Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Just something random I thought I'd try... This is a (sort of) cold read of Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.
We weren't taught much Lewis Carroll in school, so this was my first time actually reading the poem. I pronounced it as it came the way it looked to me, and redid one or two parts for dramatic emphasis, I promise I screwed up the words the same way I did the first time... lol.
I got Audible and have been listening to some more audiobooks, which has me in a writing/reading mood. So I might try out a few more random things like this (on top of the obvious pony songs and things)...
jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html
`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, has 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.
Just something random I thought I'd try... This is a (sort of) cold read of Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.
We weren't taught much Lewis Carroll in school, so this was my first time actually reading the poem. I pronounced it as it came the way it looked to me, and redid one or two parts for dramatic emphasis, I promise I screwed up the words the same way I did the first time... lol.
I got Audible and have been listening to some more audiobooks, which has me in a writing/reading mood. So I might try out a few more random things like this (on top of the obvious pony songs and things)...
jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html
`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, has 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.
