too allusive?
maybe...
i normally don't like to be approached
by more than twenty of these
words in the same month:
overarching
heidegger
solicitude
handedness
schematize
dianoetic
penumbral
apperception
aesthesis
trockenberen
auslese
morphology
fatted
dessication
quiddity
essentia
lair
jeremiad
minotaur
blather
effluvia
reconnoitering
espy
portent
mozaritan
wraith
savour
artifice
haughtily
this is two months worth of reader's
digest's "it pays to increase your
wordpower"
but then,
i'm a...
-werd wimp (no offense intended)
maybe if you'd made it rhyme
it would have been less allusive
'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 maxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood a while in thought.
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.
"Has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Calloh! 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 caroll (jabberwockey) |
