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To: Borges
Martin Gardner's the Annotated Alice goes into detail about his weird traits.. He worshipped little girls and detested little boys, he would write letters to them and kissed his childfriends, he would hang out on the beach with a pocketful of pins so he could pinup girls skirts so they could wade in the water..Even Alice Liddell who some say he was obsessed with, the mother has sensed and discouraged Carroll's attention even burning all letters from Carroll.. I understand this is all circumstantial ,but it is a good case.Guilty or not guilty every person can make up there own mind...
53 posted on 03/05/2010 5:01:24 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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To: GSP.FAN

I didn’t say he was a stand up guy just that the standards about this sort of thing were different back then. He certainly had his quirks. In any case that doesn’t diminish the work at this late date. If you exclude questionable people from the past then you’d have to throw out most of Western Culture.


57 posted on 03/05/2010 5:14:07 PM PST by Borges
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