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Subject: Six impossible things
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Date: Thu, 6-Oct-83 23:48:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  6 23:48:00 1983
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From:  Hans Moravec <HPM@S1-A>

>From "Through the Looking Glass (and what Alice found there)" by Lewis Carroll
(aka Charles Dodgson), copyright 1896, chapter 5 (Wool and Water) about
sixth page:

conversation between Alice and the White Queen

"... Let's consider your age to begin with -- how old are you? '
  I'm seven and a half, exactly.
  You needn't say 'exactly', the Queen remarked.  I can believe it
without that.  Now I'll give you something to believe.  I'm just
one hundred and one, five months and a day.
  I can't believe that! said Alice.
  Can't you?  the Queen said in a pitying tone.  Try again: draw a
long breath and shut your eyes.
  Alice laughed.  There's no use trying, she said:  one can't believe
impossible things.
  I daresay you havn't had much practice, said the Queen.  When I was
your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day.  Why, sometimes I've
believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!
There goes the shawl again!"