ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Here's a paragraph from Chapter Three of Alice in Wonderland, concerning the Caucus Race. In the accompanying film, I will read the transliteration as you follow along the written text in Tapissed symbols. It may sound like nonsense at first, but the choice of vocabulary, use of suffixes, and interchangeable parts of speech, all contribute to defining which coordinate in a cycle the phrase falls. The first line of the text begins reading from left to right, then alternates direction on the next line down, and so it continues snaking its path to the end of the paragraph.

THE TEXT
I will translate the text segment by segment below. Each line will display the Tapissed transliteration followed by the English equivalent.
Tapissary: At last / the mouse

English: At last the mouse

Tapissary: On who seemed / to be a person

English: who seemed to be a person

Tapissary: of some authority among them / called out,

English: of some authority among them, called out

Tapissary: "Yourn sitting down / takes this

English: "Sit down

Tapissary: all of you / and yourn listening heeds me!

English: all of you, and listen to me!

Tapissary: My act / soon will cause you dry enough!"

English: I'll soon make you dry enough!"

Tapissary: All of their sitting downs / settled at once

English: They all sat down at once

Tapissary: in a large ring

English: in a large ring

Tapissary: with the mouse

English: with the mouse

Tapissary: in the middle

English: in the middle

Tapissary: Alice's keepance / stayed her eyes

English: Alice kept her eyes

Tapissary: anxiously / fixed on it

English: anxiously fixed on it

Tapissary: for she felt sure / she would bad coldate / a catch

English: for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold

Tapissary: if she / didn't / get dry very soon.

English: if she did not get dry very soon.

Here are the unbroken texts:

English version: At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of some authority among them, called out "Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!" They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.

Tapissed Transliteration: At last the mouse On, who seemed to be a person of some authority among them, called out, "Yourn sitting down takes this, all of you, and yourn listening heeds me! My act soon will cause you dry enough!" All of their sitting downs settled at once, in a large ring, with the mouse in the middle. Alice's keepance stayed her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would bad coldate a catch if she didn't get dry very soon.

I posted this page on August 1, 2008