"The work of Lewis Carroll has everything required to please the modern reader:  children's books or, rather, books for little girls; splendidly bizarre and esoteric words; grids; codes and decodings; drawings and photographs; a profound psychoanalytic content; and an exemplary logical and linguistic formalism. Over and above the immediate pleasure, though, there is something else, a play of sense and nonsense, a chaosmos. . . . It is easy to explain why [a theory of sense] is inseparable from paradoxes:  sense is a nonexisting entity, and, in fact, maintains very special relations with nonsense."

-Gilles Deleuze, preface to The Logic of Sense