Lewis Carroll Adventure Ideas

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As the title might suggest, what ideas/adventures could you see revolving around the famous mathematician, or rather as he was better known, the writer of ‘Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll?

Considering he penned a story called Through the Looking Glass, I could almost see him accidentally glimpsing or slipping through into a parallel universe.

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Aug 17, 2020 19:59:08 GMT grinch said:

As the title might suggest, what ideas/adventures could you see revolving around the famous mathematician, or rather as he was better known, the writer of ‘Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll?

Considering he penned a story called Through the Looking Glass, I could almost see him accidentally glimpsing or slipping through into a parallel universe.

Two immediate thoughts; one is that Wonderland could be a variation on the Land of Fiction, perhaps actually inspired by Carroll's works and controlled by a 'Master' from his future, that he visits. Alternatively he could have accessed some form of simulation and been inspired by it.

The second is that Carroll/Dodgson dabbled in psychic research and the more scientific end of the occult; he joined the Society for Psychical Research early on and accepted telepathy as probably true. I wonder if this might have been from personal experience?

Then there is his interest in photography, he was more than an dabbler in the field; might a cache of 'lost' Dodgson prints turn up and produce evidence for something odd?

Or his odd and quirky inventions. Dodgson has always struck me as an easily distracted dabbler in a vast array of fields, with a tendency to obsession (I sympathise); cryptography was perhaps logical for a mathematician (was he connected to the Secret Department of the Post Office? Or Secret Decipherer to the Queen¹?) perhaps he worked with Torchwood, or a student brought something odd to Christ Church to show him? His interest in word puzzles (he could have invented Scrabble) and development of Nyctography seem related to this.
His work in what is now Symbolic Logic wasn't published in his lifetime, was it motivated by an encounter with a 'thining machine'?
And finally there's the mystery of his missing diaries....




1. There really were 'Secret Decipherers to the King' responsible for code-breaking, I refer anyone skeptical on this to the Bishop of Bath and Wells. Truth really is stranger than fiction. John Keill (protege of Isaac Newton) held the position under Elizabeth I.