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In a letter to Isabel Standen, a young friend of his, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has some wise advice to impart on how to deal with changing conditions:
I can quite understand, and much sympathise with, what you say of your feeling lonely, and not what you can honestly call ‘happy’. Now I am going to give you a bit of philosophy about that – my own experience is that every new form of life we try is, just at first, irksome rather than pleasant. My first day or two at the sea is a little depressing; I miss the Christ Church interests, and haven’t taken up the threads of interest here; and, just in the same way, my first day or two, when I…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2019