“Who's the Knight-Mayor?" I cried. Instead
Of answering my question,
"Well, if you don't know THAT," he said,
"Either you never go to bed,
Or you've a grand digestion!”

—  Lewis Carroll

Canto 5, "Byckerment"
Phantasmagoria (1869)

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