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Notes

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Translator’s note: The first four sentences of this paragraph are rhyming proverbs from the oral tradition. Since their elements figure in later sections of the story, they are translated literally. The first one might otherwise be rendered, “Out of bed, sleepyhead.”

2

The answers to Alice’s conundrums: One.

3

Ten.

4

They went that day to the Bank of England. A stood in front of it, while B went round and stood behind it.

(Problems and answers from A Tangled Tale, Lewis Carroll, London, 1885.)

Alice was invented by a logician and therefore comes from the world of nonsense, that is, from the world of non-sense—the opposite of common sense; this world is constructed by logical deduction and is created by language, although language shivers into abstractions within it.