I read Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass many years ago from a facsimile edition of the first ones ever published with the original artwork. I remember liking the Disney version as a kid. So it was with great sadness I learned of his probably paedophiliac tendency towards the daughters of his friend who inspired the story. I have always wondered about people who love the books and have to do a quick check to make sure the reasons they enjoy the story and its history and why they admire Lewis Carroll.<\/p>\n
Abuse of children has been and still is, with us across the world. It is different from a man like Ernest Christopher Dowson who seem to have genuinely fallen n love with a 12 year old, written her poetry and gone back other as a woman to ask her to marry him. In the craziness that is our hormones I can understand that.<\/p>\n
But only loving children is more than an illness. It is a brutality and a sinister perversion. But, as with all art, you cannot separate the life from the art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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