“My name is Alice, but —“
“It’s a stupid name enough!” Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. “What does it mean?”
“Must a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully.
“Of course it must,” Humpty said with a short laugh: my name means the shape I am – and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.”
(Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 6 “Humpty Dumpty”, L.C. Complete Works, (c) 1982, Arrangement and Design Octopus Books Ltd., page 180)
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