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quinta-feira, agosto 30, 2007

The master 

I don't know what you mean by "glory", Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't - till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'

But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

Through the looking glass, Lewis Carroll

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