Chapter 7
The Hatter's lesson that 'I mean what I say' is not the same as 'I say what I mean' — a foundational moment in linguistic philosophy parodied for children.
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From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Carroll, a mathematician and logician, structures Wonderland as a sustained inquiry into how language and logic can collapse or invert.
Chapter 9
'Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves' — the Duchess inverting a proverb to perfect Carrollian effect.
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