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* {{Neologism}}: Coined the words "chortle", "portmanteau", "snark", and several others.
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* {{Neologism}}: Coined the words "chortle", "portmanteau", "portmanteau" (in its modern sense; it originally meant a suitcase), "snark", and several others.
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* AnachronismStew: "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" is full of it, with both characters mentioning various things that didn't exist in ancient Greece.
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->''"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."''
Real name Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), he was the author of ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and its sequel, ''[[Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There]]''. He also wrote "Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}" and "Literature/TheHuntingOfTheSnark." Also ''Literature/SylvieAndBruno'' and more lesser-known works.
Real name Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), he was the author of ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and its sequel, ''[[Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There]]''. He also wrote "Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}" and "Literature/TheHuntingOfTheSnark." Also ''Literature/SylvieAndBruno'' and more lesser-known works.
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-->-- '''The White Queen''', from ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass''
Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
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* DoubleMeaning: [[https://inkblotsandicebergs.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/square-poem-if-we-both-fall-in-love/ A love poem often attributed to Carroll]] suggests his skill with matrix algebra, as its constructed in "square poem" format where it can be read both horizontally and vertically like a symmetric matrix.
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* LastSecondPhotoFailure: In "Hiawatha's Photographing" all the posed portraits Hiawatha takes are failures, but the first one in particular is an example of this trope, when its subject makes a slight movement at exactly the wrong time.
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* LastSecondPhotoFailure: In "Hiawatha's Photographing" Photographing", all the posed portraits Hiawatha takes are failures, but the first one in particular is an example of this trope, when its subject makes a slight movement at exactly the wrong time.
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* YouAreFat: The narrator of the poem "Size and Tears" complains that he's being stalked by a rival who delights in mocking his stout figure.
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* GratuitousIambicPentameter: "Hiawatha's Photographing" is a parody of Creator/HenryWadsworthLongfellow's narrative poem "The Song of Hiawatha". It's preceded by an introduction which is written as normal text, but stealthily follows the same meter as both poems (trochaic tetrameter).
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* DoubleMeaning: [[https://inkblotsandicebergs.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/square-poem-if-we-both-fall-in-love/ A love poem often attributed to Carroll]] suggests his skill with matrix algebra, as its constructed in "square poem" format where it can be read both horizontally and vertically like a symmetric matrix.
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* {{Neologism}}: Coined the words "chortle", "portmanteu", "snark", and several others.
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**(1864) and its sequel, ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass'' (1871), sequel to ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''(1871)
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** ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass''
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* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: He held the view that the single apostrophe in the words "can't", "shan't" and "won't" weren't doing the job of indicating ''all'' the missing letters, so he wrote them "ca'n't", "sha'n't" and "wo'n't".
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* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: He held the view that the single apostrophe in the words "can't", "shan't" and "won't" weren't doing the job of indicating ''all'' the missing letters, so he wrote them "ca'n't", "sha'n't" and "wo'n't". An interesting example of the trope, in that he was following the rules of punctuation ''more'' consistently and logically than normal, and would probably have accused the normal method of perpetrating the wanton cruelty.
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* HeAlsoDid: Aside from his work in mathematics, he was also an Anglican deacon and a well-known pioneer of photography.
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* FriendToAllChildren: He loved to be around and entertain children, especially the real Alice Liddell, though the myths surrounding his life tend to overstate this. He had many adult friends as well.
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** Slightly averted in that he was very much more fond of small girls than of small boys.
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* FriendToAllChildren: He loved to be around and entertain children, especially the real Alice Liddell, though the myths surrounding his life tend to overstate this. He had many adult friends as well.
** Slightly avertedwell. Downplayed in that he was very much more fond of small girls than of small boys.
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* LiteralGenie: A popular myth is that when ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' was published at the same time as a book of his on mathematical theory, UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria was so charmed by ''Alice'' that she requested Carroll to send her a copy of his next book immediately after it is published. A short time later he sent her "An Elementary Treatise on Determinants : With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry", hot off the presses. This alas, is not true.
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* LiteralGenie: A popular myth is that when ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' was published at the same time as a book of his on mathematical theory, UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria was so charmed by ''Alice'' that she requested Carroll to send her a copy of his next book immediately after it is published. A short time later he sent her "An Elementary Treatise on Determinants : Determinants: With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry", hot off the presses. This alas, is not true.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: A popular myth is that when ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' was published at the same time as a book of his on mathematical theory, UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria was so charmed by ''Alice'' that she requested Carroll produce another book like his latest. A short time later he sent her a new math textbook, hot off the presses. When Carroll heard the story, he said that he wished it had happened.
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-->''Postscript to '''Symbolic Logic''': I take this opportunity of giving what publicity I can to my contradiction of a silly story, which has been going the round of the papers, about my having presented certain books to Her Majesty the Queen. It is so constantly repeated, and is such absolute fiction, that I think it worth while to state, once for all, that it is utterly false in every particular: nothing even resembling it has occurred.''
-->''Postscript to '''Symbolic Logic''': I take this opportunity of giving what publicity I can to my contradiction of a silly story, which has been going the round of the papers, about my having presented certain books to Her Majesty the Queen. It is so constantly repeated, and is such absolute fiction, that I think it worth while to state, once for all, that it is utterly false in every particular: nothing even resembling it has occurred.''
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* SillySpook: The nameless ghost in [[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/651/651-h/651-h.htm "Phantasmagoria"]] is a bit of a goof with a taste for awful puns. He also mooches food and drink off the narrator.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: A popular myth is that when ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' was published at the same time as a book of his on mathematical theory, QueenVictoria UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria was so charmed by ''Alice'' that she requested Carroll produce another book like his latest. A short time later he sent her a new math textbook, hot off the presses. When Carroll heard the story, he said that he wished it had happened.
