"...the looking-glass shook so violently with its
own grinning that it slipped out of their hands; and having fallen down to
the earth it broke into hundreds of millions of billions of pieces, and
still more, which caused greater mischief than ever, for some of the
pieces were no larger than dust, and these flying about in the air,
whoever got them in his eyes saw the whole human race distorted..."
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, publ. Thomas Nelson & Sons, undated