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In 1998 the centennial of the death of Carroll is completed, knocked down by an implacable pneumonia, and its life continues being as enigmatic as Alicia's matter... and of a continuation but tired, through the mirror. They have not been knitted few conjectures about their inclination for the girls in general and the Liddell in particular. The suspicion of repressed paidofilia constantly appears in such speculations, especially because
Carroll, excellent fond photographer also, it used to depict dressed girls in a thousand ways and even naked. It supposes it to him in love, to the 32 years, of the 11 of Alicia. the suspicion -o mistrust - he/she leans on in facts, as always. Rather, in interpretations of the facts, as always. |
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The first one is the bachelorhood of Carroll that maintained until the death; one argues that its friendship with girls was kind of a substitution of the matrimonial life and that until he/she thought of marrying Alicia. The actress Ellen Terry, great friend, was ambiguous lapidariamente on the topic: I Knew the dear Dodgson during many years. And he/she had me the whole affection that the one could feel for a 10 year-old grown-up."
Another fact is not the explained rupture with -o of - the family Liddell in 1863. Of the newspaper that Carroll takes from 1855 until its death they lack four volumes lost in a moving that you/they cover the period previous to the rupture. In the 9 remaining, donated to the British Museum, there is you paginate shaved; it misses mainly on the corresponding to the 27 June of 1863, 29 the days of the relationship change with the Liddell. It
will have been work of the family of Carroll that during several days food the chimney of their house burning hundreds of you paginate unpublished of the died author. It seemed that the unworthy habit of correcting to the dead is universal and extended in the time. For I finish, the pictures of girls' nudes in that Carroll insisted up to 1880; by the way, also portrait to celebrities like Tennyson, Ellen Terry, Dante Gabriel Rosseti and other
famous adults in clothes of the time. |
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Such you see those facts they admit another explanation. Their familiarity with the girls, for example: Carroll had seven sisters and three siblings, and when dying its parents position of the family it was made in brother's bigger male quality. He/she stuttered, but -surprisingly - when he/she spoke with children or it invented them vocally stories, the defect disappeared
as misled in a momentary return to childhoods with father and mother |
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I score in their newspaper: All that that at some time love a boy he/she has really known the reverence that he/she feels before a fresh soul on which has not even fallen the shade of the sin." Carroll would have suffered acutely, a lot but that other, the lost of the innocence with which he/she pays himself the I traffic from the childhood to the youth. That would explain the irruptions of
nostalgia that startle Alicia's magic in the Country of the Marvels, and maybe he/she would explain the same story, their side of malicious protest against the mutilations that imposes the boys the world of the big ones.
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The nostalgia also invades I -believe - its nudes of girls, as if Carroll has wanted to fix forever in a picture the virginity. Those pictures attempt -like if it was possible - to divorce the purity of the desire, roasted by force of tortures. It was a luck for the that didn't publish them massively in the Victorian England, although perhaps abandonment that he/she
practices fed up with the gossips villagers. But of one century later went to Jack worse Sturges in the republic of the United States; in 1990 I publish an album of children's pictures and adolescents -especially girls - taken in nudists' from France beaches and USA; el FBI le allano el estudio en San Francisco y lo llevo ante un gran jurado bajo la acusación de incurrir en pornografía infantil. It was acquitted. In fact, Sturges frequents a
similar territory to that of Carroll: it photographs the juvenile beauty from a place where it buried the desire. Without nostalgias, that if. |
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The love of Lewis Carroll for the girls was contained sexual passion or pure affection, as the one it did seek?. Maybe it can be an an answer, hardly a, in Silvia's introduction and it Polishes, that story for big that I publish in 1889 and some estimated the biggest failure in the English literature of the XIX century." He/she says there that it has imagined a physical state in which a human being
could sometimes take conscience of what happens in the world of the fairies, thanks to a real transfer of the immaterial essence of that world." It surely reached that physical state inventing fantastic stories for listeners with innocence, capable as the, of receiving such an immaterial essence." Not serious strange: it passes many readers of Alicia in the Country of the Marvels. Although they are not so innocent. |