The saddest character in Lewis Carroll’s repertoire of tragi-comic characters is the Mock-Turtle. While his friend the Gryphon carries his working-class aura abroad with him, making him feel himself  to be the equal of tyrannical Queens, the Mock-Turtle tries to blame his education for never rising from the great unwashed because ‘Washing’ was an ‘extra’ … More My favourite subject was ‘Fainting in Coils’, of course!