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What is Jabberwocky?
Thursday 10 September 2009 4:01 pm
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Since we are allowed 1 Brain Dump only (for now), so I had to think of a good name for my Brain Dump site. I have several in my head:

  • Jabberwocky
  • Amor mi mosse
  • Meow

End up I have chosen Jabberwocky. So what is Jabberwocky?

Jabberwocky is a poem by Lewis Carroll. he wrote that in his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). For people who don’t bother, basically in the second Alice book. It’s a poem of nonsense verse.

'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.

There are heaps of Jabberwocky videos on YouTube. My favourite one is performed by The Muppet Show. Let me share it here. ;)

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Friday 11 September 2009
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Jacqualine Chow  04:15 pm
  The Jabberwock is some sort of monster... Jabberwocky is the poem :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky
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Edmund Yeung  02:41 pm
  I still don't get what Jabberwocky is!
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Thursday 10 September 2009
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Jacqualine Chow  04:59 pm
  Hugh, you are the first one write a comment here! :D
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Hugh  04:28 pm
  LOL
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