The Lewis Carroll Wiki page is an almost permanent zone of weird, of course, but I’m not talking about the usual kinds of “he was a pervert who should have had his balls fried”, or “he lived next door to my Nan and used to walk her dog”, kind of stuff ; I’m referring to […]
Archives for May, 2010
Completely irrelevant but…
Contrariwise’s favourite search term ever reached us today – “Alice in Wonderland garden gnomes” Bless
That thing again…
Rejecting Apology II has generated a huge amount of response in the last day, some of which we can even publish without risking nausea in our readers. Check out the ‘recent comments’ section in the sidebar. A repeated argument is that if a man wants to have sex with kids but doesn’t act on it then […]
Martin Gardner
As you’ll have seen, Martin Gardner, Renaissance man, has died, and it is a moment to mark. As he was one of the Old Guard, we obviously didn’t concur with much he said about Lewis Carroll, and neither was he comfortable with the idea of ‘the Myth’, but he was a force indeed, and probably […]
Rejecting Apology II
Well, we just received two comments (click here and here) on this blog of a kind I’m sure is nauseatingly and yawningly familiar to everyone who runs a Lewis Carroll website. We all get them by the ton, and mostly we just trash them. But these two so perfectly exemplify everything Contrariwise has been saying […]
Biographising the Famous & Dead
Thinking about this lately. Living people are complicated and multi-layered, make jokes, contradict themselves, change as they age, have different viewpoints at twenty from the ones they hold at fifty. They are almost impossible to fully understand and would take years of close study to be able to describe with any accuracy or completeness. But the […]