“"I've caught a cold," the Thing replies,
"Out there upon the landing."
I turned to look in some surprise,
And there, before my very eyes,
A little Ghost was standing!”

— Lewis Carroll

Canto 1, "The Trysting"
Phantasmagoria (1869)

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

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