be found in Carmel today. Comstock was certainly not the only one influenced by Rackham’s drawings, Walt Disney told his illustrator’s to study Rackham’s style before illustrating Disney’s first full length animation, ‘Snow White‘.* And Peter Jackson’s ‘Ent’s were most certainly derived from Rackham’s frequent depictions of Ent-like beings.
休·科姆斯多克的《海边卡梅尔的汉塞尔小屋》。康斯托克的第一个小屋。Linda Hartong摄。talesfromcarmel.com
Marchen (Fairytale) House by Hugh Comstock. Hand cut roof shingles, uneven chimneys, half round door tops are all seen on Comstock cottages. Photo by Linda Hartong.talesfromcarmel.com
Sunwise Turn Cottage by Hugh Comstock. Photo by Linda Hartong,talesfromcarmel.com
‘Curtain Call’ cottage by Hugh Comstock. Many more images here:talesfromcarmel.com
休·科姆斯多克(Hugh Comstock)的塔克盒子(Tuck Box)始建于1928年,作为休的办公室或住宅,但在20世纪30年代初变成了一家餐厅,并一直保留至今。Linda Hartong摄。talesfromcarmel.com
Lillies and Laughter. A Comstock imitation.
Carmel-by-the-Sea.talesfromcarmel.com
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Arthur Rackham’s Fairy Tale Art is available as playing cards at unique3ddigital.com/games