“What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.”

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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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Originally said in English.

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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

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Through the Looking-Glass

1872

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

1968

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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

1869

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A Tangled Tale

1881

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