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In Linux Mint, the default terminal (command line program) loads a random quote whenever you start it up. Today's was

"...The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'!"

"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested.

"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is, 'The Aged Aged Man.'"

"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called'?" Alice corrected herself.

"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways and Means': but that's only what it is called you know!"

"Well, what is the song then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.

"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is 'A-sitting on a Gate': and the tune's my own invention."

-- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass


The Alice books have so much more content when you read them as an adult.

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Date: 29 Jul 2009 02:24 am (UTC)
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Now I find them quite psychedelic, which is weird to read out loud to a five-year-old.

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