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- From: TANAKA Tomoyuki <tanaka@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: a quote from "Alice"
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- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 20:51:01 GMT
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- "I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the
- moral of that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' --
- or, if you'd like it put more simply --
- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than
- what it might appear to others that what you
- were or might have been was not otherwise than
- what you had been would have appeared to them to
- be otherwise.'"
- -- Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland"
-
- First time I read this, I thought this (`Never imagine ...
- otherwise.') was a complex logical expression that reduces to
- `Be what you would seem to be'. Then I thought otherwise. Or
- does it realy reduce to that? Seems like it, but I'm not sure.
-
- Martin Gardner's "Annotated Alice" had no comments on this.
-
- TT
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