Lewis Carroll

"We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known, we have only to follow the thread of the heroic path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world." Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

I came across this quote and thought that it was relevant regarding research, we are searching for things that are sometimes outside of our capabilities to find, but we end up searching for it, and find something that we didn't know about ourselves. At the moment I am researching Lewis Carroll, and totally shattering the previous awe-inspiring, praise-worthy Alice in Wonderland, as the writer is a drug- taking paedophile (taking nude pictures of young girls). I mean I know that through this research a lot of writers took drugs and were paedophilic; in the sense that we would class them as that now, but its just weird that in those days it was just hidden. I mean I suppose it is hidden now, until someone finds out about it, but it can be tracked down so much easier what with the government locating where we all are, and our buying habits, where we go on holiday etc. People knew about Carroll's love for and towards children, but rather than facing it and dealing with it as an issue, some of the evidence was destroyed (out of 13 diaries 4 were burned and those four would have shed light on the relationships with Alice -Carroll's muse to Alice in Wonderland- and we would not have to be speculating about what was in these volumes) but there you go, thats research for you, like the labyrinth, sometimes we can come to a dead end, but other times things are opened up for us to see and to be lead by.