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1669382 No.1669382 [Reply] [Original]

yfw Lewis Carol was actual Charles Dodson, a Oxford mathematician who wrote Alice in Wonderland to explain his theory of wormholes.

>> No.1669386
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1669386

>yfw a minister convinced him to published Alice in Wonderland.

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>mfw some people on /lit/ don't already know this

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>yfw Queen Victoria liked the book so much that she wrote to Carol asking for his next book, so he sent her a treatise of higher mathematics

>> No.1669391

>>1669389
Yeah, it's kind of pathetic.

>> No.1669395

>yfw he's also a pedo

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>>1669391

>YFW THAT Anon WAS BEING FACETIOUS.

>> No.1669397

>Charles Dodson
>Dodson

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>>1669396
yfw when I wasn't

>> No.1669399

>>1669396
Maybe it's just the circle of friends I have, but info on Lewis Carroll is pretty well known. If a bunch of half-illiterate drunks know more about him than a whole board dedicated to literature, then, yes that's pathetic.

>> No.1669415

>>1669382
>>1669399

Wormholes have nothing to do with literature most of you are pretentious mongrels suffering from an average life.

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>>1669399

I KNOW THAT IT IS PATHETIC THAT SOMEONE THAT BROWSES A "LITERATURE BOARD" IS NOT AWARE OF THESE FACTS, BUT THERE ARE ONLY THREE Anons WHO WERE NOT, OP AND THESE PERSONS:

>>1669386
>>1669390
>>1669395

>> No.1669417

>>1669416

WHOOPS! I MEANT FOUR.

>> No.1669421

>>1669416
are you implying that this person:
>>1669390
didn't know Carroll was a mathematician, but did know that he wrote a treatise on mathematics?

>> No.1669433 [DELETED] 

Wow really OP? An ACTUAL Dodson?

Well shit.

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>>1669421

NO.

I MEANT THAT, THAT PERSON JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT WHAT HE GREENTEXTED.

>> No.1669445

>>1669389
I did but I thought it was a joke.

>> No.1669460

the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. he was a minister. and a mathematician. he wasn't an official pedo, he just liked taking photos of little girls with no clothes on.