Read this excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
“You're wrong THERE, at any rate,” said the Queen: “were YOU ever punished?”
“Only for faults,” said Alice.
“And you were all the better for it, I know!” the Queen said triumphantly.
“Yes, but then I HAD done the things I was punished for,” said Alice: “that makes all the difference.”
“But if you HADN'T done them,” the Queen said, “that would have been better still; better, and better, and better!” Her voice went higher with each “better,” till it got quite to a squeak at last.
Alice was just beginning to say “There's a mistake somewhere—”
Which line from the excerpt is an example of a statement that is both logical and nonsensical?
“You're wrong THERE, at any rate,” said the Queen: “were YOU ever punished?”
“And you were all the better for it, I know!” the Queen said triumphantly.
“Yes, but then I HAD done the things I was punished for,” said Alice: “that makes all the difference.”
“But if you HADN'T done them,” the Queen said, “that would have been better still; better, and better, and better!”