Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 January 1832
CityDaresbury, England
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'
I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) / That English is what you speak!
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Speak in French when you can't think of English for a thing-turn out your toes when you walk-and remember who you are!
How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale!
''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
One, two! One, two! and through and through / The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!/ He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back.
The horror of that moment,"" the King went on, ""I shall never, never forget!"" ""You will, though,"" the Queen said, ""if you don't make a memorandum of it
He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / There were no birds to fly.
He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.