{"id":333,"date":"2010-08-27T23:38:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T23:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carrollmyth.wordpress.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2010-08-27T23:38:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T23:38:56","slug":"wiki-weird-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/wiki-weird-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"wiki-weird II"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been fatally distracted from this blog by our Other Lives, but someone (thank you JedO) just told us about a little something\u00a0 on Wiki we had to pass on.<\/p>\n

Of course\u00a0 Lewis Carroll’s\u00a0 Wikipedia \u00a0 page is prone to outbursts of Tourette’s at the best of times, with whole sections being replaced with pithy legends such as ‘he was a wanker<\/em>‘, and\u00a0 ‘his family were all donuts<\/em>‘ ,\u00a0 but here’s a recent addition<\/a> a little more literate that doesn’t seem <\/em>to be aiming at Absurdism, but still has me slightly bewildered:<\/p>\n

Edward Wakeling, editor of the 10-volume “Lewis Carroll’s Diaries” has always maintained that there is no “myth” and Jenny Woolf, while agreeing that Carroll’s image has been comprehensively misrepresented in the past, believes that this can be attributed to Carroll’s own behaviour and in particular his tendency to self-caricature in later life<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay.\u00a0 Couple of things to ponder –<\/p>\n

1. Edward Wakeling does not<\/em> maintain there is\u00a0 ‘no myth’, in fact he\u00a0 has a link on his own\u00a0 website<\/a> entitled ‘Myths About Lewis Carroll’<\/em>, with a\u00a0 long list of\u00a0 said myths, many of which are identical with those we examine.<\/p>\n

2. Anyone have any idea\u00a0 what the difference is between a life that is mythic and one that has been ‘comprehensively misrepresented’? Or what “this can be attributed to Carroll’s own behaviour and in particular his tendency to self-caricature in later life<\/strong>” <\/strong>actually means<\/em>?\u00a0 That\u00a0 poor Carroll was responsible for all the lies and nonsense said about him\u00a0 for a hundred years and\u00a0 more after his death? And that<\/em> means, somehow (how?) that there’s no myth? Just a ‘comprehensive misrepresentation’ that is all Carroll’s own fault?<\/p>\n

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this semantic gibberish?<\/p>\n

We have no idea who wrote this, but we think Mr W and Ms W should probably be informed in case they want to make changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been fatally distracted from this blog by our Other Lives, but someone (thank you JedO) just told us about a little something\u00a0 on Wiki we had to pass on. Of course\u00a0 Lewis Carroll’s\u00a0 Wikipedia \u00a0 page is prone to outbursts of Tourette’s at the best of times, with whole sections being replaced with pithy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,11,1,14],"tags":[21,22,25,26,41],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-madness","category-the-carroll-myth","category-uncategorized","category-websites","tag-carroll-myth","tag-edward-wakeling","tag-jenny-woolf","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17WIo-5n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}