Nik Rye

How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail. And pour the waters of the Nile, on every golden scale. How cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly spreads his claws.
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🐇 Follow the White Rabbit

I could not resist making a flash sheet of John Tenniel’s original illustrations for ‘Alice in Wonderlland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’. I have always been fascinated by his dreamy, yet unnerving etchings that encapsulated the books’ imagery so well.

I am currently thinking about my own Cheshire Cat, Bennie, who passed away just yesterday. Rest in Peace, sweet boy.

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
“I don’t much care where.”
“Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.”
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