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Live the best possible life.

? Life is like a blank sheet of paper, with graffiti on it, all by yourself. Living the best possible life is the highest mission of everyone who comes to this world. Perhaps it was with this attitude that lewis carroll, an English writer, overcame many obstacles in life calmly and lived the best of himself. So he is not only a famous writer, but also a mathematician, logician, priest, painter and photographer.

? Carol, whose original name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born into a prominent family in Daresbury, Cheshire, England. Carol's father is very talented in mathematics. He got a double degree in mathematics and theology and became a priest. His mother, on the other hand, is gentle and amiable, and attaches great importance to her children's preschool education. Carol * * * has 1 brothers and sisters. He is the third and the first boy in the family.

? Because of stuttering inherited in the family since childhood, and a high fever made him deaf in one ear, Carol didn't go to primary school, but has been educated at home. He inherited his father's mathematical talent and showed great intelligence since he was a child. Moreover, it is said that under the influence of her mother, Carol had finished Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress at the age of seven, and also read maria edgeworth's Early Education and Hannah Moore's The Shepherd of Salisbury Grassland.

? At the age of 12, Carol began to attend middle school in a private school, and he was very happy here. Mel, the principal of the school, once said to his parents, "His eloquence and the ingenious conception and wording of Latin prose are enough to prove that he is an extraordinary genius. I have never seen a child of the same age with more prospects than him." However, the good times did not last long. Two years later, Carol transferred to the key middle school "Ruby School". The diary shows that he lives here like a year because his stuttering is always laughed at and bullied by his classmates. In addition, he didn't win prizes in classics, theology and mathematics, so he seldom went home.

? At the age of 17, a bad cough permanently damaged Carol's lungs. But at the beginning, this did not hinder his desire to enter Oxford University. In 1851, at the age of 19, Carol was admitted to the Christian Church College of Oxford University. When he graduated, he successfully stayed in school and taught mathematics for 26 years because of his excellent performance in mathematics.

? After middle age, the illness of the lungs made Carol's body move asymmetrically from left to right, and migraine and epilepsy often troubled him. Moreover, he is deaf in one ear, stutters when he speaks, and sometimes he can't even say his name clearly. In the eyes of friends, Mr. Carroll has good facial features, blue eyes and a height of about 1.8 meters, which is slightly thin; His shoulders are high and low, and his mouth is crooked when he smiles; His body looks stiff, and his walking posture is mechanical, which makes the whole person look somewhat strange. However, these have not made Carol a loner. Because of her good ability of "talking and learning", she is very popular in social activities. He was a good friend with Rossetti, a great British painter at that time, and had a good relationship with several other great painters such as Hutt, Millay and Hughes.

? In the field of mathematics, Carol mainly studies geometry, linear algebra and mathematical logic, and has written more than a dozen monographs. In 1868, he published the Virginia encryption law he invented. In addition, he has many practical inventions in mathematics. For example, "chess for travel", a tablet that can write in the dark, double-sided tape that can be used to stick letters, and so on.

? In photography, Carol is a pioneer of that era. In 185, Archie perfected wet collodion photography. In 1856, the second year of Carol's teaching, he bought a set of expensive photographic equipment. In his early days, his main subject was a little girl named Alice Riddle. Later, he also photographed a group of celebrities, some of whom still sound like thunder, including oil painters Hutt, Millay, scientist Faraday, poets Tennyson and Luo Saidi, and Prince Leopold. At the annual meeting of the Royal Photographic Society of London 15 years ago, Carol's works were exhibited every year. He published 1 photos in his life, which was very remarkable at that time.

In painting, Carol has also made great achievements. In 185, Carol left Ruby School to prepare for the entrance examination of Oxford University at home. During this period, Carol drew an excellent comic magazine-Umbrella in the Parish alone. Later, the manuscript of Alice's Underground Adventures was also illustrated by him. In 1863, when Alice in Wonderland was officially published, he tried to make his own illustrations, but because it took too much time, he finally decided to entrust this task to a more professional painter. In 28, a sketch of a little girl drawn by Carol sold for 4,8 pounds.

Besides, Carol loves to play. He plays with numbers and logic, games, words and semantics, and tries to play to the extreme no matter what he plays. At that time, puppet shows, magic tricks, chess, croquet, backgammon and billiards were all popular with him.

? As for the success of literary creation, Carol is like a mystery, as if he was born as a writer. He doesn't care about external reactions and comments, but keeps writing in line with his personal interests. At the age of 14, he compiled the first family magazine on holiday for his sisters to read. Then, the magazine illustrated by Carol herself came out. In his spare time as a teacher, he often wrote poems and novels, but he said casually, "I don't think I have anything really worth publishing." In 1856, he first published a romantic poem "Loneliness" under the pseudonym of "lewis carroll", which became famous in one fell swoop.

? If this success means that he has officially started the road of literary creation, then the "Alice series" of children's literature means the peak of his creation. It's hard to believe why the works of "Alice Series" come from.

? In 1856, the new dean of Christian Church College, Riddle, arrived, and Carol and the Riddle family quickly established friendship. He often plays with the Riddle's three daughters, Lorina, Edith and Alice, and also helps one of Alice's brothers with math. Carol likes children very much, especially Alice, the second daughter of the Riddle family. She is Carol's favorite little girl.

On July 4th, 1862, in Mr. Carroll's memory, it was a "golden afternoon". This afternoon, a group of five people paddled the boat up the Thames and traveled from Oxford to Gosto. Among the five people on board, there are two adults and three children. One is Carol, and the other is his friend Robinson Dakovos. Three children are the three sisters of the Riddle family. The three sisters were so noisy in the boat that they felt bored. In order to amuse little Alice, Carol told them that he would tell them a story.

? The undulating ripples in the river shone with little golden light, and the afternoon was long and distant because of the story in the rabbit hole. Mr. Carroll was tired of speaking, and tried to stop several times, but he continued at the entreaties of the three little girls in the Riddle family. Everyone on the boat seems to be in another world, which wobbles and wobbles with the boat and golden sunshine.

That night, before saying goodbye, Little Alice repeatedly asked Carol to write down the story. Carol hesitated and later agreed. Back that evening, Carol wrote 18, words of Alice's Adventures in the Underground World overnight, and personally illustrated it. On Christmas Day in 1862, he gave this special gift to his little girl. Later, Mr. Robinson recalled that day and asked Carol how the story came from. Carol replied, "We walked all the way, and I made it up all the way."

On July 4th, 1863, in order to commemorate the water outing, Carol revised and expanded the manuscript and published it under the current title Alice in Wonderland. After this fairy tale was printed, it was quickly welcomed by children with magical fantasy, witty humor and majestic poetry. Later, Carol wrote the companion piece Alice's Adventures in the Mirror. Over the past 15 years, "Alice Series" works have been translated into more than 8 languages, spread all over the world and become treasures of children's literature.

? There are infinite possibilities in life, and Carol lived the best possibility. He became not only a mathematician and logician, but also a famous photographer, painter and writer. For the sake of his little girl, he created great children's literature works that could fascinate the world. After more than 15 years, many people would rather stay in the "rabbit hole" created by Carol and never come out. This may be the "best possibility" in Carol's life.