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From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll

That's the effect of living backwards," the Queen said kindly: "it
always makes one a little giddy at first---"
"Living backwards!" Alice repeated in great astonishment.  "I never
heard of such a thing!"
"---but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works
both ways."
"I'm sure _mine_ only works one way," Alice remarked.  "I can't
remember things before they happen."
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen
remarked.
		-- Through the Looking-Glass
		   Chapter v

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