“The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth”

—  Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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

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