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Go Ask Alice – What Really Went on in Wonderland
- ableal 11y agoFilched from http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com , which tags it with "The story of Lewis Carroll: 98,721 letters sent or received, 3,000 photographs taken, a revolutionary imagination, an unknowable man..." As I gather from some biographical readings, it was possible in the London of the late XIX and early XX century to send and receive letters twice (or three times ?) a day, i.e. it would be possible to make dinner arrangements for the same day by mail, which was convenient before there was a widespread telephone system. Which is to say, many of those nearly 100k letters are probably the equivalent of an "want to go out for lunch" email/SMS/whatever.
- ableal 11y agoP.S. A piece titled 'Go Ask Alice' could use a nod to Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl89g2SwMh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl89g2SwMh4
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