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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 3798186" data-attributes="member: 3586">'You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir' said Alice. 'Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called "Jabberwocky"?' 'Let's hear it,' said Humpty Dumpty. 'I can explain all the poems that ever were invented just yet.' This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse:-- `'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves   Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,   And the mome raths outgrabe.'`That's enough to begin with,' Humpty Dumpty interrupted: `there are plenty of hard words there. "Brillig" means four o'clock in the afternoon -- the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.' `That'll do very well,' said Alice: `and "slithy"?' `Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy". "Lithe" is the same as "active". You see it's like a portmanteau -- there are two meanings packed up into one word.' `I see it now,' Alice remarked thoughtfully: `and what are "toves"?' `Well, "toves" are something like badgers -- they're something like lizards -- and they're something like corkscrews.' `They must be very curious-looking creatures.' `They are that,' said Humpty Dumpty; `also they make their nests under sun-dials -- also they live on cheese.' `And what's to "gyre" and to "gimble"?' `To "gyre" is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To "gimble" is to make holes like a gimlet.' `And "the wabe" is the grass-plot round a sun-dial, I suppose?' said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity. `Of course it is. It's called "wabe" you know, because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it --' `And a long way beyond it on each side,' Alice added. `Exactly so. Well then, "mimsy" is "flimsy and miserable" (there's another portmanteau for you). And a "borogove" is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round -- something like a live mop.'<img src="http://www.sabian.org/Alice/lg29.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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