XPost: rec.arts.books, rec.arts.books.childrens, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:35:24 UTC, andrew  wrote:   
      
   >... an article by Peter Coveney from   
   > which I quote:   
   >   
   > 'Dodgson's obsession with little girls was both sexual and sexually   
   > morbid. His own insistence on the purity of his interest has perhaps a   
   > telling, even a morbid undertone.'   
   >   
   > 'Alice in Wonderland' Lewis Carroll, Edited by Donald J. Gray, A   
   > Norton Critical Edition, 2nd Edition. page 334.   
   >   
   > I am not surprised that in light of these concerns that his book was   
   > not selected.   
      
   No, I'm not extremely surprised, either: the current morbid fascination,   
   which perhaps is a morbidly sexual fascination, with the thought of a   
   possibility of abuse of children makes it plausible.   
      
   Still, weren't there librarians or something involved in this? They tend,   
   on the left side of the Pond anyway, to pride themselves on not submitting   
   to whatever the current hysteria may be.   
      
      
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