My First All Nighter!!!

D_yer_Maker
Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:35:44 +0000

BEWARE. Although I’ve become a night owl and find my muse in the wee hours, my earliest all-nighters spent writing research papers generated stuff that was more akin to Jabberwocky. Indeed, it is my firmly held belief that Lewis Carroll was pulling his first ever all-nighter writing about the See of Devon and the Lord of Cornwall’s move to Exeter in 1050 when he came up with:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Which is exactly what my first all-nighter papers looked like when beset by the light of dawn unbidden. In other words, use spell check! And find a proof-reader. Considering it’s an autobiography, it could prevent the disclosure of certain facts to your teacher and classmates not meant for public consumption.