words contest

our word contest.

my first part was Lewis Carroll's “The Three Voices”:

“[…] Her voice was very full and rich,/ And, when at length she asked him "Which?" / It mounted to its highest pitch.
He a bewildered answer gave, / Drowned in the sullen moaning wave, / Lost in the echoes of the cave.
He answered her he knew not what: /Like shaft from bow at random shot, / He spoke, but she regarded not.
She waited not for his reply, / But with a downward leaden eye / Went on as if he were not by
Sound argument and grave defence, / Strange questions raised on "Why?" and "Whence?" / And wildly tangled evidence.
When he, with racked and whirling brain, /Feebly implored her to explain, / She simply said it all again.
Wrenched with an agony intense, / He spake, neglecting Sound and Sense, / And careless of all consequence:
"Mind--I believe--is Essence--Ent - / Abstract--that is--an Accident - / Which we--that is to say--I meant--"
When, with quick breath and cheeks all flushed, / At length his speech was somewhat hushed, he looked at him, and he was crushed.
It needed not her calm reply: / She fixed him with a stony eye, / And he could neither fight nor fly.
While she dissected, word by word, / His speech, half guessed at and half heard, / As might a cat a little bird. […] "

The second voice.
And I love Red...this Red, from here.