quotation help

[Earl Sampson]

C. Fields wrote:

>It's not from "The Jabberwocky."
>
>
>On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Sarah N Tepsic wrote:
>
>> The poem that you might be looking for is called "The Jabberwocky" by
>> Lewis Caroll.
>>


Right, the line "The iggle squiggs trazed trombly through the harlish goop"
is not from the Lewis Carroll poem ("Jabberwocky", not "The Jabberwocky";
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, Chap 1), though it certainly sounds like it
should be. My guess, if it's not an ad hoc creation by a linguist as Alina
Isreali suggests, is someone trying to imitate Carroll. You might try Ogden
Nash. Another possibility is that it's from somewhere else in Carroll's
works, though I doubt it: Martin Gardner's thorough (and fascinating) notes
(THE ANNOTATED ALICE) give no indication that Carroll wrote other verse in
the manner of "Jabberwocky", though he devotes several notes to the use of
individual words from "Jabberwocky" in THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK.

Earl Sampson
Boulder, CO