I never really paid much attention to the Mouse's "Long Tail" in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a kid, because the formatting is kind of engineered to make your eyes kind of flutter over it. If you actually read it, though, the poem itself is amazingly creepy. It has recently become one of my favorite things from that book.
Lewis Carroll was one of those guys who just has a knack for the lyrical quality of words. I only know a few people who have that kind of natural rhythm, and I've come to appreciate it a lot more lately.
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