Mine

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

I read 200 pages about alice liddell today, and Lewis Carroll, aka Charles Dodgeson. (alice was the muse who inspired Carroll to write alice in wonderland)... there are rumors about him being a sort of victorian pedophile... his obsession with photographing little girls, and the abrupt end to his relationship with alice liddel that has remained a mystery to this day. His diary was carefully edited after his death by his family. All of the pages that fall between their first boat ride till the conflict between Dodgeson and the liddell's are carefully cut out.

Particularly interesting is the freudian analysis done by a student named Goldschmidt attending Oxford uni in the early 1900's, it's completely fabricated, but its pretty interesting none the less.

Goldschmidt published his views in a four page article in the New Oxford Outlook entitled "Alice in Wonderland Psycho-Analysed." The hyphens and capitals testify to the awkward newness of such a concept. His theory was that the opening section of Wonderland was a kind of cryptic message from Lewis Carroll's subconscious. The incidents were signs and symbols that could be decoded in the face of modern psychoanalytical understanding, to reveal the inner workings of the author's mind.

The fall down the rabbit hole was a symbol of sexual penetration, the doors surrounding the hallway represented female genitalia. In selecting the little door in preference to the big, Alice (or rather Dodgson in the guise of Alice), was choosing to copulate with a female child instead of an adult woman. Ergo, said Goldschmidt, he was a paedophile. He continued:

It is difficult to hold that his interest in children was inspired by a love of childhood in general, and in any case based on a mental rather than physical attraction, in view of two facts: that he detested little boys...and that his friendships almost invariably ended with the close of childhood. (Phillips, ed., 331)