Saturday, July 01, 2006

I've had a curiosity about the more sordid aspects of Lewis Carroll's life, and I researched the subject on the 'net. Found a very interesting article in Wikepedia, which says that Dodgeson (Carroll's real name) was misunderstood and that his fondness for little girls was blown out of proportion, that Victorian mores were different from present times. There's an article from 1998 in the NY Times that I wanted to read but I was unwilling to pay four bucks for it.

I'm not one to exonerate child molesters. I mean, c'mon, they're fucking freaks and should be exterminated, okay? (My therapist said that even castration doesn't diminish their compulsions.) But from reading the article, I can easily see how a theory becomes so entrenched over time that it becomes the "truth."

One of those things I suppose we shall never know.

In other news, I bought the Sims2 game for my Mac and the fucking thing doesn't work. When I went to the Apple Store last Wednesday to inquire about why Stubbs the Zombie doesn't work, the "Genius" explained that the game was incompatible with the Intel chip or some such shit and that a patch needs to be developed. Must be the same with the Sims2. Looks like Apple has taken a page out of Microsoft's book, releasing products before they're finished.

posted by Newpeep, N.D. (neurotic depressive) @ 3:51 PM

1 Comments:

At 1:26 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey - I know this is an old post, but I'm just getting caught up. Actually, your therapist is wrong - castration does diminish their compulsions. One guy who is a resident of where I work is a sexual predator - they give him depo provera to chemically castrate him, and he's much more well-behaved now.

 

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