“When logic and proportion
Have fallen softly dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head! Feed your head!"”

—  Grace Slick

White Rabbit (1965)

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American musician, writer and painter 1939

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