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This past weekend saw Oxford’s annual Alice’s Day take place, featuring lots of Alice in Wonderland themed events and exhibitions. With that in mind, today we bring you two videos of Simon Winchester talking about Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) and both his love of photography and his relationship with Alice Liddell and her family. You can read an excerpt from his book, The Alice Behind Wonderland, here.
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Simon Winchester is the author of the bestselling books The Surgeon of Crowthorne, The Meaning of Everything, The Map that Changed the World, Krakatoa, Atlantic, and The Man Who Loved China. In recognition of his accomplished body of work, he was awarded the OBE in 2006. He lives in Massachusettes and in the Western Isles of Scotland.
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Jeez,
I keep getting sidetracked lately....Seems like the Internet has a lot to do with it....Lots of lights, colors, and sounds.....Distracting.
Very Distracting. Sorta like this thing was, when I was growing up.
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The New Republic has an article about David Sedaris. The author fact-checked his pieces and found out some of them were exaggerated for comic effect.
Well, duh!
Full disclosure: I saw him in Portland one time and laughed so hard that I actually thought I might die.
You can read more here.
People tell stories because they are better – more organized, deeper, make more sense – than real life. Maybe there's something wrong with me, but I don't have a problem with Sedaris. I do have a problem with people like James Frey who have autobiographical tales of woe that turn out to be largely made up. There's probably something wrong with me that I don't have the same problem with Sedaris.
What do you think?
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Nicely rendered... cool texture, too!
thanks FrankenBARRY.
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