18th Century Cultural Mandate.

[Lewis Carroll,
author of 
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]

Big people 

never think 

themselves

insufficient,

too young

or 

grown-up

to 

dream,

believe 

and 

live out

big.

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Did you know

that

the author of 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,

Lewis Carroll,

was a 

shy man

who was

handicapped by a

stammer?

Carroll was also ordained

as a clergyman

[quite like a pastor 

in today's term],

he rarely preached.

Due to his

self-consciousness,

he enjoyed the

company of children

-

most likely because

they are so much less

self-righteous and critical 

than adults tend to be.

The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland,

the brilliant tale

that still marvels us

today,

was inspired by 

one of his 

favourite young friends,

Alice.

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Carroll's day job 

was a 

mathematics lecturer.

Creativity 

isn't exclusive 

to people

who

 appreciate the arts.

It could be

 a gift in 

people who love numbers

too.

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This 18th century talent's

isn't really 

Lewis Carroll.

He was 

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

His playfulness 

must have 

made him 

translate his two first names

back into English from Latin

in reversing their order

to arrive at this 

pseudonym 

-

Lewis Carroll

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Easter, 1876,

in a letter 

to his fans,

Carroll affectionately wrote,

'Dear Child,

...For

 I do not believe

God means us thus

to 

divide life into 

two halves

- 

to wear a grave face on 

Sunday,

and to think it 

out-of-place

to even so much as 

mention Him on a 

week-day.

Do you think

He cares to see

only kneeling figures,

and to hear

only tones of prayer

-

and that 

He does not 

also 

love to see the

lambs leaping in the 

sunlight,

and to 

hear also 

the 

merry voices of the

children,

as they 

roll among the hay?

Surely 

their innocent laughter 

is

 as sweet 

in His ears 

as the grandest anthem

that ever rolled up 

from the

'dim religious light'

of some

 solemn cathedral?

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