Making Sense out of Nonsense “ ‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise’ “(Carroll 89). Carroll here conveys the message to not try to show yourself deeper than what your surface suggests. Did he follow in the footsteps of that philosophy in his renowned work Alice’…showed first 75 words of 1350 total…

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