EXEGESIS

Carroll, Alice, chapter 12·English

Rule Forty-two

The King reads from his book: Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court. Alice says he invented it just now. The 42 is in the wording, as a rule-number, in a trial that is already a joke about evidence.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, ch. 12 (1865)