“The time has come the walrus said, to talk of many things,

Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings,

And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings.”

— Lewis Carroll, 1871

The above poem was written 153 years ago by the author of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Some literary historians say it’s about sex, some say it’s about eating disorders, and still others believe it was a veiled reference to colonization.

It is one of my favorite poems I learned as a child in the Geneva public school system. Don’t know why I like it, but there you go, there’s no accounting for what clicks with someone, is there? I believe it also may be the only poem (well, that can be repeated in polite company. Lol!) that I........

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