In Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking Glass, the white knight describes getting stuck inside his own oversize helmet:
“‘It took hours and hours to get me out. I was as fast as–as lightning, you know.’
“‘But that’s a different kind of fastness,’ Alice objected.
“The Knight shook his head. ‘It was all kinds of fastness with me, I can assure you!'”
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Steve Dunham:
October 4th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
In Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking Glass, the white knight describes getting stuck inside his own oversize helmet:
“‘It took hours and hours to get me out. I was as fast as–as lightning, you know.’
“‘But that’s a different kind of fastness,’ Alice objected.
“The Knight shook his head. ‘It was all kinds of fastness with me, I can assure you!'”