“The time has come
The walrus said
To talk of many things:
Of shoes- and ships-
And sealing wax-
Of cabbages and kings-
And why the sae is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings.”

—  Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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

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