Raising the whiskey again, he spied something on the deck’s bench. He got up and walked over to find the Lewis Carroll book the child had given him at the school inauguration. He flopped down and opened the book and read the first words he found.
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogroves,
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!"
The words made about as much sense to Harry as a purple pelican, coded in some weird, brackish language. Luckily the book had a preface to help guide him to understanding.
“In some instances, Carroll took common words and thrust them together to form a wholly original word,” th
