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Humpty Dumpty

Oil on linen, 12x9 in., 2003

"MUST a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.

"Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: "MY name means the shape I am--and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.
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"...Now, take a good look at me! I'm one that has spoken to a King, I am: mayhap you'll never see such another: and to show you I'm not proud, you may shake hands with me!" And he grinned almost from ear to ear, as he leant forwards (and as nearly as possible fell off the wall in doing so) and offered Alice his hand. She watched him a little anxiously as she took it. "If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind,"she thought, "and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!"