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 The Jabberwocky and FFXI

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PostSubject: The Jabberwocky and FFXI   The Jabberwocky and FFXI Icon_minitimeWed Mar 03, 2010 9:48 pm

So I rediscovered one of my old favorite poems (and I don't have many; I'm typically horrible at understanding poems): The Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. I realized that there were at least a couple of things from the Jabberwocky that FFXI seems to have pulled from (one of them, "Vorpal", as in "Vorpal Sword", being the most well known). So here's the poem:

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'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.

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(You see why it's one of my favorites? I don't have to understand it. There's nothing to understand here xD) Anyway, the other FFXI term I noticed was, the Bandersnatch! Bandersnatches are hounds in the Gusgen Mines ^^ Anyone else recognize any FFXI terms here? Are there treants called Tumtum trees? :p


Found another one! :o Here's the list so far:

Vorpal Sword: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=11180 (apparently, the main character of this poem was a rdm :P)
The Bandersnatch: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=37 (So, next time you're in Gusgen Mines, and you run into a Bandersnatch... shunnn!!!)
The Jubjub bird: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=461
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