‘Alway speak the truth–think before you speak–and write it down afterwards.’
‘I’m sure I didn’t mean–’Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
‘That’s just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Evean a joke should have some meaning–and a child’s more important than a joke, I hope….’
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1992 (Folio Society; originally 1872), p. 110.
