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'...there's glory for you', remarked Humpty Dumpty.
'I don't know what you mean by "glory,"' Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't--till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'
'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,"' Alice objected.
'When *I* use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master--that's all.'
--- Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), "Through the Looking-Glass", ch. 5
;^)
well Obama is definitely Master and we have been through the lookingglass for some time. i am still not over the election. may never be.