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Essay "Lewis Carroll" • 1939
For some reason, we know not what, his childhood was sharply severed. It lodged in him whole and entire. He could not disperse it.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The passage describes a childhood cut off abruptly for reasons the narrator cannot explain. Instead of becoming a distant, dispersed memory, it remains lodged within the person as a whole. The image suggests an unresolved past that continues to occupy the adult.
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