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Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The Man behind the Wonderland – The Life and Work of the Legendary Author Lewis Carroll

  • Daria Khlevnyukhas quoted8 years ago
    (6) This person is perfectly good.
  • Daria Khlevnyukhas quoted8 years ago
    But I had better add that I do not want to deal with any such difficulties, unless they tend to affect life. Speculative difficulties which do not affect conduct, and which come into collision with any of the principles which I intend to state as axioms, lie outside the scope of my book. These axioms are:—
    (1) Human conduct is capable of being right, and of being wrong.
    (2) I possess Free-Will, and am able to choose between right and wrong.
    (3) I have in some cases chosen wrong.
    (4) I am responsible for choosing wrong.
    (5) I am responsible to a person.
  • Daria Khlevnyukhas quoted8 years ago
    Some people, I know, make a practice of looking into vol. iii. first, just to see how the story ends; and perhaps it is as well just to know that all ends happily—that the much persecuted lovers do marry after all, that he is proved to be quite innocent of the murder, that the wicked cousin is completely foiled in his plot, and gets the punishment he deserves, and that the rich uncle in India (Qu. Why in India ? Ans. Because, somehow, uncles never can get rich anywhere else) dies at exactly the right moment—before taking the trouble to read vol i
  • Daria Khlevnyukhas quoted8 years ago
    The couplet for St. John’s College ran as follows:—
    “They must have a bevel
    To keep them so LEVEL.”
    The allusion is to the beautiful
  • Daria Khlevnyukhas quoted8 years ago
    When a word has been found, whose last consonants represent the number required, the best plan is to put it as the last word of a rhymed couplet, so that, whatever other words in it are forgotten, the rhyme will secure the only really important word.
  • Daria Khlevnyukhas quoted8 years ago
    He spent the day according to a prescribed routine, which usually included a long walk into the country, very often alone, but sometimes with another Don, or perhaps, if the walk was not to be as long as usual, with some little girl-friend at his side. When he had a companion with him, he would talk the whole time, telling delightful stories, or explaining some new logical problem; if he was alone, he used to think out his books, as probably many another author has done and will do, in the course of a lonely walk.
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