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“The time has come,” the Walrus said,

To talk of many things:

Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—

Of cabbages—and kings—

And why the sea is boiling hot—

And whether pigs have wings.”

Thus spake the Walrus to the Carpenter (Figure 0.1) in Alice Through the Looking Glass [1].

Here, in this treatise, Gentle Reader, you will be led through the world of the Periodic Table; a world even more exciting, more wondrous, more bizarre, than anything Lewis Carroll could have ever imagined.

Figure 0.1 The Walrus, the Carpenter, and the Little Oysters.

Reference

1.L. Carroll, More Annotated Alice: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, with notes by Martin Gardner; Random House, New York, NY, 220 (1990).