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`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.

Jabberwocky: Lewis Carroll

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Uploaded: Oct 07, 2009 - 07:56:55 PM
Last Updated: Oct 16, 2009 - 05:17:49 PM Last Played: Nov 17, 2009 - 03:50:35 PM
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Halloween-2009-Challenge said 48 days ago (October 7th, 2009)
Very cool
excellent reading my friend with just enough mystery and dread in the music to make it scary.

Queeny
sloparts said 48 days ago (October 7th, 2009)
I like this Bill
I like the reading and the soft, but chilling music in the background. Nice production with a good clean vocal, like a great Martini, not to dry and not to wet.

Love it Bill

Ed
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dave_b said 48 days ago (October 7th, 2009)
Jabber
Studied this one in school as a kid, and always liked it. Nice job with the reading, and the music definitely suited the subject matter. Don't get the cover art though... Are those slithy toves or is it an aerial shot of a wabe :)
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SmokeyVW said 48 days ago (October 7th, 2009)
wabe
i almost understand this poem - yet i don't. you know....

thanks

well... so... i changed the pic - suppose that's a wabe? i dunno!

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mybravedesign said 48 days ago (October 7th, 2009)
nice...
loved this the first time i read it... awesome with the impending doom behind you....
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Outtaorbit said 48 days ago (October 7th, 2009)
This is pretty cool.......
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DWL said 48 days ago (October 8th, 2009)
Great poem and a great treament
Nice work.

Cheers

Dick
Ex_Silentio said 48 days ago (October 8th, 2009)
Perfect for a cold Halloween brillig
Clever and creepy. Well done.
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Moviz said 47 days ago (October 9th, 2009)
Loved
listening to this.... the backing created just the right atmosphere for the words.... just loved the reading, especially of those almost unpronounceable words, which hold such meaning in a poem such as this, cheers M
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MarkHolbrook said 35 days ago (October 21st, 2009)
I have always
liked this poem... I used to listen to it on the original Ambrosia album.

Nice rendition!
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PaulaMunk said 29 days ago (October 26th, 2009)
Bill, my son
has this memorized to this day. Nicely done. Thanks.
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mr_mordenus said 29 days ago (October 27th, 2009)
I may go to hell for saying this
...but there's something almost Dr. Suessian about this - not the 'kid friendly' Dr. Suess, but some alternate-reality Hellraiser Dr. Suess, where the weird birdlike creatures with big beaks and oily plumage have oversized teeth that chitter and chatter and gnaw on bone.....

I can see a gentle man reading this in some hellish landscape where creatures too hideous to even glance at - to even *comprehend* - flap past with leathery wings, and then the gentle man looks up from the book, smiles, and you slowly realize that this nice man with the gentle, kind voice is even more sinister than the creatures around him...

Wicked good reading!
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maxruehl said 26 days ago (October 30th, 2009)
I Saw
Michael Hedges do this live. It was nowhere near as sinister as this version. Very nice, Bill.:)
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Doug Somers said 25 days ago (October 31st, 2009)
What a great sound bed
This so supports the reading of the poem, but in a way that I have never felt about this work before. I always took it (in school) to be silly fun, a notch up from Dr. Suess. But not after your rendering. Your use of the misty melding of tones, voices, and other sounds is really powerful here, and the choice of keeping them low in the mix makes them all the more dreamlike, if not nightmarish - did we really hear what we thought we did?

What did you use for the female choir? Jampack?

Very cool!

Take care,
Doug

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Jarvoid said 24 days ago (November 1st, 2009)
Lewis Carrol
would greatly appreciate this I think,very good rendition and great creepy background
score.
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