Song 46 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Lewis Carroll. For the third time the Elsie Dee Project has fallen for the absolute charm of Lewis Carroll. This time, we used part of a poem taken from his Phantasmagoria. It is a kind of humoristic ars poetica, as light sounding as it is deep and «heavy» in content. As one the main nonsensical poets, Lewis Carroll gives us here the secret of endless meaning. Some twenty years after his death, the French surrealists started playing literary games using the same method of writing not to convey conventional meaning but to create new meanings, as did the Socrates for Victorian nerdy girls. And so did some of the poets of the OULIPO workshop (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle).