Gloomorous Mimsy (where ‘Mimsy’ is a noun :)

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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.

“It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand!” (You see she didn’t like to confess even to herself, that she couldn’t make it out at all.) “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: that’s clear, at any rate—”

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

By Lewis Carroll

Because of my poor English, when I first read Through the Looking Glass, I decided that the word “mimsy” is a noun. And until now, even knowing that this is an adjective, I continue to imagine some kind of a peculiar creature – “mimsy”. 🙂 So, don’t be confused — please allow me to introduce you to the ‘Gloomorous Mimsy’ as I see it.

I mean I’m on the way to the Looking Glass, sketching, and even playing with clay.

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