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...grew older, Dodgson learned the art of finding or creating "spirits of peace" that alleviated earthly wretchedness. Alice in Wonderland is the bright vision by which he is known, but it is a mere fragment of the whole-a solitary chip off the imagination of a man who built wonderlands in every spare moment. First in his fancy came the new and magic world of photography, and only the large shadow thrown by Lewis Carroll has prevented the Rev. Mr. Dodgson from being famed as one of the greatest of early photographers. He was also fascinated by anagrams, cipher writing...
...planning an $11 million combination fair and amusement park for Los Angeles. To be called Disneyland, the project will cover 152 acres, will show the world of the past, the world of the future, and the. world of fantasy, with sets from such Disney movies as Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio and Cinderella. Rides for the kiddies will include a 40 ft. rocket, supposedly giving the sensation of space travel...
Despite his accomplishments, John Hampden-author, anti-war leader, and father of three-is a dull man. He struts about with quips like, "Of course people mean what they say, but do they always say what they mean?" Not all his lines are from Alice in Wonderland, but most are just as familiar. The dialogues between Hampden and Skillingworth, headmaster of the boys' school, intended to be bitingly acid, are only loud...
Feeling of a Conqueror. Looking into Freud's childhood is like looking at psychoanalysis studying its reflection in a mirror. All the principal Freudian units are, quite "unconsciously," making their first grand march through the streets of Wonderland-with lusty Private Libido (infantile sexuality) beating his big drum, and General Repression sternly rebuking Major Oedipus (for jealousy of father coupled with excessive love of mother). And yet an air of medieval superstition mingles with this up-to-date atmosphere. Sigmund was "born in a caul," i.e., with part of his prenatal envelope still swaddling him, and an old woman...
...single copies of newspapers). Among the treasures: eight copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays; the original articles placed before King John at Runnymede in 1215; the menu for the coronation banquet of Henry IV (1399); the manuscript of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, inscribed as "a Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day." There is also a fine collection of early Bibles, including the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus, for which the museum paid Soviet Russia ?100,000 (then about...