... and any douglas adams reader knows what THAT means. (very big grin here). if you donŐt: go and read 'the hitch hikerŐs guide to the galaxy'. almost as...
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Dormouse A Sleep
dormouse6@...
Mar 18, 2000 11:45 am
... Oh Arne,....You are absolutely correct about Alice. Now that you tell me that, I recall correspoding her to the five card. I do apologize. I think that...
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Dormouse A Sleep
dormouse6@...
Mar 18, 2000 11:45 am
Matt, If Carroll was attracted towards young girls, I find it interesting that in none of the interviews in Cohen's book did any child complain about having...
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mikeindex@...
Mar 18, 2000 12:19 pm
Hi Dormouse, Interesting thoughts. Actually, if you read Karoline Leach's book, (she has just recommended me to this site by the way), you'll find she argues...
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sabine52@...
Mar 18, 2000 4:09 pm
I sent e-mail to the group last night, but it doesn't seem to have gotten through. I'll attempt to repeat what I wrote. As requested, I have made the archives...
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mikeindex@...
Mar 18, 2000 6:52 pm
I have no problem with a public archive, most discussion-lists have them. I think it's terrific to see it running. Is there any way of adding the most...
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Dormouse A Sleep
dormouse6@...
Mar 19, 2000 2:05 am
I do find it difficult to believe that the Alice in the book was not based upon Alice Liddell. There are far too many references to her and her sisters, as...
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DOYLE60@...
Mar 19, 2000 4:16 pm
<< Karoline also argues that Alice Liddell was in no way the 'Alice' of the books. >> The statement as an island of course is ludicrous. We know many...
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DOYLE60@...
Mar 19, 2000 4:32 pm
<< If Carroll was attracted towards young girls, I find it interesting that in none of the interviews in Cohen's book did any child complain about having been...
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Bob Spark
bspark@...
Mar 19, 2000 5:25 pm
Matt et.al., Possibly these are matters of scholarly interest but they don't appear to be so. I have the perhaps naive view that an author should be judged by...
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KarolineLouise@...
Mar 19, 2000 6:59 pm
In a message dated 19/03/00 17:26:51 GMT Standard Time, bspark@... ... other. ... Bob, I agree that such a discussion can be prurient - but I don't...
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Arne Moll
arnemail@...
Mar 19, 2000 8:02 pm
... I agree. And besides the obvious reasons why research about Carroll the Man is important for the reception of his works,- it is just very *interesting*! I...
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Arne Moll
arnemail@...
Mar 19, 2000 11:52 pm
Hello, I have made a .zip file of all messages on this mailinglist from May 1998 until now. Please message me privately if you're interested (it's about 400k)....
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mikeindex@...
Mar 20, 2000 1:07 pm
Hi, since everyone has been talking about Karoline Leach's book, I thought the list might be interested to read some of the reviews in the UK press, even if we...
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DOYLE60@...
Mar 20, 2000 3:01 pm
On Bob's prurient post -- who made me look up the word "purient" -- all I can say is, "yeah, what she said." -- the "she" being Karoline in this case. Though I...
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Dormouse A Sleep
dormouse6@...
Mar 20, 2000 3:24 pm
Man does not live by works alone. There is far more to Carroll and the life he left behind, than his body of writings. Regardless of the issue, those of us...
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AnisaT@...
Mar 21, 2000 10:48 am
having just subscribed to this site i had better give a brief introduction and outline my area/s of interest. Dr John Tufail, London-based. Currently...
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Arne Moll
arnemail@...
Mar 21, 2000 3:04 pm
Hello all, Since I couldn't sleep last night, I finally decided to read over the Carroll diaries from the period 1857-1864 (Volumes 3 and 4, edited by Edward...
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Bob Spark
bspark@...
Mar 21, 2000 3:08 pm
... With an apology to all in advance: "Let's be frank and earnest. You be Frank and I'll be Earnest." Bob Spark...
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Tom Reed
treed@...
Mar 22, 2000 5:02 am
I finally got my thoughts together about Karoline Leach's new book. Well, scattered my thoughts about in a disorderly fashion is more like it, but, as I'm...
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Paul Janse
pjanse@...
Mar 22, 2000 8:49 am
... (...) ... (...) To be perfectly honest, your post reminds me of old Soviet times. On Soviet writer's conferences one obscure writer after the other used to...
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mikeindex@...
Mar 22, 2000 9:40 am
... Well, there is a brief biog on the back of the book, and others can be found on the web. According to these Karoline Leach is a theatre writer. She began ...
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AnisaT@...
Mar 22, 2000 10:02 am
Hmmm! An interesting can of worms has been opened with this query. One may start by asking who is Clarke? I know of no reputable Carroll authority by this...
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Arne Moll
arnemail@...
Mar 22, 2000 11:48 am
... [snip] ... Even if she didn't have any credentials at all (which she has): there are tens of thousands of examples of "Nobodies"; in the scientific world...
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KarolineLouise@...
Mar 22, 2000 12:55 pm
Firstly I'd like to say thank-you to all those who sprang to my defence over the 'who is this woman?' question. It was very gracefully done and very well put....
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Arne Moll
arnemail@...
Mar 22, 2000 5:11 pm
... business' ... I take it you mean that the idea of Dodgson being against it, and Mrs. Liddell not liking that, is guesswork? I somehow thought that that was...
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DOYLE60@...
Mar 22, 2000 6:18 pm
Arne, What a long post! Good God! Get some sleep!!! Seriously, it's hard to make much of mentioning Ina first when he is in fact listing them in order of...
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DOYLE60@...
Mar 22, 2000 6:18 pm
Arne, What a long post! Good God! Get some sleep!!! Seriously, it's hard to make much of mentioning Ina first when he is in fact listing them in order of...
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Tom Reed
treed@...
Mar 22, 2000 6:27 pm
... No, Mike, I have not yet had a chance to read the book (I though I had made that clear, but I guess I hadn't). I should apologize for causing such...
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AnisaT@...
Mar 22, 2000 9:57 pm
Tom, Why apologise for raising an important discussion point? And pleae do not refrain from contributing. (of course you do realise that you now owe it to ...
