Nonsense delights us I think because it offers us language in mutation, in gestation — how much richer English is for “brillig” and “snark!” — and because it ridicules pompous, vain, and obsessive behavior.
“O ivory, delicate hands! O face that hovers Between ‘To-come’ and ‘Was,’ Ivory thou wast, A rose thou wilt be.”
Ezra Pound
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