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It was published in 1871 and featured a chapter dedicated to Humpty Dumpty, solidifying his image as an egg in popular culture, with illustrations by John Tenniel depicting him as an egg with clothes and limbs.
And Lewis Carroll comes in through Alice, I'm sorry, through the looking glass in 1871, one of the more spectacularly seemingly drug-fueled tomes to ever be written.
— Episode: Short Stuff: Humpty Dumpty
Episode: Short Stuff: Humpty Dumpty
It was published in 1871 and featured a chapter dedicated to Humpty Dumpty, solidifying his image as an egg in popular culture, with illustrations by John Tenniel depicting him as an egg with clothes and limbs.
And Lewis Carroll comes in through Alice, I'm sorry, through the looking glass in 1871, one of the more spectacularly seemingly drug-fueled tomes to ever be written.
And the Eggman has a chapter in this dedicated to him wherein Alice says she clearly saw that it was Humpty Dumpty himself. It can't be anybody else. I'm as certain of it as if his name were written all over his face.
And so like that was the whole thing where like you and me and everybody else breathing today thinks of Humpty Dumpty as an egg thanks to that book, thanks to that chapter on him, thanks to the fact that he was just out and out at egg.
That's where like the idea of Humpty Dumpty that we have today finds its roots almost, you know, visually and through our imagination from that book.
Episode: Short Stuff: Humpty Dumpty
Published in 1871, it features a chapter dedicated to Humpty Dumpty, cementing his image as an egg-like creature with a human-like appearance in popular culture, thanks to the book's illustrations and narrative.
And Lewis Carroll comes in through Alice, I'm sorry, through the looking glass in 1871, one of the more spectacularly seemingly drug-fueled tomes to ever be written.
And the Eggman has a chapter in this dedicated to him wherein Alice says she clearly saw that it was Humpty Dumpty himself. It can't be anybody else. I'm as certain of it as if his name were written all over his face.
And so like that was the whole thing where like you and me and everybody else breathing today thinks of Humpty Dumpty as an egg thanks to that book, thanks to that chapter on him, thanks to the fact that he was just out and out at egg.
That's the first time it was like, look, it's definitely an egg. Let's just cut to the chase. Face it.
Episode: Short Stuff: Humpty Dumpty
It was mentioned as the 1871 book that solidified Humpty Dumpty's image as an egg, with a chapter featuring Alice and a depiction of him as an egg-like being.
And then Lewis Carroll comes in through Alice, I'm sorry, through the looking glass in 1871, one of the more spectacularly seemingly drug-fueled tomes to ever be written.
And the Eggman has a chapter in this dedicated to him wherein Alice says she clearly saw that it was Humpty Dumpty himself.
It can't be anybody else. I'm as certain of it as if his name were written all over his face.
And so like that was the whole thing where like you and me and everybody else breathing today thinks of Humpty Dumpty as an egg thanks to that book, thanks to that chapter on him, thanks to the fact that he was just out and out at egg.
That's the first time it was like, look, it's definitely an egg. Let's just cut to the chase. Face it.
