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Although Ken said he hopes to raise between $5,000 to $10,000 from the sale of “Katrina’s Christmas Wish,” which features a mix of original and classic Christmas songs like “Winter Wonderland,” he said he had another objective in mind when they conceived the idea last spring...
...thing we know about the man who wrote Alice in Wonderland--he loved little girls. The uneasy question has always been, How much? Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Dodgson, was a passionate photographer as well as a writer and mathematician. At his death in 1898, he left behind hundreds of pictures, many of the "little misses" he doted on all his life. There has never been evidence that Carroll took advantage of them sexually. But over time those pictures, along with his rapturous diary entries about his prepubescent "girl-friends," have made Carroll something like the Michael Jackson...
...Samuel Johnson to John Lennon. She tells us, "The lives of the muses greatly expand our limited notions of Eros," and she includes within those notions Carroll's not quite sexual, not quite chaste infatuations. Prose devotes a chapter to Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Carroll contrived the story to entertain her on a warm afternoon in 1862, then wrote it all down because she asked...
Like Alice in Wonderland or Dorothy Gale in Oz, Chihiro is both amazed and troubled by the kingdom in which she is a captive. The bathhouse, which welcomes tired ghosts from the far reaches of the spirit world, is run by Yubaba, a wicked queen with a huge head; she seems inspired by Tenniel's drawings for the Alice books. Her dauphin is a gargantuan baby boy ("Play with me, or I'll break your arm!" he squalls to Chihiro); her enforcers are three severed heads that follow her like bowling balls with a grudge. But as in the best...
TRAIL HAPPY Hong Kong has a well-worn reputation as a shopping and dining urban wonderland. Less known is the fact that the hilly territory is also a runners' paradise. Perhaps no other major metropolis boasts as many car-free, scenic trails within easy reach of public transport. The island's verdant slopes provide ample shade and stunning vistas; the only trick is finding long and level trails that won't leave runners flattened before they reach their high...