'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 backwards,' the
Queen remarked.

'What sort of things do YOU remember best?' Alice ventured to
ask.

'Oh, things that happened the week after next,' the Queen
replied in a careless tone. 'For instance, now,' she went on,
sticking a large piece of plaster [band-aid] on her finger as she
spoke, 'there's the King's Messenger. He's in prison now, being
punished: and the trial doesn't even begin till next Wednesday:
and of course the crime comes last of all.'

'Suppose he never commits the crime?' said Alice.