As it fell upon a day (Early Carroll verse)

As it fell upon a day is a piece of early verse by Carroll. Here it is in full!

There's honestly something deeply fascinating about Carroll's early verse - almost as if you can sense Carroll's talents for absurd nonsense evolving. 


As I was sitting on the hearth

(And O, but a hog is fat!)

A man came hurrying up the path,

(And what care I for that?)


When he came the house unto,

His breath both quick and short he drew.



When he came before the door,

His face grew paler than before.


When he turned the handle round,

The man fell fainting to the ground.



When he crossed the lofty hall,

Once and again I heard him fall.


When he came up to the turret stair,

He shrieked and tore his raven hair.

When he came my chamber in,

(And O, but a hog is fat!)

I ran him through with a golden pin,

(And what care I for that?)

`But how can it have got there without my knowing it?’ she said to herself, as she lifted it off, and set it on her lap to make out what it could possibly be.
It was a golden crown. `Well, this is grand!’ said Alice. `I never expected I should be a Queen so soon”

Lovely Alice’s adventures in Wonderland illustrations by Giovanni Manna.

Love the illustration of Alice and the Cheshire cat! 

Daisies (1966) reference in Mucednici lasky (1967)

Not sure how well known this reference is but...

The two Maries from Daisies (1966) also crop up in a cameo appearance of another film,  Mucednici lasky (1967)

Mucednici lasky was an anthology film also in the Czech New Wave film movement (of which Daisies was also a part of) and the characters of the Maries are seen in a cameo in the first segment.

Interestingly this segment takes place in a jazz club, and the fact the singing is similar might be a reference to the silent jazz club scene in Daisies.

As the Maries's cameos in this film are not written by the writers of Daisies, they seem a bit annoying here.  Then again this scene is from the viewpoint of society... 

You can see this via a brief clip on youtube.