【英文原著类】SYLVIE and BRUNO(色尔维和布鲁诺).pdf

SYLVIE and BRUNO
SYLVIE and BRUNO
by LEWIS CARROLL
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SYLVIE and BRUNO
Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the goldern gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show
We flutter idly to and fro.
Man's little Day in haste we spend, And, from its merry noontide, send
No glance to meet the silent end.
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SYLVIE and BRUNO
PREFACE.
One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, at p. 77, was drawn
by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it
seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures,
that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, at pp. 386, 387, of Sunday as spent by children of the
last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-
friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a
reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the
year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,'
which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it
the nucleus of a longer story. As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd
moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred
to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no
choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to
oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes
of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out
from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark
but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing--
specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a
cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,'
which came into my head (as I h