“‘Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
“‘No, no!’ said the Queen. ‘Sentence first—verdict afterwards.’
“‘Stuff and nonsense!’ said Alice loudly. ‘The idea of having the sentence first!’
“‘Hold your tongue!’ said the Queen, turning purple....”
T. “GEDANKENEXPERIMENTE.”
T. L. G., p. 61: “Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
“‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the [White] 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.’”