Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Anna Graham Meets Lewis Carroll

I stumbled upon a site called Sternest Meanings. It's an anagram-bot. You enter text, it turns it into an anagram. I started out just typing in nonsense words. I'd just been to a site that showed a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where Calvin's test question was "Explain Newton's First Law of Motion in your own words." Calvin answered by writing down a bunch of nonsense words. Well, they were his own words, just not anybody else's.

Then I decided to enter Jabberwocky, one line at a time. After a lot of reformatting, this is what came out, with the anagram lines in red.

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Joy! Wobbly, crab-like scrawler.

Twas brillig and the slithey toves
Stealthless virginity deathblow.
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
Blimey! Wide-ranging deathbed.
All mimsey were the borogroves
Best-ever heroes warm gloomily.
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Better smooth, mad harangue.

Beware the jabberwock, my son,
Now cheeky jabberer wombats.
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch.
Shhh! Jaw cheat battiest twattle. Catch.
Beware the jubjub bird and shun
Unjust whine, jabbered drab hub.
The frumious bandersnatch.
Subhuman, coarsened thrift.

He took his vorpal sword in hand
Lavish sharp or not hoodwinked.
Long time the manxome foe he sought.
Heigh-ho! Memo of exultant gemstone.
And rested he by the tumtum tree
Heathy, demented brute mutters.
And stood a while in thought
Stud and white-hot hooligan.

And while in uffish thought he stood
Heigh-ho! Unwashed, unfit filth. Stood.
The Jabberwock, with eyes aflame
Bath cheek-by-jowl, sweatier fame.
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood
Thoughtful, fetching whigmaleery. Wood.
And burbled as it came!
Dear! Stubbled maniac.

One, two! One two! And through and through
Now rant not tough woodenhead. Hog hurt.
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack.
Prevalent deathblow. Knickers scan.
He left it dead and with its head
In the daft, detailed death wish.
He went galumphing back.
Whacking, mean pleb thug.

And hast though slain the Jabberwock?
Hash ghoulish attendant. Jerk bow cab.
Oh, come to my arms, my beamish boy!
Yo-ho-ho! I'm best mercy mamma's boy.
O frabjous day! Calloo! Callay!
Joy! A cool rascal of laudably.
He chortled in his joy.
Enjoy or the childish.

Twas brillig and the slithey toves
Stealthless virginity deathblow.
Did gyre and gimbel in the wabe.
Blimey! Wide-ranging deathbed.
All mimsey were the borogroves
Best-ever heroes warm gloomily.
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Better smooth, mad harangue.

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