Posted on 02/13/2019 7:59:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
SPOT ON!
In no book, paper, thesis, T.V., documentary has Lewis Carrol EVER been put forth as Jack The Ripper and I should know, because I’ve read or seen ALL of these!
I'm not sure where I saw it, but there was supposedly a theory that Carroll was the Ripper. At any rate, I wasn't endorsing it--merely showing how one can read anything they want into children's books.
Professor Dodgson must have been a strange one. A math freak egghead who liked to take photos of naked young girls (apparently without ever abusing or harming them in any way) who was simultaneously a minor order clergyman in the Anglican Church. He may have even been doctrinally orthodox (unlike L. Frank Baum, the [Republican] anti-chrstian new-ager proto-feminist).
Nineteenth Century American politics were a hoot!
The Wizard of Oz? Totally gay, at least the movie version.
That’s funny because I always thought YOU were Jack the Ripper.
I can see the geniuses are out tonight!
I was looking at one really wonderful photo of Alice Lidell - she looked like Louise Brooks in all her come hither beauty. That is enough to send the 21st century puritans into overdrive. Remember the movie with Ian Holm?
yes! (great post)
I am a "RIPPEROLOGIST" and in the more than 1/2 a century of of my interest/study of this topic, I have NEVER, NOT ONCE, NOT FROM BRIT NOR AMERICAN, OR EVEN EUROPEAN SOURCES seen nor heard of this abjectly STUPID suggestion!
First of all, Charles Dodgson was a somewhat eccentric academic who did NOT venture into the slums of London.
Secondly he was in his very late 50s-60s when the Ripper murders took place.
Thirdly, he has less than NO training nor education is surgery, anatomy, nor was he in the Military, and he wasn't ever a butcher!
Lastly, he had a slight, non-athletic body, was deaf in one ear, suffered a severe injury to one of his knees in middle age, and walked with some difficulty. Ergo, overpowering and slicing up a hefty, younger female, and then rapidly fleeing the scene of the crime is just beyond absurd!
One can now read a phone book, evidently, and find "racism", "misogyny","WHITE NATIONALISM", and/or whatever else micro and macro "triggers" idiotic little snowflakes! The there was some moronic prof, who in the 1950s saw homo-eroticism and a cross racial love affair in HUCKLEBERRY FINN.
Dodgson was probably a case of arrested development and asexual. He took a LOT of pictures of children, but also of his famous Pre-Raphaelite artist and literary friends.
What the bleeding heel does ANY of this have to do with 19th century American politics?
Yes, the "geniuses" have crawled out from under a lot of rocks, to post on this thread. LOL
See my post #68.
"DREAMCHILD"? Yes, I remember it.
His photos are gorgeous.
Yes, they are...he was a true artist when it comes to early photography!
I got caught up in them last night. He had a rare talent but so many of those English photographers of the time were good. And English children have always been immensely photogenic. I have several myself that I took during a Christmas parade in Haworth around 2000.
Also he was good friends with quite few of the Pre-Raphaelite artists.
Have you seen his drawings? He did a few for the Alice books, but they weren't used.
Yes, many English children were/are beautiful; I agree. I love all of the very old photos of children; wealthy, upper middle class, and the extremely poor. The ones of the very poor ones are haunting.
I heart Eric idle. Until chapter 22 of his autobiography where he goes off on trump. Still love his comedy.
But Ol Yella...
Kidnapping is a serious offense!
Now, son, effen you gonna correct my syntactical and grammatical errors along with mah split infinitives, we’s gonna open up a shootin’ war. Just a fair warnin’ from your lovin’ maw.
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