Posted by Mike Field on April 18, 2007 at 00:08:14 from 203.129.46.93 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: John galumphs twice posted by Ed Kiser on April 17, 2007 at 16:20:55:
AR borrowed the word "galumph" from Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) who coined it, along with several dozen other new words, for his nonsense-poem "Jabberwocky" --
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
(The word is thought to be a combination of "gallop" and "triumph," which seems a pretty apt activity for the Beamish Boy under the circumstances.)