Javawocky

Our name is inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem, and our logo is heavily based on John Tenniel's illustration. Both appear in the novel Through the Looking Glass - as well as in profusion on the web.

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Jabberwocky

'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.

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By Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1872).

For more information concerning "Jabberwocky" (pronunciation, origin, illustrations, etc), see the Google directory section for Lewis Carroll, especially the section for Jabberwocky.

The next Javawocky will be

Saturday, October 2nd, 2004

from 7:30 to 10:00pm . The Javawocky as a whole can be reached at thejavawocky@yahoo.com, or you can sign or view our guestbook.