No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.’

Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can’t quite follow it as you say it.

– 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

But, said Alice, the world has absolutely no sens, who’s stopping us from inventing one ?

Ici, voyez-vous, il faut courir aussi fort qu’on le peut simplement pour rester au même endroit. Si on veut se rendre ailleurs, il faut courir encore au moins deux fois plus vite.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end …