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1. You may have thought the Jabberwock was killed in Lewis Carroll's poem, but you would be incorrect. Something went amiss (the "beamish boy" actually chopped off the head of a rabid pirate), and the Jabberwock escaped. Hoping to avoid detection, she modified her name to Jabberwok and took up residence in Sussex, where she harbored a desire to avenge the injustice that nearly befell her.
2. Jabberwok went to university to learn about pre-1500 history. She worked part-time in the library, where there were paintings of various mythological creatures, and she would spend many hours examining them. In the evening, she went into her office at home and would relax by sketching the creatures she had seen that day.
3. Jabberwok was pretty impressed with the story of the Trojan Horse. She decided to come up with a similar scheme -- she would use a disguise to allow her to get near the home of the beamish boy! She plotted her revenge carefully. She wrote it down and stored the blueprint in a cabinet for safe-keeping until she was ready to act.
4. Jabberwok had to decide what to name her creature. She considered "Trojan Llama" but decided that the beamish boy would be too afraid of the howl of a llama to let it in. While she was pondering the issue, the phone rang but it went to voice mail. It was the local schoolmaster; Jabberwok would have to contact him by phone later.
5. Jabberwok ended up with three name choices that made the final group. She decided to pass on Trojan Turtle and Trojan Rabbit (the latter sounded too familiar - someone must have already used that title). The winner was Trojan Panda. She set to work chopping wood for it but suffered a laceration and had to put the task off for a while.
6. Jabberwok contacted the schoolmaster. He wanted to offer her a job teaching ten-year old children at the local school. Jabberwok thought it would require too much effort, but she needed the money to build her Trojan Panda so she accepted. She thought this undertaking might succeed.
7. The first day of teaching was an adventure! Jabberwok returned home exhausted, but the day wasn't over. She wanted to try out her Trojan Panda, but first she had to write a quiz for tomorrow's class. This took longer than she expected, and she had to postpone her trial run for another day.
8. Jabberwok had planned to make the Trojan Panda assault in Autumn, but fate intervened. She slipped on a banana peel and plummeted to the ground. The injury kept her from her final rehearsals, and she failed to keep pace with her schedule. The revenge would have to wait.
9. Meanwhile, school was going well. The children were amusing, and Jabberwok even enjoyed having homework to grade. She could see herself doing this for the next twenty years. Gradually, the desire to get even with the beamish boy was waning.
10. In the end, Jabberwok made a momentous decision. She liked her new life and wanted it to go on forever. She dismantled the Trojan Panda, symbolically throwing the final pieces of her former life in the fireplace. The Jabberwock was no more, and Jabberwok lived happily ever after.
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