“What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.”

Lewis Carroll

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“Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “You might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!”


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