The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down...she found herself falling down what appeared to be a very deep...
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keith
keith@...
Jun 1, 2002 1:47 pm
CLD's rooms in Oxford were 51.75 degrees North and 1.26 degrees west. Where's this going though? Compared to the distance through the earth any elevation of...
. With the older methods the image ... development but ... faster but ... Thank you very much, keith, it did help . But your comment above raised another...
Still on the topic of Victorian photography... Another thing Robert was talking about last night was the delightful ingredients of wet collodion photography....
Jenny, without knowing what context Roger Taylor was alluding to it is difficult to answer your query without being wrong! All the known examples of CLD's...
... CLD's rooms in Oxford were 51.75 degrees North and 1.26 degrees west. Where's this going though? *********** That's what I was thinking, Keith. If the...
Probably New Zealand - 42 degrees? Kate ... From: knaveofarts To: lewiscarroll@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 12:47 PM Subject: [lewiscarroll] Re:...
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keith
keith@...
Jun 2, 2002 5:16 am
You would end up in the sea a few hundred miles from the appropriately named Antipodes Island south west of New Zealand! Keith ... From: "knaveofarts"...
In a message dated 6/2/02 1:50:07 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... I think it would be latitude 178.74 degrees east, longditude 51.75 degrees south. Silly question...
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keith
keith@...
Jun 2, 2002 10:31 am
Mike, Alice was seven so the story relates to the period between May 1859 and November 1859. She's seven and a half in the second story, which is why I say...
"Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However,...
... No need to "assume" it -- that's how Victorians used the word "signify"! Remember the anecdote about Dr Spooner's walking into a stationery shop and...
Why wouldn't she reach 20? I think the answer is to be found, not in mathematics, but in psychology. In many cases of amnesia, the subject forgets details of...
"London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome"... In English, each capital has one less letter. Interestingly, this is also the same for...
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Ruth Berman
berma005@...
Jun 3, 2002 1:42 pm
... Wakeling and Roger Taylor gave a joint lecture on Victorian photography and LC's photos in particular. Anyone who lives within reach of London and didn't...
... Yeah but hang on a moment - 'Alice' is fictional! Even if she's based on AL she isn't actually HER, so let's not get fact and fiction too messed up here. ...
<< So, why doesn't the blurring happen with PP (or any other children's book) when it does with 'Alice'? >> Maybe because Peter Llewellyn Davies didn't fly...
Why did Carroll believe poor children wouldn't like the *Alice* books? ___ Would you kindly tell Mr. Phipson (who has written to me, and is a friend of your...
Yes and no. The fictional Alice is clearly *not* Alice Liddell! Would Alice Liddell be sitting with her sister on the bank on May 4? No, she'd be home,...
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Ruth Berman
berma005@...
Jun 3, 2002 3:41 pm
... AL she isn't actually HER, so let's not get fact and fiction too messed up here. Actually here is an interesting question - why is 'Alice' so closely ...
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AnisaT@...
Jun 3, 2002 3:43 pm
In a message dated 03/06/2002 15:41:09 GMT Daylight Time, mikeindex@... writes: << So, why doesn't the blurring happen with PP (or any other children's...
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Ruth Berman
berma005@...
Jun 3, 2002 3:49 pm
... I don't remember the title of the relevant book on Victorian children's books I read sometime back (will see if I can figure out which it was), but this...
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AnisaT@...
Jun 3, 2002 3:51 pm
In a message dated 03/06/2002 15:58:56 GMT Daylight Time, DOYLE60@... writes: << Though Alice Liddell probably fell down rabbits holes just as ...
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keith
keith@...
Jun 3, 2002 4:00 pm
Ruth, Port Meadows near Godstow affords a good view of the spires of Oxford. It's also the places where the eel nets can be seen as in father William. Keith ...
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keith
keith@...
Jun 3, 2002 4:10 pm
Mike, I know of the idea that Alice Liddell isn't 'Alice' but I just don't buy into it! Whatever ideas may be put forward, AL herself called it her adventures...
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keith
keith@...
Jun 3, 2002 4:13 pm
Matt, because Alice is a class ridden book? Poor children would not associate themselves with the upper class goings on? CLD was a snob so I guess he was as...
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keith
keith@...
Jun 3, 2002 4:18 pm
John, I agree with Matt, Alice is an ordinary girl. Things happen to Alice but she doesn't control them. She doesn't know how to go through a looking glass,...
... books?< There were several assumptions involved in the belief (and it ... literature ... About 20 years ago it was considered rather desirable that ...
