And Thus They Give The Time, That Nature Meant
For Peaceful Sleep And Meditative Snores,
To Ceaseless Din And Mindless Merriment
And Waste Of Shoes And Floors.
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant
For peaceful sleep and meditative snores,
To ceaseless din and mindless merriment
And waste of shoes and floors.
-- Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-98),
-- English writer, mathematician
-- Four Riddles, no. 1 (1869)