::glomps Kat:: I'm not mad :3 It's just that with the release of American McGee's Alice and then the showing of the new Alice in Wonderland, I've been hearing a lot of people talkin bad bout Mr. Dodgson and it's getting on my nerves ^^; He was not a druggie, he was not a pedophile, he was nothing anyone says he is, he was just insane (but in a good way =p). And he liked making children happy. My best explanation for the weirdness of his stories is that a lot of them were told on the spot to a group of children that he'd take out on outings as a favor to his friend (who was their father I think). They would go boating and such and he'd make up the stories as they went along. The only reason they got written down was because the girl Alice was based on kept bugging him until he did. ^^; A lot of references to himself and to Alice's friends and family had to be taken out though... (the Dodo mentioned in the beginning of the book is supposed to be Carroll/Dodgson himself :3)

I'm not sure I agree with you on the character and body of work thing...it's something I think about a lot actually. ^^; I mean, what if you had this person who wrote beautiful, moving stories, but he also happened to be a mass murderer? I'm just not sure I can subscribe to the 'love the art not the artist' theory because artistic expression is such an extension of whoever created the story/artwork/whatever. I can understand if the person was just merely self-absorbed and grumpy though (like I am =p)... ^^;