“So long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.

“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

“Who in the world am I?” Ah, that’s the great puzzle!

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.

“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.

—Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)