I like to listen to my iPhone all the time.
I download Garrison Keeler's Writer's Almanac every day and I love the Writer's Almanac.
I like to listen to Garrison Keeler.
So one day I hear this.
In 1884, the Reverend Charles L. Dodgson, whom we know as Lewis Carroll, wrote to the
father of 10-year-old Mae Mylam, asking to, quote, continue the friendship so suddenly
begun with his daughter.
Mae Mylam, that's my last name, Mylam.
Lewis Carroll had met the girl a few days before.
She was vacationing with her family in a seaside resort.
They walked around on the beach and they talked together.
Her parents were okay with that and Lewis Carroll saw the 10-year-old Mae almost every
day from mid-August on, took her for a trip to London, took her to the theater, wrote
about her in his diary and wrote letters to her and he wrote to Mae Mylam, thank you
very much for the peaches.
They were delicious.
Eating one was almost as nice as kissing you.
She was not the first 10-year-old girl that Lewis Carroll had befriended.
It was 10-year-old Alice Little, whom he met and told stories to about a girl named Alice
who fell down a rabbit hole.
Well, fortunately, my cousin's come to the United States.
He's going to be in Santa Barbara and I'm going to interview him.
He's a family historian.
He's got to know the answer.
Wouldn't that be cool?
Alice in Wonderland.
My who knows relative, maybe, was a big influence on Alice in Wonderland.
Well, we'll find out.
She was one of the young girls.
Who attracted the attention of Lewis Carroll, Dodson, who wove into his fantasy stories
of Alice in Wonderland, obviously connotations of our great aunt, Mae, which is fascinating.
This is authenticated, we know letters exist, and Mae was allowed to stay with this Oxford
Don in pretty innocent way, as were some of the other Alice prototypes.
But there's Carroll, this extraordinary book, which I believe explains the rather extraordinary
reasoning of adults to a child, or a child is questioning the adult way of thinking.
Kenneth Graham does this as well, the Wind in the Willow's Man, in some of his short
stories.
He talks about Olympians and how difficult it is, how unreasonable our adults to a child's
mind, and some of the weird and strange things which happen unexpectedly in life, even if
it seems to be rather dreamlike or turned around behind the looking glasses.
So Mae Mylum has her place in helping with these wonderful stories, which are absolute
classics, well classics, in their own right, and get filmed from time to time.
And I believe that Dodlemore and Peter Cook were in a film which was in black and white.
If you knew time as well as I do, you wouldn't talk about it, it's him.
I don't know what you mean.
Of course you don't, I do say, you've never even spoken to time.
I'm directed by Mila, Jonathan Mila, we've got plenty of pictures to send here, for where
we look better.
Who gets beansier than article.
Why I got my tickets.
WOOW settle down.
What are you doing to me?
Why are you sitting there?
What's wrong with you?
This is bad.
Level reserve for seniors.
I'm sorry.
Cheerio.
Bye.
Bye.
Three minutes.
I see.
Look at this.
Level reserve
for seniors.
When your Romanian club's happening
Then I'll make myself aokrat.
Now I'm saying..
Level reserve..
Level reserve.
Level reserve...
Level reserve..
Level reserve..
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