Passage:
"'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad they've begun asking riddles--I believe I can guess that,' she added aloud.
'Do you mean that you think that you can find out the answer to it?' said the March Hare.
'Exactly so,' said Alice.
'Then you should say what you mean.' the March Hare went on.
'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know.'
'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see!'
'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, 'that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!
'You might as well say,' added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, 'that ' I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"
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Comments and Response:
Although all of them are mad (crazy) they present a very interesting argument to Alice that makes her rethink what she had said. Although all the same words are in the sentence rearranging them creates a different meaning of the sentence all together. Rearranging the words makes something sensible like "I breathe when I sleep" instead saying something ridiculous like "I sleep when I breathe" which implies that ever time you breathe you are sleeping, which doesn't make for a very interesting life.
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