“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I chose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that’s all.”

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There

[Gregg LeFevre Signature]

The Library Walk, is a venture launched in 1996 by the New York Public Library, Grand Central Partnership and New Yorker Magazine, in which are embedded in bronze plaques quotes from well-known books, or those dealing with books and literature. The panels designed by artist Gregg LeFevre were laid in 1998 from the New York Public Library building along 41st Street.

The plaque contains an excerpt from the book by the British writer and logician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known as the pen of Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There, the sequel to "Alice in Wonderland".
The piece is a dialogue between Humpty-Dumpty (who was originally an egg) and Alice.

In the plaque, the artist describes the fall and crash of Humpty Dumpty, depicted in the well-known children’s song:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.