Dear Sherry, I am very interested in your post and your ideas. I, for one, would be happy to move from the tedious and over-emphasised topic of Carroll's...
Actually, come to think about it, wasn't Carroll well respected? A follower of fashion? And in love with Lola? J ... From: John Tufail <tufail45@...> ...
And of course Ray Davies, so I hear, was an avid fan of Lewis Carroll. However, 'Lola'... hmm, not a road to follow too far I think! ... From: Joe Soap...
... people insist there is a myth about Carrol and why they keep on wanting to change that. So he wrote 2 good books. Yes they ARE great books but I won't...
Old Joe, The quote about "the lazy summer afternoon" originally began as a literary device employed to describe the writing of Carroll's stories by some of...
Hello Sherry, I have not read your book either, but allow to me comment briefly on the discussion. Although you may be onto to something, it still cannot be...
Hi Arne, To a very large extent what you say, although perfectly true, is irrelevant to Sherry's thesis. Let me explain. Carroll began with a story which...
Hi John, Yes, of course you're right, but what I was trying to say is that it may not be easy to distinguish which parts of the story were 'extremely crafted...
Hi Arne, I think in all literary poductions there are areas where the unconscious, subconscious and conscious merge. That is why post-structuralist literary...
... invented? ... As a freshman in university, I took the required course in literature. I hated reading the old poetry and "interpreting" it because I and ...
Not wanting to answer for Sherry, but I just thought it worth pointing out that LC's description of how AAIW came to be written is proveably inaccurate. He...
Hi Karoline, I suppose you're mostly right, but my point was that we have still these recollections not only by Carroll himself, but also by others - Alice and...
OK Sherry, I'll read your book and perhaps discuss it further then. I doubt if we are so very far apart on the "Why did he write it? Who did he write it...
Hello Arne, You have raised some critical and important questions. First of all, I would like, in response, to agree with Jim Buch that any good literature is...
Sherry, Thanks for your reply. I understand what you're saying, and you do seem aware of the many pitfalls one may encouter in interpreting literature, which...
Simply as an exercise of memory. If you were rowing upstream on a hot July day, while the guy who was rowing behind you (who obviously was amazingly fit by the...
Hi Karoline, Again, I couldn't agree more. What you're saying is also confirmed by the following comparison: Duckworth recalls: "I rowed stroke and he rowed ...
... It is not uncommon to talk to several members of a family about an experience they all had many years earlier, and to find that there are almost as many...
Hi, I don't know about Plato's Cave here, but I tend to think that I've discovered where he got part of his main idea for Alice's fall. I include a very small...
Karoline, What you say makes good sense. Duckworth is asked to remember a story about a child who dreams about falling down a rabbit hole and having...
Dear Sherry, I wonder if you have moved your ground a little. Originally you said that you would like to rebut the notion that the Alice books were inspired...
Yes, Loftus did some great work in this department. The advantage she had was that she could actually test memories for accuracy. In the case of the evolution...
Couldn't it be the other way around though? Suppose first Carroll spontaneously invents the fall through the rabbit-hole. When he is writing it down, he...
Yes, of course it could have happened that way, but because we can't separate which one came first I think it is fruitless to conjecture. For me it doesn't...
Fernando, You may be right, of course, perhaps you should discuss it with Sherry to see who's right? Perhaps you're both right! I can't help thinking of...
... She did a nice job of proving the unreliability of human memory. You are in a situation full of unreliable memory, and still insisting on making a pattern...
Jim, If anything, it wasn't me who was putting forward any theories or 'truths' about Carroll's works, but others. I was just trying to match their theories...
