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A month ago I posted a super confusing quote from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I’m now reading Through the Looking-Glass and came across this funny gem yesterday:

‘I’m sure I’ll take you with pleasure!’ the Queen said. ‘Twopence a week, and jam every other day.’

Alice couldn’t help laughing, as she said, ‘I don’t want you to hire ME–and I don’t care for jam.’

‘It’s very good jam,’ said the Queen.

‘Well, I don’t want any TO-DAY, at any rate.’

‘You couldn’t have it if you DID want it,’ the Queen said. ‘The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday–but never jam to-day.’

‘It MUST come sometimes to “jam to-day,”‘ Alice objected.

‘No, it can’t,’ said the Queen. ‘It’s jam every OTHER day: to-day isn’t any OTHER day, you know.’

‘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–’

- Through the Looking Glass, Chapter V, Wool and Water

I really have nothing to say about this, other than it made me laugh… like this: hahaha!

I discovered something interesting today while looking for a quote from C.S. Lewis’ book The Screwtape Letters. The quote is about “Nothing.” What I discovered is that it’s really hard to find a quote when all you can remember is the name of the book and the word “nothing.” Or perhaps nothing has been put up on all these intertubes about that quote. Perhaps I’ll type it out myself when I have the book with me.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
- John Quincy Adams