From Richard Bristow
Feedback was perplexed over a General Studies school examination question
which asked the examinee to explain how Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat could
disappear leaving only his grin
(26 June).
Questions relating to the thoughts of
a polymath such as Carroll seem eminently suitable for a General Studies paper,
but I fear that you are barking up the wrong tree if you expect physics to
explain this phenomenon. I was once told that Carroll suffered from migraines
and that the Cat’s disappearance was a representation of his progressive loss of
vision during such an attack.
Dartford, Kent
