Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson )

• 'The horror of that moment,' the King went on, 'I shall never never forget!'
  'You will, though,' the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'
  • Chapter 1 (these were the white pieces.)

• Twas brillig and the slithy tothes,
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
  All mimsy were the borogroves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.
  • Chapter 1 (first shown in mirror writing)

• "The time has come", the Walrus said,
  "To talk of many things:
  Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—
  Of cabbages—and Kings—
  And why the Sea is boiling hot—
  And whether pigs have wings."
  • "The Walrus and the Carpenter", Chapter 4

• 'I weep for you', the Walrus said,
  'I deeply sympathise.'
  • Eighteenth verse of "Walrus and Carpenter" Chapter 4

• 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful voice, 'it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.'
  • Chapter 6

• He's an Anglo-Saxon Messager-and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
  • White King, Chapter 7

• 'Make a remark,' said the Red Queen: 'It's ridiculous to leave all conversation to the pudding!'
  • Chapter 9

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