For my eleventh birthday, or perhaps my twelfth, I received the entire Lewis Carroll anthology. All his fiction works, and several of his mathematical publications, in one huge book. I loved this book so much that the covers have unfortunately ripped loose and it's now held together by tape. As a kid, I tried to do all the maths problems - they are mostly algebra-based and I could attempt a fair few, even at that age. I had no idea they were meant for university level students. And I read and re-read all the fiction, including the poetry, and I don't even like poetry.

I was Alice in Wonderland for a primary school dress-up day (if I ever find a photo, I'll post one). My Masters thesis frontispiece was a quote from "Through the Looking Glass" with a picture from "The Hunting of the Snark". I studied the Red Queen principle in Biology. I learned chess from "Through the Looking Glass". I liked the idea of "six impossible things" as a webpage name, but had no idea how many Googlers are looking for impossible things to do. Begone!

Carroll's works and related illustrations are now out of copyright - all you see here is from the wonderful Project Gutenberg. For posterity, I give you the quote involving "six impossible things" ...

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said: 'one CAN'T believe impossible things.'
'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'

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