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'The time has come,’ the Walrus
said, “To talk of many things, Of shoes and ships, and sealingwax,
And cabbages and kings, And why the sea is boiling hot, And whether pigs have wings.”
This is the verse from which comes the title of the col-yum of chit-chat. The col-yum is just as the verse reads — nonsense, apropos of nothing, merely idle conversation.
At the time in “Alice Through the Looking-Class” w^en the Walrus and the Carpenter took their little walk along the sands of the seashore, the verse arrived in the poem at a crucial time for the oysters. Unlike the poemstory, the idle talk of this column has no gruesome future plan of devouring invited guests.
The poem states that after the Walrus and Carpenter had invited the oysters to join them for the stroll, the oysters were informed that they were to compose the main bill of fare. Never at any time, please, can this “Walrus” be guilty of even thinking of such a thing! This little bit of space is “To talk of many things . . . "with no malice aforethought—nor ahindthought.
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