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Thread #162290 Message #3862666
Posted By: DMcG
24-Jun-17 - 06:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Labour wants to confiscate property
Subject: RE: BS: Labour wants to confiscate property
I agree neither of us can know for certain. That is precisely why it is a good idea not to make statements as if you do. Even the site you referenced which says that some people were addicts, like Wilkie Collins, but for Carroll they are careful to say "possible", "some say" and other phrases to be cautious
As you say, there are lots of possible explanations. I read on that site that drugs a possible explaination for Alive changing in size, the long neck and so forth. But it is equally possible that had been to a hall of distorting mirrors at a fair, and actually seen Alice Liddell with a long neck.
A possibility. Not a fact. So it is wiser to avoid suggesribg things as fact. Poetic licence won't do.
Anyway, no need for me to take this further.