Word: dodgson
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...little girls, the man who became immortal as Lewis Carroll wrote these lines for his brother and sister (aged seven and five) at a rectory at Croft. During the years that followed, as he grew up to become a clergyman, a teacher and a mathematician, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson kept his alter ego, Carroll, well hidden from disapproving adult eyes. Carroll the storyteller preferred to save his voice for only the very young. In this slim volume, readers will have a chance to judge Lewis Carroll's earliest efforts to please his young listeners. All 16 poems...
...Diaries of Lewis Carroll [TIME, March 29]: please, either tell me where I can buy a frictionless pulley, or give me the answer to the Rev. Charles Dodgson's puzzle.* NELL COUFAL Omaha ¶As the Rev. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) supplied no answer to his own puzzle, see below for one reader's solution...
...long as the monkey merely hung onto the rope, both the monkey and the equivalent weight would be at rest: the resultant of forces exerted on the rope would be zero . . . But since we have a frictionless pulley, and since the problem was posed by that eminent mathematician, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), there would doubtless occur what is known in scientific circles as the Cheshire Cat Effect: both the monkey and the weight would disappear into the substance of this marvelous pulley-monkey tail last-and never be seen again. Q.E.D. ("Damned Queer Effect...
Psychologists have had a lot to say about this Dodgsonian kink. What the Diaries make clear is that immature girls were, to Dodgson, the nearest thing on earth to angelic "spirits of peace." It is easy to imagine his indignation when, on taking a great fancy to little Alice Liddell and her sisters (daughters of the dean of his own college, Christ Church), he was accused by gossips of chasing "the governess. Miss Prickett...
Bachelor's Bliss. Dodgson cultivated little girls as methodically as he worked out mathematical puzzles. Sometimes he met them in the homes of friends, often he picked them up in parks and on beaches. If he liked them, he went straight to their mothers, bowed politely and asked permission to take them for walks or to pantomimes. Then he began "taming" them, i.e., drawing them into intimate friendship. His Diaries record the "taming" of scores of little girls, a few of whom created the rare "whitestone" days in the life of the visionary mathematician. But he seems to have...