It's like having a Garfield with murderous tendancies

[secondlina]

Lewis Carroll's birthday has passed. He'd be darn old today.

Most people know I love fairy tales and fantasy stories. Alice is up there among my favorites. Yet, I always get the "Urgh, you liked Lewis Carroll, he was totally a pedophile" attitude once in a while. It's true, he might have been one. There's evidence that states that as much as there is evidence to the contrary. I like to think that if he was one, he was a contained one and did not take action.

It sucks that people judge you for liking something because of a writer's opinions (like "he's racist" or "He's sexist" or anything else). I my view, a work of art can be judged independently from the creator to an extent. There's plenty of people I don't like very much who write really well or draw really well.

It kinda brings in the question of how much of an artist can you find in a work and how much of an artist must you consider when looking at work. Can a work really live beyond the artist or is the artist part of the work?

-Isa

Comments

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

SAY NO, LINK!!!!

You have the right to like who you want to like. Hell, a LOT of well-know writers had major issues! Poe, Byron ect... That doesn't diminish the fact that they're good writers and they have good stories.