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TPS5 Deleted Session November 12, 1979 Wonderland play Michelangelo masterpiece artist

Now: the man who wrote Alice in Wonderland was, I believe, a mathematician of note in his time.

(Lewis Carroll [pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] 1832-98; English writer and mathematician; author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

(Pause.) He considered himself to be excellent at his work. It gave him a professional respectability, a feeling of worth and merit. He found it—his occupation—to be a responsible one, befitting an adult. The occupation filled many of his needs and expressed some of his abilities. In his spare time, however, for a lark, simply because he wanted to, he wrote his Alice in Wonderland—a book that is a masterpiece at many levels. What a shock when he discovered that the world was ignoring what he thought to be his important contribution to mathematics. He believed (underlined) that he should devote all of his time to his work, and could hardly forgive himself for his regrettable lapses into writing—and he was writing, after all, not even for adults, and not for young males either.

TMA Session Three August 13, 1980 magical intellect Mary rational pad

[...] We strive toward an impossible, or at least rosy, future in which we will have met all of our challenges, so that we’ll live in some sort of unreal wonderland on earth. [...]