Jabberwocky
Description
Kyungsoo is a linguistics major struggling with his seemingly impossible new assignment and questioning his life choices. A dusty bookshelf, some old English poetry, and a very annoyed girl in the library reaffirm his love for linguistics (and perhaps something more). Kyungsoo x OC. Part I of 'First Encounters,' a Kyungsoo x OC oneshot series.
Foreword
Just a little something inspired by the stress of finals week and a rather intriguing conversation I had with a professor. For reference, the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll (which is an absolute masterpiece that I, sadly, do not own) is below.
"Jabberwocky"
By Lewis Carroll
’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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