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Now that the new Tim Burton Alice film is out, let’s not forget that there was a real Alice on which Lewis Carroll’s Alice was based. She looks, well, pretty formidable. (Alice Liddell.)
A photo by Carroll of Alice at a younger age. In spite of his logic and math and Snark and Alice, Carroll’s “artistic” photos of children are pretty creepy to me.
