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Quotation from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

“‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.’”

Lewis Carroll (spoken by Tweedledee, reciting)

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter IV (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Lewis Carroll

From The Walrus and the Carpenter, the ballad Tweedledee recites; the Walrus chats with the young Oysters before he and the Carpenter eat them all.

Citation: "‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.’" — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter IV (Project Gutenberg text). (id through-the-looking-glass-q3)

Portrait: Alice-entering-looking-glass-house-vertical-alignment, John Tenniel, Public domain.

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