It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X (1865)
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- When
- From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865.
- Why
- Alice explains to the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle why she will only tell her adventures from that morning.
What it means
Alice's logic is Wonderland logic and also simply true. We change, and yesterday's self is not quite us.
It is a light way of letting old versions of yourself go.
Our reading of the passage cited above, not a quotation from a commentary.
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