"I love my coffee and enjoy art" is the same thing as "I love my art and enjoy cofee"

A cup of tea, or perhaps some coffee? Needless to say both are served exquisitely hot. But opinions are diverse and the debate rages on ...

Should the two perennial adversaries become a game of chess in itself then it would become a game without ending indeed!

Such an endless debate has agonized many a household dinner party guest with great eloquence and passionate appeal on either side of the petition. Yet there is no winner in sight as the clock ticks on and on past the midnight hour chimes; the prattle continues, the argument surges and respites. We live to contest another day with fervent desire of settling this discussion for once and for all.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,  shortened to Alice in Wonderland, was first published as a novel in 1865 by the English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll b. 1832 d. 1898. The tale of Alice has always been appreciated enthusiastically as one of the greatest works of absolutely ridiculous literary nonsense at its most finest! With chopped up logic Lewis Caroll enthralls his audience both young and old with a captivating story that somehow holds together through all the episodes with a unique originality. 

Thus at the Mad Tea_Party, the author writes ...

'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on.

'I do,' Alice hastily replied: 'at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know.'

'Not the same thing  bit!' said the Hatter. 'You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"! '

'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, 'that "I like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I  like "!'

'You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'

Thus  with equally poignant logic I must confirm to my readers that though "I love my coffee and enjoy art" it might just as well mean the same thing as "I love my art and enjoy coffee"!

Dear readers, please grab hold of your hot cup of coffee, kindly omit the tea and find equal if not greater delight when you turn to this great English classic which never fails to warm and amuse the spirit in those dark, lonely and cold hours of the evening.

The original engravings in the novel were created by the English cartoonist Sir John Tenniel b. 1820. d. 1914.

Finally, the author himself, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was an avid reader, a professed cat-lover, and most importantly, a self-declared coffee drinker!



For all those that love art with their coffee  please turn to my other blog  - 

http://live-think-breathe-art.blogspot.com/

and thank you and welcome to my new blog on the timelessness of art and some decidedly decent conversation on what it generally takes to inspire mankind as a whole to more loftier visions!


Reflections upon art and coffee - Pieter Bergli, coffee enthusiast and narrator.