#TheHuntingOfTheSnark hashtag - Bluesky

2 weeks ago

Keywords: Lewis Carroll | The Hunting of the Snark | ambiguity Screenshot from https://www.reddit.com/r/LewisCarroll/comments/1s6o0dg/comment/oddx3ir/ -------------------------- Just for information: The text below is part of an exchange of opinions elsewhere about whether "Boots" is a contraction of "Bonnets and Hoods" or not. -------------------------- This might be interesting for Carroll translators: There is a response to my question to Snark translators «How do translators maintain the ambiguity of lines #9 and #10 in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark"?» 009　 The crew was complete: it included a Boots — 010　　A maker of Bonnets and Hoods — 011　 A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes — 012　　And a Broker, to value their goods. In my view, "Boots" can be contraction of "Bonnets and Hoods". “Bonnets and Hoods” ➜ “Boots” Here “Boots” is a non-sequential interlaced portmanteau. To me, that's obvious. Nevertheless, I played a bit with the an command, which is an anagram builder under Linux. Executing the command for "Bonnets and Hoods" yields many words; therefore I filtered (with grep) all words which contain "boot": $ an -w 'Bonnets and Hoods' | grep boot bootees bootee's booths booth's bootee booted boots boot's booth boot --------------------------

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#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #portmanteau

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SNARK!

@snark.games

2 months ago

=== https://snrk.de/zzota-snark/ === SNARK!, created by ZZOTA in 2006, is a card game based on Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark”. Jeremy Jexon Secker defined the rules in 1985. The beautiful design of the cards is by Xanna Eve Chown. Sadly, ZZOTA vanished away in 2017.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #games #videogames #computergames #cardgames #game #videogame #computergame #cardgame #gamedesign #underdevelopment

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2 months ago

Victorian gent, birdcage in place of head, Brancusi's Flying Bird inside it. Nautical scenery behind him, Miro and Jean Arp birds loiter on rigging, etc. From my GN version of Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark, pubbed by Melville House. So many books, so little money, so much happiness!

It takes a village to make a bird-brain.

#TheHuntingoftheSnark #graphicnovel #comix

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3 months ago

Wouldn't the Island of Sark be just the place for a Snark to celebrate its 150th anniversary in April 2026?

Regrettably, two 150th Snark anniversaries (snrk.de/150th-snark-...) already went largely unnoticed by the Brits in 2025.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #BritishHeritage

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3 months ago

Prompt to Google AI: "isle of sark" "the hunting of the snark". Answer below (2025-12-17): The Isle of Sark has connections to Lewis Carroll's poem, "The Hunting of the Snark," primarily through fantasy stamps and literary allusions by later authors and artists. ※ Fantasy Stamps: The most direct link appears to be "Stamps for Snark," a set of fantasy stamps created by artist Gerald M King, which are explicitly based on the poem and the Channel Island of Sark. ※ Mervyn Peake: Author and artist Mervyn Peake, known for the Gormenghast novels, lived on the Isle of Sark and created illustrations for both "The Hunting of the Snark" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". Peake's home on the island served as a base for his creative work, and critics have noted how his experiences there influenced his illustrations and writing. ※ Literary Allusions: Some literary analyses suggest that the actual Isle of Sark is referenced in other works of fantasy literature in the context of the poem, sometimes subverting the "generosity" of the "Great Pal" in Carroll's tale. Mapmaking in the poem has also been linked to the geography of Sark in academic discussions. While Lewis Carroll did not set the original poem on the actual Isle of Sark, the name's similarity and the island's unique character have led to these subsequent artistic and literary connections.

AI can be fun. I googled for "isle of sark" "the hunting of the snark" ang got this:

#IsleOfSark #IsleOfSnark #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

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4 months ago

Q: Is "The Hunting of the Snark" banned somewhere? A: "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll has faced censorship and bans in various countries. Specifically, it was banned in Yugoslavia and Italy for being "too radical" and was even burned by the Nazis. Additionally, there were attempts to ban it in certain districts of California due to its "morbid plot, crude language, and adult content". WhatsApp AI, 2025-12-09 Keywords: banned books | banned book | outdated attitudes | challenged books | challenged book

The Streisand effect is the challenged book's friend.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #banned #bannedBook #bannedBooks #outdatedAttitudes #censored #blacklisted #challengedBook #challengedBooks #morbid #crudeLanguage #adultContent #StreisandEffect

WhatsApp AI, 2025-12-09

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4 months ago

https://snrk.de/flipping-the-nose/ ※ Left: The Banker in Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876) after his encounter with the Bandersnatch, depicted in Henry Holiday’s illustration (woodcut by Joseph Swain) to the chapter 'The Banker’s Fate' in Lewis Carroll’s tragicomedy. ※ Right: Slightly horizontally compressed rendering of 'The Imagebreakers' (1566-1568, aka 'Allegory of Iconoclasm'), an etching by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. Keys: TheHuntingOfTheSnark | LewisCarroll | HenryHoliday | JosephSwain | MarcusGheeraerts | MarcusGheeraertsTheElder | Nose

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4 months ago

Source: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/bec50f8ef7f84c70909886c4c41f964b?page=10 RADIO TIMES Programme Index - Radio Times Issue Explorer Issue 1519, Television 1952-12-19 21st Dec 1952 - 27th Dec 1952 ------------------- Keys: The Hunting of The Snark

Thank you for the link to the RADIO TIMES (1952-12-19) with an announcement of a broadcast of the musical 'Snark' by Max Saunders (New Zealand).

#SnarkMusic #SnarkMusical #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #MaxSaunders #BBC3

cc: @mikebatt.bsky.social

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4 months ago

#ChristmasGift #FineArt #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #surrealism #LewisCarroll #BlueskyArt

Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" illustrated by Mahendra Singh as a #surrealist #graphicnovel is a beautiful #PuzzleBook for #ArtLovers, as it contains many #allusions to well known #paintings and prints.

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4 months ago

※ Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
※ Grokipedia: web.archive.org/web/20251117...

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday
#grokipedia #elonmusk
#Wikipedia

theguardian.com/technology/2... (As for "The Hunting of the Snark", I don't see any disinformation for that lemma yet. 😉)

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The Institute of Snarkology The Institute of Snarkology

5 months ago

The Institute of Snarkology exists and it's awesome, much more fun than those other, more boring institutes such as MIT or the Rockefeller Institute.
#LewisCarroll #TheHuntingoftheSnark
snarkology.net

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5 months ago

https://snrk.de/page_elizabeth-i/

#October25 20251025

150th Anniversary #OTD :
On October 25th, 1875, Lewis Carroll decided to use “The Hunting of the Snark” as the title of his Snark tragicomedy.

See also: snrk.de/150th-snark-...

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday

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5 months ago

Regrettably, earlier images from Yoda's ancestors don't show colors.

#Yoda #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

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Three 150th Snark anniversaries – The Hunting of the Snark

6 months ago

Henry Holiday’s illustrations to “The Hunting of the Snark” contains lots of such allusions. @panmacmillan.bsky.social seemingly doesn’t get it. They already missed one of the 150th anniversaries of #TheHuntingOfTheSnark. Oct. 25th is the next one.

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6 months ago

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sbrxh/ See also: https://snrk.de/snark-radio-play/

I hope that the BBC will broadcast that radio play again latest around March/April 2026 on occasion of the 150th anniversary of #TheHuntingOfTheSnark.

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6 months ago

https://snrk.de/page_the-ocean-chart/ 089 The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies— 090 Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! 091 Such solemnity, too! One could see he was wise, 092 The moment one looked in his face! 093 He had bought a large map representing the sea, 094 Without the least vestige of land: 095 And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be 096 A map they could all understand. From Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" with 10 illustrations, where 9 illustrations are by Henry Holiday and one illustration - this OCEAN-CHART - probably desighed by Lewis Carroll and made by a type setter.

From #LewisCarroll 's #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

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6 months ago

"SERMONS IN STONES. — On the road from Salisbury to Lymington is a milestone which is affirmed by very many to render an audible sound to those who are passing by it. It has been placed on a mound of earth by which it is so far elevated that the top of the stone is about even with the head of the pedestrian traveller. This milestone is situated in that part of the road which traverses the New Forest, near to the village called Burley. Those who assert that they hear the sound all concur in representing it to be a kind of scratching or scranching, like the edge of an iron-tipped, or the sole of a roughly-nailed, boot being harshly drawn across the gravel. I will not quite compare it to a certain kind of snarking or gnashing, [...]" Source: Notes and Queries, 1866-09-29, Series 3, Volume 10, p. 248 doi: 10.1093/nq/s3-X.248.248-f http://archive.org/stream/s3notesqueries10londuoft/s3notesqueries10londuoft_djvu.txt https://snrk.de/page_etymology-of-snark/

#snarking (1866)
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark (1876)
#snark
#snarky

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6 months ago

On November 1835, Charles Darwin breakfasted in Tahiti while folks back home had their five-o’clock tea (snrk.de/page_breakfa...).

#Snark #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #CharlesDarwin #Tahiti #Breakfast #HMSbeagle

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6 months ago

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #ThomasCranmer

I think that Thomas Cranmer is one of the persons represented by the "Baker" and that C. L. Dodgson's (Lewis Carroll's) feelings about Cranmer were ambivalent.

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6 months ago

https://snrk.de/starry-map/ John Tufail’s “The Illuminated Snark” (p. 15) lead me to this comparison. In 2004 he interpreted the starry night sky in Henry Holiday’s front cover illustration to Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” (1876) as a map, where the white clouds represented land with rivers. I liked the suggestion, but did not find any real-world map to which Holiday might have alluded. Holiday engraved that illustration himself. I discovered John Tufail’s paper in 2009. Only in 2024, after 15 years, I got the idea to compress and flip a large segment of a map of the British isles vertically. That’s my “slowness in taking a jest”. You see the result. Sadly, I can’t tell John that anymore. I appreciated his guidance a lot. The white clouds weren’t the land, but as for a map having been hidden in the illustration, John was right.

#HeadsUp #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #150thAnniversary

@josietturner.bsky.social and @kimberleynyam.bsky.social , how will @panmacmillan.bsky.social celebrate the 150th anniversaries of "The Hunting of the Snark" in October 2025 and April 2026?

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6 months ago

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-souffle-de-la-pensee/la-chasse-au-snark-de-lewis-caroll-par-le-philosophe-roger-pol-droit-7981279 Le philosophe Roger-Pol Droit se souvient de sa première rencontre avec "La Chasse au Snark" de Lewis Carroll, en classe de terminale, il avait seize ans… Avec === Roger-Pol Droit, philosophe, auteur === Roger-Pol Droit est un grand lecteur de Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), et choisit d'évoquer pour nous un texte poétique dont l'auteur nous est forcément connu pour ses aventures d'Alice au Pays des merveilles : La Chasse au Snark. Un équipage improbable et hétéroclite, un animal fantastique, c'est un joyau de non-sens et nul ne sait à quoi ressemble le Snark. Parue en 1875, c’est une œuvre majeure de Lewis Carroll. Roger-Pol Droit découvre le Snark grâce à son professeur de philosophie. Quatre ans plus tard, Gilles Deleuze en parlait dans son ouvrage Logique du sens, en 1969. Ce n’est pas ce long poème de Lewis Carroll qui lui a donné envie de faire de la philosophie, mais celui qui lui a indiqué la voie d’une certaine manière de faire de la philosophie — cette voie qui passerait par l’abolition de la frontière entre sérieux et pas sérieux. https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-souffle-de-la-pensee Le Souffle de la pensée (Par Géraldine Mosna-Savoye. Tous les vendredis, un.e philosophe, sociologue ou historien.ne s'exprime sur un texte qui a façonné sa pensée. Il ou elle livre l'essence des précieux écrits qui l'influence depuis lors.) 2025-09-14 Keywords: The Hunting of the Snark | TheHuntingOfTheSnark | LaChasseAuSnark

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark

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7 months ago

The Bellman gives a magic lantern lecture to the B-Boyz. Tiffin at Breakfasties, etc, A page from my GN version of the Snark, full descriptions of page here: https://justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/search?q=page+15

Every Carrollian must insinuate themselves ever deeper into industry, government, military, public institutions, etc. Time to take back this planet! Back to the trees! Get off my lawn!

#TheHuntingoftheSnark #LewisCarroll #GN #PenandInk #PearlsBeforeSwine #MelvilleHouse

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7 months ago

https://snrk.de/starry-map/ John Tufail’s “The Illuminated Snark” (p. 15) lead me to this comparison. In 2004 he interpreted the starry night sky in Henry Holiday’s front cover illustration to Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” (1876) as a map, where the white clouds represented land with rivers. I liked the suggestion, but did not find any real-world map to which Holiday might have alluded. Holiday engraved that illustration himself. I discovered John Tufail’s paper in 2009. Only in 2024, after 15 years, I got the idea to compress and flip a large segment of a map of the British isles vertically. That’s my “slowness in taking a jest”. You see the result. Sadly, I can’t tell John that anymore. I appreciated his guidance a lot. The white clouds weren’t the land, but as for a map having been hidden in the illustration, John was right.

@harininagendra.bsky.social, as for satellite images (mentioned in your PhD thesis): there is one on the left side of the #sidebyside image below.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark

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Dave Dustin

@dustin.nz

9 months ago

Trying to watch 480p upscaled to 4k is painful.
I'm glad we're watching it for the music makes it tolerable.
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LiveConcert

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10 months ago

https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#quotes SNARK FOOD "‘What is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversations?’" ~ Lewis Carroll, 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland "All art is infested by other art." ~ Leo Steinberg in 'Art about Art', 1979 "We have neglected the gift of comprehending things through our senses. Concept is divorced from percept, and thought moves among abstractions. Our eyes have been reduced to instruments with which to identify and to measure; hence we suffer a paucity of ideas that can be expressed in images and in an incapacity to discover meaning in what we see. Naturally we feel lost in the presence of objects that make sense only to undiluted vision, and we seek refuge in the more familiar medium of words. ... The inborn capacity to understand through the eyes has been put to sleep and must be reawakened." ~ Rudolf Arnheim: 'Art and Visual Perception', 1974, p. 1 "Only those questions that are in principle undecidable, we can decide." ~ Heinz von Foerster: 'Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics', Système et thérapie familiale, Paris, 1990-10-04 "It is possible that the author was half-consciously laying a trap, so readily did he take to the inventing of puzzles and things enigmatic; but to those who knew the man, or who have divined him correctly through his writings, the explanation is fairly simple." ~ Henry Holiday, 1898-01-29, on Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark' "To the best of my recollection, I had no other meaning in my mind, when I wrote ['The Hunting of the Snark']: but people have since tried to find the meanings in it. The one I like best (which I think is partly my own) is that it may be taken as an Allegory for the Pursuit of Happiness." ~ Lewis Carroll (letter to Mary Barber), 1897-12-01 "L.C. has forgotten that 'the Snark' is a tragedy" ~ Henry Holiday (remark written on a letter received from L. Carroll), 1876-01-04

#quotes #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday #HeinzVonFoerster #RudolfArnheim #LeoSteinberg #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

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Götz

@goetzkluge.bsky.social

10 months ago

#rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday

Unknown artist (1674), "De Duitse bischoppen verslagen, Fig. 4/4 to the orartie van de Professor L. Wolsogen over syndroom en de nytlegging van de felue gadaen …"

See also: www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

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11 months ago

It's a dog's life dodging Dodgsons
(BTW, the surname's pronounced Dod-son)
#LewisCarroll #TheHuntingoftheSnark #graphicnovels

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