"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less." "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'" "I don't know what you mean by 'glory'," Alice said. The picture, of course, is the classic illustration by Sir John Tenniel. whomever!), a passage without which the Humpty Dumpty Theory of Language would still be called the Cratylus Theory of Language. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, for whom Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym, was an Oxford-educated mathematician and logician, an early pioneer of photography, and an archetypal English Eccentric.ěelow is perhaps my favourite passage by Carroll (Dodson.
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