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Tag Archives: Lewis Carroll
Revolutionary Mother Goose
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MAGA “Justice” and the Queen of Hearts
“Sentence first, verdict afterwards,” say both MAGA Republicans and Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts.
Obey Your Parents or Face the Lion
Today being Hilaire Belloc’s birthday, I share one of his darkly comic “Cautionary Tales for Children.”
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Alice, Victorian Rebel
Lewis Carroll’s Alice books use nonsense to hold off no-nonsense adult society.
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The Usefulness of “Let’s Pretend”
In “Seduced by Story,” Brooks challenges the idea that literature is meant to be useful. Instead, he says, it resembles play (and then acknowledges that play itself is useful).
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Fine Distinctions in Trumpian Grift
Tuesday While the House committee investigating Donald Trump’s January 6 coup attempt has focused its sights on the ex-president, its report has also looked at minor actors, both those who stuck with the president and those who have peeled off. One of my favorite posts over the past two years has been one applying A.E. […]
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Humpty Dumpty Cited in Trump Case
Lewis Carroll and George Orwell made an appearance in the real estate case against the Trumps.
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