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-`He's dreaming now,' said Tweedledee: `and what do you think he's dreaming about?' -Alice said `Nobody can guess that.' -`Why, about you!' Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. `And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?' -`Where I am now, of course,' said Alice.
-`Not you!' Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. `You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a
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-`I don't know what you mean by "glory,"' Alice said. -Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"' -`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,"' Alice objected. -`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.' -`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.' -`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master - - that's all.' |
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`I don't understand you,' said Alice. `It's dreadfully confusing!'
-`That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: `it always makes one a little giddy at first -- -`Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. `I never heard of such a thing!' -` -- but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.' -`I'm sure mine only works one way.' Alice remarked. `I can't remember things before they happen.' -`It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked. -`What sort of things do you remember best?' Alice ventured to ask. -`Oh, things that happened the week after next,' the Queen replied in a careless tone. |
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