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April 24, 1888 Mary Montgomery, Goldens Bridge, Westchester

Photographer: Wallace Goold Levison 

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Various things from today.

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Lewis Carroll’s Microscope

“Carroll had a lifelong interest in the natural world and made frequent visits to Oxford University Museum of Natural History, where he saw the dodo skeleton – still on display – that inspired the Wonderland character. He was also fascinated by the latest technology and scientific methods. This is his microscope, which he used to examine speciments, such as amoebas, other protozoa, and insect larvae. He wrote to his sister Elizabeth that ‘this is a most interesting sight, as the creatures are most conveniently transparent, and you see all kinds of organs jumping about like a complicated piece of machinery… Everyhing goes on at railway speed, so I suppose they must be some of those insects that only live a day or two, and try to make the most of it.” 

– from the Morgan Library and Museum’s Alice 150 exhibition

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Two recurring dreams:

1.  Several of us are sitting in profile on the college lawn that leads down to the river. Joining our voices one by one, we sing in perfect harmony, “Helplessly Hoping,” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. I rarely hear music in my dreams the way I do in waking life, but our music here is crystal clear, and sung all the way though - the entire song, from beginning to end.

2.  I am overwhelmed by the taste of saltwater whenever I kiss.

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“Xie Kitchin asleep on sofa, July 1873,” by Lewis Carroll

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Colorization of a darkroom print from my first ever photo class.

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alternatively.

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So this took all morning and introduced a level of neurosis I don’t know I needed in my life, but I’ve tried colorizing a photograph for the first time. Inspired by finally getting to see Alice 150 at the Morgan Library and Museum, here’s Lewis Carroll’s “Xie Kitchin asleep on sofa, July 1873.”

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The ‘lovely’ Primwaddle Twins, Mort and Harvey, circa 1929.

Their mother, Discordia’s husband left after seeing the homely pair. Embittered to men, left alone to raise boys, she insisted they were girls, and got away with it home-schooling them for 17 years; until Mort learned otherwise. The teenagers murdered her in her sleep, strangled in chiffon, here eyes gouged out and replaced with doll eyes.

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dinner, theater

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