My image of Alice, formed by looking so many times at the original Tenniel illustrations, at first seemed miles away from the girl-woman cast in Tim Burton's new movie. But when I went back to this amazing photo of Lewis Carroll's young friend, Alice Liddell, I have to concede that maybe, after all, Rev. Dodgson could have imagined someone like her appearing in the sequel. He did, after all, write that doing mental calculations while going to sleep often saved him from impure thoughts. As if tgo emphasize the point, in a letter, Dodgson remarked in a letter (andthis is true, not a joke) that, "I am fond of children, except boys."
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
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Movie night?
My image of Alice, formed by looking so many times at the original Tenniel illustrations, at first seemed miles away from the girl-woman cast in Tim Burton's new movie. But when I went back to this amazing photo of Lewis Carroll's young friend, Alice Liddell, I have to concede that maybe, after all, Rev. Dodgson could have imagined someone like her appearing in the sequel. He did, after all, write that doing mental calculations while going to sleep often saved him from impure thoughts. As if tgo emphasize the point, in a letter, Dodgson remarked in a letter (andthis is true, not a joke) that, "I am fond of children, except boys."
Kate,
Movie night sounds great! We should sneak some Victorian drinks in with us. I bet E knows some!
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