Carroll

I've elsewhere averred that I don't think or, really, care much about pen names, but I just mentioned Doublets so I guess I'll go with a riff on Lewis Carroll. The way I remember his real first name is by noting that Carroll is like Carl which is like Charles, and that his next begins with L, much like Lewis does; I then muse that perhaps his name is Charles Louis, or Lyman, but that's not right, nor that, and eventually I sort everything out and it all comes back to me. And then I think about Carroll O'Connor, whom I used to confuse with Carol Burnett; might we also note that Frances Hodgson Burnett had a son named Vivian, which introduced me to that as a masculine name? I could go on. That is what this blog is for.