Jan. 19th, 2011

wellinghall: (Olympus)
From his shoulder Hiawatha
Took the camera of rosewood,
Made of sliding, folding rosewood;
Neatly put it all together.
In its case it lay compactly,
Folded into nearly nothing;
But he opened out the hinges,
Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges,
Till it looked all squares and oblongs,
Like a complicated figure
In the Second Book of Euclid.
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Lewis Carroll (CL Dodgson), http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/carroll/hia.html

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