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“Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today.”

Lewis Carroll · Fictional character · White Queen

Source
Through the Looking-Glass
Date
1871
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Fictional character · White Queen
Meaning

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The rule is comic because its promise is permanently deferred: reward exists on every day except the one a person is actually living.

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Through the Looking-Glass; the White Queen explains the backwards rule governing jam.

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Fictional character · White Queen. Through the Looking-Glass; the White Queen explains the backwards rule governing jam. v4.93 stores the local voice separately from the bibliographic work author.

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