TOTALLY TRIVIAL ASIDE: Lewis Carroll

Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:11:59 -0800

At 05:16 PM 19/11/99 -0500, Sean wrote:

>> In one of Piers Anthony's books a
>> character explained, "if it's not your birthday, it is your unbirthday!"

>This originally comes from "Alice in Wonderland", during the Tea Party
sequence
>with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, in which they were having an
unbirthday
>party. Piers Anthony seems to have liffted it for his own purposes.

Lewis Carroll, as a playful logician, might have smiled at this happy typo. So the (appallingly) punnish Mr Anthony lifted it if and only if it suited his own purposes? Mais oui!

Damien Broderick