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Lorina Liddell in a garden playing with a ukulele (?), Oxford, summer 1860. Photograph by Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll.

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It's funny how a lot children's TV shows based on Alice in Wonderland try to add some sort of moral, since Lewis Carroll wrote the Alice books as an antithesis to the sort of moralizing literature of the Victorian Era. I feel like if you wanted to make a TV show that captures the spirit of the Alice books, you'd basically have to make what amounts to "G-rated Smiling Friends."

#alice in wonderland #alice's adventures in wonderland #alice through the looking glass #lewis carroll #charles dodgson #this is not a slight against any tv shows based on aiw #more of an observation

Lewis Carroll is an amazing guy. My parents once accidentally bought me this giant book of his stuff. I say accidentally because I no longer remember if it was a deliberate purchase (especially considering the size of the damn thing). It has like all of his poems, all his books, all his word puzzles, etc. It's massive. So I don't ever bust it out often. But it's a neat little thing to have around and available. Should probably buy a smaller bonus copy of Alice in Wonderland too someday, though.

Anyways! Lewis Carroll was not his name. His name was Charles Dodgson. He was mathematician and a poet. He wrote word play puzzles and even invented the form of puzzle known as the word ladder or doublets. He was a priest too, I believe. Most of his life was spent in and/or around one of the high class british universities. He was a bit aristocratic and conservative in his personal life (that part a brief wikipedia skim led me to believe), but he was also a gifted man with words and stories. I mean...if you read Alice in Wonderland, I don't know if you'd immediately assume a mathematician wrote it. But he did. And he wrote more like it.

He's an interesting author. I like children's stories. I especially like humorous stories and fantasy stories. He blended all three. He's a genius of the old classical era. And while this post was inspired by my anger at DC not paying his wonderland books their proper due, I mostly just ended up trying to show how Lewis Carroll is nothing like the character based off his books in these comics.

my collages of Mr. Dodgson and a little bit of Alice over the past two years.

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Me, hearing the words “chortle” or “gyre”, my ears perking and my eyes turning red as if I were a white rabbit: Jabberwocky?? The Jabberwock? ‘Twas Brillig??? Jabberwocky??? Frabjous day??

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