April 25, 1856 –
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, mathematician and an Oxford professor, met a three year old girl named Alice Liddell on this date.
Charles had a penchant for making up stories to entertain the little girls he liked to photograph (many of them happened to be in the nude, at the time.) Alice had a penchant for consuming unknown (and apparently psychoactive) food, pills and liquids that she found while exploring a very large rabbit hole.
And 40 years later Oscar Wilde went to prison for the shoddy laundry services provided by the hotels he and several local young men frequented. I’m not sure that there’s a connection, I’m just pointing it out.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 