I have always loved both Jabberwocky and really everything else written by Lewis Carroll. I used to have a dog that I regularly accused of being a slithy tove.
I'm reminded that I've enjoyed reading a number of Carroll's poems. If I had to pick one verse out of all of them it would be the conclusion to The Hunting of the Snark:
No small task, Jabberwocky illustration! Very nice. Always wanted to see a good vorpal blade. Thanks! And the hero's "transformation" from boy into ... what?? Yikes. Must have mor coffee
I sometimes wondered if "snickersnee" in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado in 1885 was borrowed from Carroll's "snicker-snack" in Through the Looking-Glass published in 1871. But it seems that "snickersnee" has been around since 1775.
It remains a mystery
That long ago history
Answers naught to it
But it ought to it
Become explanatory.
The snick in snicker is probably just onomatopoeia played poetic. Steel swords do snick when nicking, sticking or doing unsnickering icking.
I have always loved both Jabberwocky and really everything else written by Lewis Carroll. I used to have a dog that I regularly accused of being a slithy tove.
I'm reminded that I've enjoyed reading a number of Carroll's poems. If I had to pick one verse out of all of them it would be the conclusion to The Hunting of the Snark:
In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away—
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
No small task, Jabberwocky illustration! Very nice. Always wanted to see a good vorpal blade. Thanks! And the hero's "transformation" from boy into ... what?? Yikes. Must have mor coffee
I'm kinda fond of the Mad Gardener's Song.
It's enchanting, not overdone but on the contrary well-done. Thank you so much.
Delightful, as always!
"The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!".
I sometimes wondered if "snickersnee" in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado in 1885 was borrowed from Carroll's "snicker-snack" in Through the Looking-Glass published in 1871. But it seems that "snickersnee" has been around since 1775.
It remains a mystery
That long ago history
Answers naught to it
But it ought to it
Become explanatory.
The snick in snicker is probably just onomatopoeia played poetic. Steel swords do snick when nicking, sticking or doing unsnickering icking.
(Inadvertent dupe, deleted)