How Very Sad

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), Jabberwocky

I was talking with my eleven-year old son a few minutes ago and for some reason, I started reciting the poem Jabberwocky from Through the Looking Glass. And he looked at me like I was completely 'round the bend. He had never even heard of Lewis Carroll or his books. He had a vague knowledge of Alice in Wonderland via a Disney movie. I had to find the Jabberwocky poem on the web so he would believe his Dad hadn't gone completely nuts. Then I found the Walrus and the Carpenter for him as well.

What in the world are they teaching children these days, anyway?

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