| From: | Mach mach@****.caltech.edu |
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| Subject: | Annotated Nonsense |
| Date: | Wed, 3 Nov 1999 08:45:14 -0800 (PST) |
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The Jabberwocky
'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 hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arm, 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
--Lewis Carroll
_The Annotated Alice_
or _Through the Looking Glass_
I guess they are right when they say that there is no respect for fine
literature these days. And if you are wondering what the above is all
about, I guess you will just have to ask Humpty Dumpty. That is what
Alice did. =) ]<<<<<
-- Michael <08:45:11/11-03-60 PST>
