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Discrete
Mathematics with Applications (Second Edition)
Susanna
S. Epp
page 555, Section 10.3
"You
are sad, " the Knight said in an anxious tone:
"let me sing you a song to comfort you."
"Is it very long?" Alice asked, for she had
heard a good deal of poetry that day.
"It's long," said the Knight, "but it's
very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing
it--either it brings tears into the eyes, or else--"
"Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had
made a sudden pause.
"Or else it doesn't, you know. The name of the song
is called 'Haddocks' Eyes..'"
"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice
said, trying to feel interested.
"No, you don't understand, " the Knight said,
looking a little vexed. "That's what the name is called.
The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man.'"
"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song
is called'?" Alice corrected herself.
"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song
is called 'Ways and Means': but that's only what it's called,
you know!"
"Well, what is the song then?" said Alice, who
was by this time completely bewildered.
"I was coming to that," the Knight said.
"The song really is 'A-sitting on a Gate': and the
tune's my own invention."
So saying, he stopped his horse and let the reins fall on
its neck: then, slowly beating time with one hand, and
with a faint smile lighting up his gentle foolish face,
as if he enjoyed the music of his song, he began.
(Lewis
Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1872)