I knew I'd read it somewhere...
There are lots of connections between Lewis Carroll and Douglas Adams, y'
know, like there fondness for the number 42 (desparate attempt here to
recover some intellectual gravitas - doomed to failure I know...)
At 11:03 AM 8/16/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 5. Alice is talking to the White Queen
>(a-ha!):
>
>Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one *can'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."
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Graham Gardner" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:10 AM
>Subject: Re: "things" that make you go "hmmmmmmm"
>
>
>> Yee haa! I haven't had so much fun in months! Smugness rules! Breaking
>> things rules!
>>
>> As for 'not possible'...As somebody once said - I think it was in a
>Douglas
>> Adams novel - it should be a matter of principle that you do at least 2
>> impossible things before breakfast.
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Graham Gardner
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