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The line suggests that distance itself is not the main concern, because there is another place to reach beyond the one being left behind. It also implies patience and faith that a different destination exists on the far side. The reply treats the present crossing as only one part of a larger passage.
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About Lewis Carroll
English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English writer, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. He is best known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both central works of Victorian literature. His writing is marked by wordplay, logic, and fantasy, and he is also remembered for the poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark. Those works are often described as literary nonsense, and some of the odd logic in Alice reflects his published interests in mathematical logic.
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Books by Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1869
Through the Looking-Glass
1872
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
1968
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
1869
A Tangled Tale
1881