Last year, Lewis Carroll's classic children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was translated into Jersey's native language.
The whole thing is so preposterous that only someone with a Lewis Carroll-like imagination could have dreamt it up.
Probably few readers of Lewis Carroll's Alice books realise that nearly all the poems in them are parodies of now-lost authors.
The Alice theme came about as author Lewis Carroll - whose real name is Charles Dodgson - was born in nearby Daresbury.
Mr Johnston could never find the spark in Lewis Carroll's Alice, with her prim hairband and her white apron, and thought the film a failure.
Where Strange's suit is lyric-subversive, Sebastian Horsley's extravagant red velvet suit and matching top hat is subversion as satire, Lewis Carroll's Wonderland by way of Mephistopheles.
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The Lyric has co-commissioned five theatre companies to make site-specific pieces for Latitude, one of which is Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter's Tea Party brought to life by Les Enfants Terribles.
Who can let themselves enter the magical world of Lewis Carroll, when all they can think about is the exam question: "Brillig is vital to our understanding of Carroll's Jabberwocky, Discuss"?
He rails against the modern language of wine, which he describes as the worst sort of synthesis of Lewis Carroll and George Orwell and creating a club designed to exclude other people.
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There are even more nooks and crannies to snoop around in, skeleton key in hand, looking for clues about the nature of the relationship between Lewis Carroll and his young muse Alice Liddell.
He said the UK needed to bring art and science back together, as it had in the "glory days of the Victorian era" when Lewis Carroll wrote one of the classic fairy tales, Alice in Wonderland, and was also a mathematics tutor at Oxford.
And "Dreamchild" (1985), with Ian Holm as Lewis Carroll and Coral Browne as an aged Alice Liddell, jumps from reality to memory to fantasy and back again as it charts the odd and unsettling, yet somehow life-affirming, relationship between a repressed but brilliant fabulist and his juvenile muse.
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