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Are we not all a lot of "slithy toves, that gyre and gimble in the wabe" -- or worse?

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  • So on this brillin, slithy toves kind of Sunday, indulge in the nonsense of Alice's crocodile and Jabberwock. —  SunHerald.com: Featured Story
  • 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe / All mimsy were the borogoves / And the mome raths outgrabe. —  Jabberwock
  • 'Twas brillig and the slythy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe ... —  Latest Articles
  • 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimbel in the wabe, —  Least I Could Do
  • And then we toves the wendror well —  The Romany Rye
 

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