“One winter night, at half past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,
I had come home, too late to dine”

— Lewis Carroll

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Phantasmagoria (1869)

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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

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“One winter night, at half past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,
I had come home, too late to dine”