RE: Lewis Carroll

As you will see... I was also introduced to Lewis Carroll while at Bard. I found this in my old Bard folder, amazingly enough it is dated 3/23/2000, which, as you know was my 21st birthday. Here is the folder with my old Bard phone extension, oh the days before cell phones.

It has a very "Alice in Wonderland" image on it... so I guess I was quite obsessed. Though I think your obsession with Lolita is not all that different, right? You can't call Carroll 'creepy and sad' without saying the same of Mr. Humbert Humbert and his darling Nymphet. Then again this is possibly the most creepy photo of Carroll with Alice...

She was quite an inspiration, this Alice Liddell, and she was also photographed much later in her life by another of my favorites, Julia Margaret Cameron, mimicking the pose by Carroll but backwards.

 And so.. what do you think of him now? Creepy? Yes, but genius as well, he did write Alice in Wonderland after all. You can't really have one without the other... obsession... creepiness... and greatness? Do they go hand in hand? Possibly that is why I may never reach greatness as I am lacking in the creepiness. I will have to consider what I can do about that.