Can anyone tell me where the Mome Raths Outgrabe can be found?!
Question: If you've seen them, please tell me where. Thanks.
Answers: If you've seen them, please tell me where. Thanks.
'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.
~Lewis Carroll
Edit:
Herfinator:
"Jabberwocky" being probably the best known nonsense verse in English literature, it's just that...nonsense. It's largely subject to the reader's own interpretation. Hence, sharing with all the whole verse, as not all are familliar with it. Nor are many of the younger generations familliar with 19th century literature full stop.
To quote Lewis Carroll in further regard:
"Well, 'outgribing' is something between bellowing an whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle: however, you'll hear it done, maybe--down in the wood yonder--and when you've once heard it, you'll be quite content. Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?"
"I read it in a book", said Alice.
(from Through The Looking Glass)
With all due respect to your first poster (and I love that poem), the Mome Raths can be found, obviously, near the wabe. They have just completed their outgrubbing, as outgrabe is the past tense of the verb "to outgrub".
Unless of course, you use the adjective "mimsy" to define both the "borogoves" and the "mome raths outgrabe" -- I never thought of it that way. I always figured that a mome rath was a specific type of rath, and that outgrubbing was what they did. Hmmmmm . . .
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