To Sarie: daughter,friend
“I don't understand you,” said Alice. “It's dreadfully confusing.”
“That's the effect of living backwards,” the Queen said kindly. “It always makes one a little giddy at first.”
“Living backwards!” Alice repeated in great astonishment. “I never heard of such a thing!”
“But there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.”
“I'm sure mine only works one way,” Alice remarked. “I can't remember things before they happen.”
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward,” the Queen remarked.
– LEWISCARROLL
Through the Looking-Glass
The Way of the bodyguard is resolute acceptance of death.
– MIYAMOTOMUSASHI
a seventeenth-century samurai