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...social and imaginative world Carroll and his young friend inhabited in and around Oxford. For instance, during the Mad Tea-Party the Dormouse tells a story about three little sisters, Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie, who live at the bottom of a treacle-well. As Martin Gardner points out in The Annotated Alice, the sisters’ names are coded references to the three Liddle...

...work. That's over now. That's a period of our development where we've got these big monotheistic religions. Now we find there's no room left. We're all on the same planet. But that's not to diss it because it's OK to have a framework and a story because that's all I've got, a framework and a story within which we can live. And we need that. And we need these meta stories....

...worked as a bar back (i.e. bartending assistant) at the Stonewall back in the day. He told me about the night of June 28, 1969, when the police raided (not such a common occurrence at the Stonewall since there were payoffs) and especially began to hassle a Puerto Rican drag queen John only knew as José. On that night there was a private party going on at the Stonewall....