Alice

Not only is it a highly successful Disney movie, but there were over 5 movies made using the same story line (a girl named Alice is trapped a world of nonsense). I love this story because I often feel like Alice. A lot of things make little or no sense to me...Like elections, and war, and famine... and i feel very lonely. Too often, I feel like no one understands me and that most of my logic has become gibberish to the rest of the world. I was reminded of my love for Alice in Wonderland by my English professor who shared the poem "The Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carrol. As he read through it, I was taken aback to my childhood years and was compelled to share this poem of genius-nonsense...Enjoy :)
Also, I want a mome rath.

JABBERWOCKY

Lewis Carroll (from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

 

`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.