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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 gifted photographer and a talented mathematician.
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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 gifted photographer and a talented mathematician.
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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."  
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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."  
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Many of the poems in the Alice books are sly parodies of overly-solemn poems that were popular in Victorian times, but almost forgotten now. Carroll's parodies have, in fact, survived better than the poems they were parodying. Isaac Watts'
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Many of the poems in the Alice books are sly [[parody|parodies]] of overly-solemn poems that were popular in Victorian times, but almost forgotten now. Carroll's parodies have, in fact, survived better than the poems they were parodying. Isaac Watts'
    
&nbsp;&nbsp;How doth the little busy Bee<br>
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;How doth the little busy Bee<br>
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