Sunday, March 21

Jabberwocky

Pardon me for a moment of giddy tangent.
I just saw the new Alice in Wonderland movie. It was amazing... I adored it and am so buzzed on it and the pop I drank... Yeah, I'm keeping my talking to a minimum.
Anyway, the Mad Hatter quoted a passage from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There which I thought I'd share. Enjoy. And try to make some sense of it.
Because there is no more sense to it than what a raven and a writing desk have in common.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
  Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
  And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
  And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
  He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
  He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

;)
~Godspede

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