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[rogue_ravnos]

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" was his response.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll

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Not quite

[emberleo]

I'm not just doing this to be obnoxious, I swear I have a point.

I know the Alice books pretty well, and that quote doesn't sound quite right to me, so I grabbed one of several annotated copies from my Alice shelf and looked it up.

Sure enough:

"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," said the Cat

It seems pretty close, so what's my point?

My point is that it isn't not knowing, it's not caring that makes it not matter.

If you care but don't know, you need to seek. Not knowing where you want to go means you're still finding your path.

Not caring means you have forsaken all paths, at which point yeah, it doesn't matter.

So I ask you - do you just not know, or do you not even care?

--Ember--

Re: Not quite

[yuusada]

You just blew my mind.

[shidaisss]

- Lewis Carroll