NURSERY RHYME for today

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*with thanks to- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll ,'Through the looking Glass' 1871 excerpt - characters Alice & of nursery rhyme fame Humpty-Dumpty

NURSERY RHYME for today Dumpty one day met Alice in a looking glass scene..... 'When I use a word ' Humpty to this lass did say 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less'— ...an embryo politician in training I guess! 'Can a word mean so many different things' observed dear Alice in reply 'which is to be master — that's all.' riposted H D with a sigh, in a comment still so true of 'body politic' today ! ...'what is better ' ....truth... or little white lie'

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Mark Toney

Date: 7/24/2024 9:32:00 AM

A brilliant pairing, Brian—H D and Alice. “Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.” —Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass