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Friday, November 03, 2006

Once, long ago, I read this poem.....

'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 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.

....after that, I got totally hooked on fantasy shit. I've read it over and over and yet I can't find a subliminal message in it anywhere. Odd that something so insane can effect a person so greatly. To this day I can still see the child wielding that great vorpal blade and downing that deadly Jabberwock!

They even did a Ghostbusters cartoon of the Jabberwocky a long time ago although it was slightly less memorable but to it's credit I do still remember the episode (but, then again, the poem did touch me so).