"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday — but never j… - Lewis Carroll

"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday — but never jam to-day.'
'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected.
'No, it can't,' said the Queen. '
It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.'
'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing!'
'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first — '
'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!'
' — but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.'
‘I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.'
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked."

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Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898) was an English author, mathematician, Anglican clergyman, logician, and amateur photographer. His father was Charles Dodgson (archdeacon), his great-grandfather was Charles Dodgson (bishop) and his nephew was Stuart Dodgson Collingwood.

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Birth Name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Alternative Names: Charles Dodgson • Lewis Caroll • Lewis Carroll Dodgson • Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) • Rev. C. L. Dodgson • Charles L. Dodgson • Lewis Caroll Dodgson • C. L. Dodgson

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The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday — but never jam to-day.”
“It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected.
“No, it ca’n’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know

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"آلیس گفت: "من نمیتونم اینو باور کنم."
ملکه گفت: "یه بار دیگه تلاش کن. یه نفس عمیق بکش و چشماتو ببند. حالا سعی کن باور کنی."
آلیس خندید: "سعی کردن فایده ای نداره. آدم نمیتونه چیزای غیرممکن رو باور کنه."
ملکه گفت:"خب به خاطر اینه که خوب تمرین نکردی. من وقتی همسن تو بودم، هر روز نیم ساعت تمرین میکردم. بعضی وقتا میتونستم قبل از صبحانه شیش تا چیز غیرممکنو باور کنم.

Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back - Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals! Fill all the air with hungry wails - "Reward us, ere we think or write! Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails To sate the swinish appetite!"

"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"

"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday — but never jam to-day.' 'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected. 'No, it can't,' said… - Lewis Carroll

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