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SATIRE AND SYMBOLISM IN THE GOLDEN COCKEREL1
"If any one of them can explain it", said Alice ... "I'll give him sixpence, Idon't believe there's an atom of meaning in it". "If there's no meaning in it", said the King, "that saves a world of trouble you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know", he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee ... "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all".
1A part of this article was broadcast in the BBC Third Programme on 27 December 1969