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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
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Curiouser and curiouser
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Nah, try yahoo answers:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...8001854AAGRbw0
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A famous example of paradox is Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Dodgson ( 1832-1898). The entire book is a mirror of the "real" world" through the "looking glass" world. When Alice goes into the Looking Glass world, she has trouble getting places by heading towards them. When she walks toward a place, she finds that she is actually walking away. One of the characters advises Alice to walk away from the place she wants to go, and finds "It succeeded beautifully."
From Chapter 5:
`Only it is so very lonely here!' Alice said in a melancholy voice; and, at the thought of her loneliness, two large tears came rolling down her cheeks.
`Oh, don't go on like that!' cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. `Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come to-day. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!'
Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. `Can you keep from crying by considering things?' she asked.
`That's the way it's done,' the Queen said with great decision: `nobody can do two things at once, you know. Let's consider your age to begin with -- how old are you?'
`I'm seven and a half, exactly.'
`You needn't say "exactly",' the Queen remarked. `I can believe it without that. Now I'll give you something to believe. I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day.'
`I ca'n't believe that!' said Alice.
`Ca'n't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. `Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.'
Alice laughed. `There's no use trying,' she said `one ca'n't believe impossible things.'
`I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. `When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'
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and this one's kind of interesting:
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
