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'''Lewis Carroll''' was the pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), best known for authoring ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' and its sequel, ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' (which contains the poem ''[[Jabberwocky]].'') Carroll also wrote the long nonsense poem, ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]].'' In addition to writing these stories and poems under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson also was a mathematician and photographer. many of his photographs are romanticised images of pre-pubescent girls, clothed and naked, leading to suspicions about Dodgson's sexual inclinations.
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'''Lewis Carroll''' was the pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), best known for authoring ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' and its sequel, ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' (which contains the poem ''[[Jabberwocky]].'') Carroll also wrote the long nonsense poem, ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]].'' In addition to writing these stories and poems under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson also was a mathematician and photographer.  
    
Carroll, a math teacher, wrote a play about geometry called ''Euclid and His Modern Rivals''.  
 
Carroll, a math teacher, wrote a play about geometry called ''Euclid and His Modern Rivals''.  
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Lewis Carroll's works are full of puns and jokes based on [[logic]]. Computer programmers are fond of quoting the King's directions to the White Rabbit, who asks "Where shall I begin, your Majesty" and is told "Begin at the beginning, and go on until you come to the end: then stop."  
 
Lewis Carroll's works are full of puns and jokes based on [[logic]]. Computer programmers are fond of quoting the King's directions to the White Rabbit, who asks "Where shall I begin, your Majesty" and is told "Begin at the beginning, and go on until you come to the end: then stop."  
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