Lewis Carroll
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2,228 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Lewis Carroll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's some comfort, she said to herself.
In another moment she felt the carriage rise straight up into the air, and in her fright she caught at the thing nearest to her hand, which happened to be the goat's beard.
But the beard seemed to melt away as she touched it, and she found herself sitting quietly under a tree, while the gnat, for that was the insect she had been talking to, was balancing itself on a bowl.
upon a twig just over her head and fanning her with its wings.
It was a very large gnat, about the size of a chicken, Alice thought.
Still, she couldn't feel nervous with it after they had been talking together so long.
The gnat went on as quietly as if nothing had happened.
I like them when they can talk, Alice said.
None of them ever talk where I come from and
What sort of insects do you rejoice in where you come from?
The gnat inquired.
I don't rejoice in insects at all, Alice explained, because I'm rather afraid of them, at least the large kinds.
But I can tell you the names of some of them.
I've never known them to do it.
What's the use of they're having names?
The gnat said.
If they won't answer to them
No use to them, said Alice, but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose.
If not, why do things have names at all?
I can't say, the gnat replied.
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