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The Astonishing Quadwheel, Saab Motorcars Advertisement.
Motor Sport Magazine (UK), March 1963.
"Will you drive a little faster," said the Charmer to her male.
"There's a motor right behind us and he's treading on our tail."
... Will you, won't you, will you, won't you,
why don't you get a SAAB?"
The Charmer is Alice, "her male" is the Hatter, and the Carroll poem being played on is of course, "The Lobster Quadrille," which begins, "Will you walk a little faster said a whiting to a snail," and which itself parodies Mary Howitt's "The Spider and the Fly": "Will you walk into my parlour, said the spider to the fly..." Just one more example of Carrollian wit being cleverly appropriated by ad writers. |