Was Lewis Carroll on drugs when he wrote the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
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tawana mcallister
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I think that actively being on drugs would have hindered the writing process, if not just for the actual physical act. I think that maybe they could be memories...but not active hallucinations.
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There is no proof or evidence or even cause to think that Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) took drugs. Alice in Wonderland was originally a nonsense story told to Alice Liddell (a friend's daughter) and her friends whilst on a boat trip. He later wrote the story down and was encouraged to publish it.
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yes. That film is craaazy
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Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) was a mathematician by training and, more significantly, an expert in logic. Only when you're a truly logical person are you able to notice the rules that you can then break. This, I'd say, was the main source of his nonsense.
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His sniffing of glue helped him devise the cheshire cat for sure
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Carroll was on medication for severe pain. In those days, not knowing the consequences, people took raw opium for pain. This, coupled with a vivid imagination and a fantastic mathematical brain, probably produced the imagery in Alice. Look aslo at the near contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge, another opium chewer, who produced Xanadu after dreaming it...
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Have you seen this movie?!?! You see alot of crazy shit on acid. thats all i'm saying
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All evidence points to yes. And personally, I like to believe so. It makes it a lot more fun.
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Possibly....in those days laudanum and or opium were common remedies for what ails you. Or...perhaps he just was blessed with the most marvellous imigination!
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Almost certainly not, because the original version of Wonderland was told as a story while rowing a boat on a summer's afternoon. If he had been out of his head, it would have been noticed and commented on. Not to say he never took what we call drugs - as Singwell has said, various forms of opium were in common use at the time - but I strongly doubt that he was significantly under the influence when he invented Alice.
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Absolutely buzzing her tits off...
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Praise for the person who gave kudos to Mr. Carroll's mathematics and logic. A professor of Abnormal Psychology once gave a lecture during which he expressed his opinion that a person who was considered outside the norm of society could indeed possess a gift that would bless or energize anyone with whom she/he came into contact. My mother prohibited me from watching this movie while I was young(she thought it would influence me to use drugs)--well, it was the first thing I bought when I got my first apartment--that and a real Christmas tree. I cannot count the times this dreamy feature has sung me into a blissful slumber. Thank you, Mr. Carroll.
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Yes!!! An the mad hatter in the movie is so crazy because back in those days hat makers used murcery in the firming of hats which makes them go all crazy with murcery poinsioning.. i always thought that was interesting!
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Lewis Carroll, or Charles Dodgson, outlined the story of what we know as Alice in Wonderland, on a rowing trip with the Dean of his college's three female children, Alice, Lorina, and Edith Liddell. He was in training to become an Anglican Priest and it seems very unlikely he would have used opium, which was very popular at the time, every 4 out of 5 households used opium. He loved children and the story he told was nonsensical, perhaps an attempt to escape the Victorian era of children's stories with morals. Dodgson suffered from migraines and possible epileptic episodes in 1880 and thereafter, but that was long after the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I think there is no possible way he was on opium. The rumors that Dodgson was on acid are absolutely ridiculous. LSD or "Acid" wasn't even invented until 1938, and Dodgson died in 1898.
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The truth is no one knows for sure, it doesn't really matter. Either way he was a brilliant writer.
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No. He was "on target" with using Alice in Wonderland as a tool to explain some of the most fasinating concepts of physics there are, in a language everyone could understand, the language of make believe.
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I read he was into morphine.
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Nope. He was a pedophile
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My son thinks so but I agree with mojothesly.
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I think of all the people I have known who were into drugs, and I look at all of their accomplishments, and I have to conclude that Carroll was using native imagination alone in the "Alice" stories.
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Well, I think that no one can actually be able to truelly answer this... I doubt he'd have documented that he was using opium (probably coz they didn't consider it strange as lots of people where doing it, and they probably didn't know - like sigarettes when they first came out - that it was bad for you). BUT it certainly does seem drug inspired, maybe he wasn't on drugs when he told the story, but he might have been when he first came up with it..
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Yes he was on mad drugs. That guy did LSD every day. That is what the book is, one of his crazy trips.
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