“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” — Lewis Carroll | V2Melody

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

A witty challenge to habitual ideas about memory and anticipation · Through the Looking-Glass, dialogue

Memory
Time

About Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

27 January 1832–14 January 1898

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who became immortal under the name Lewis Carroll, was born on 27 January 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire, England, and died on 14 January 1898 at Guildford, Surrey. He was a Victorian clergyman, Oxford mathematician, logician, lecturer, photographer, inventor, letter writer, satirist, and author…

More by Lewis Carroll

Poems by Lewis Carroll

More remarks by Lewis Carroll

“Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.”

A playful defence of meaning over mere verbal ornament · Through the Looking-Glass, dialogue

Art
Truth

“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

A comically direct formulation of order and completeness · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, dialogue

Time
Truth

“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”

Suggesting that meaning may be discovered even in apparent nonsense · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, dialogue

Beauty
Truth