Maybe it's just me, but I find this a hilarious footnote in the heavily annotated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that I'm now reading: "The Liddell children had a particularly distinguished drawing-master at this time, John Ruskin. . . ." What an incredibly bizarre way to describe Ruskin, "a particularly distinguished drawing-master?" Seriously? Later on, the footnote says, "He taught Alice drawing in the deanery, lending her paintings of Turner to copy. . .," and I found that hilarious too, but that really is probably just me. The thing is, most of my exposure to Ruskin was in my summer course back in high school on Victorian literature, where our big joke was that Ruskin suffered from profound lust for Turner because he just would not shut up in any of his work about how great Turner was. . . I suppose by this principle I myself suffer with profound lust for Byron, Shelley, Henry James, DWJ, Jenna Moran, Bowie and Kevin Barnes?
I also seriously had no idea that the Liddell in Alice Liddell was the same as the Liddell in Liddell-Scott.
Obviously, these are the kinds of things I am going to blog about.
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