…“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 snickersnack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish
boy!
O frabjous day!Callooh!Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.
…
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass
and What Alice Found There, 1872)

This sock is what happened when I started knitting while thinking about the Jabberwocky from the Alice in Wonderland movie.