As this poem is to some extent connected with the lay of the Jabberwock, let me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been asked me, how to pronounce “slithy toves.” The “i” in “slithy” is long, as in “writhe”; and “toves” is pronounced so as to rhyme with “groves.” Again, the first “o” in “borogoves” is pronounced like the “o” in “borrow.” I have heard people try to give it the sound of the “o” in “worry.” Such is Human Perversity.
i read the preface to The Hunting of the Snark as a child, and the phrase “Such is Human Perversity” has been stuck in my head forever since
10k notes post five years ago: i had a dream that mothman did cough syrup with me in a denny’s parking lot and told me that liminal spaces are where we feel most at home
10k notes post now: girl balls are like two lighthouse keepers that form an inseparable bond and dash themselves on the rocks together at the thought of returning to land <3
10k notes post five years from now: who all remember boston 😭😭
