XPost: rec.arts.books, rec.arts.books.childrens, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: miniter@attglobalZZ.net   
      
   Dan Drake wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Sad, isn't it.  At worst, it would seem that Lewis Carroll had sexual urges for   
   young girls that he sublimated into great works of art and so avoided acting on   
   them sexually.  At best, he was a man with a speech disorder who was in   
   consequence shy with adults, who found refuge in the world of children and   
   fantasy.   
      
   No one questions the makers of blood and gore horror movies.  They may be   
   sublimating their desires to commit mayhem on the audience.   
      
      
   Francis A. Miniter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)