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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 1d

Almost every reader of "The Hunting of the Snark" thinks that the hunting party consists of 10 Snark hunters. How unhinged is the opinion that there are only 9 hunters in Lewis Carroll's Snark tragicomedy?

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 13h

All of us are hunting Snarks in our pursuit of happiness (snrk.de?s=PursuitOfH...). But once you found the Snark, it might have turned into a Boojum.

In fascism, even the hunters are Boojums.

Monsters, by Henry Holiday (1875) and J. J. Grandville (1842).

Source: https://snrk.de/delightful-monster/

About Holiday's Boojum (left image):
«One of the first three [illustrations] I had to do was the disappearance of the Baker, and I not unnaturally invented a Boojum. Mr. Dodgson wrote that it was a delightful monster, but that it was inadmissible. All his descriptions of the Boojum were quite unimaginable, and he wanted the creature to remain so. I assented, of course, though reluctant to dismiss what I am still confident is an accurate representation. I hope that some future Darwin in a new Beagle will find the beast, or its remains; if he does, I know he will confirm my drawing.»
Source: Henry Holiday (1898) "The Snark’s Significance", https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/HenryHoliday_TheSnarksSignificance__searchable.pdf

About Grandvilles monster (right image):
The Loves of Two Beasts (Freaking Monster) - in 'Animals Painted by Themselves: Private and Public Life of Animals' by Grandville, Chapter by Honoré de Balzac, ed. Hetzel
https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Grandville/1066441/The-Loves-of-Two-Beasts-(Freaking-Monster)---in-%27Animals-Painted-by-Themselves:-Private-and-Public-Life-of-Animals%27-by-Grandville,-Chapter-by-Honor%C3%A9-de-Balzac,-ed.-Hetzel.html

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 13h

All of us are hunting Snarks in our pursuit of happiness (snrk.de?s=PursuitOfH...). But once you found the Snark, it might have turned into a Boojum.

In fascism, even the hunters are Boojums.

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 1d

I like the image.

As for the quote, this link is helpful: quoteinvestigator.com/2022/10/31/r...

Quote Origin: In the Sublime War of Humanity Against Reality, Humanity Has But One Weapon, The Imagination – Quote Investigator®

Lewis Carroll? Cheshire Cat? C. S. Lewis? Jules de Gaultier? Benjamin de Casseres? Percy Bysshe Shelley? Herbert Kaufman? Apocryphal?

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 1d

Katherine Wakely-Mulroney, "The Man Who Loved Children: Lewis Carroll Studies’ Evidence Problem, Journal of the History of Sexuality", University of Texas Press, Volume 30, Number 3, pp. 335-362, 2021-09

www.academia.edu/67147027/The...

https://www.academia.edu/67147027/The_Man_Who_Loved_Children_Lewis_Carroll_Studies_Evidence_Problem

Carroll Studies' Evidence Problem
Katherine Wakely-Mulroney
2021, Journal of the History of Sexuality

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Lewis Carroll studies treats investigations into the author’s sexuality as outmoded, even unscholarly. This is partly a response to the speculative biographical criticism and media coverage of the 1990s and early 2000s, which placed undue emphasis on his alleged pedophilia. In their efforts to provide a more nuanced, historically contextualized vision of Carroll’s child-friendships, modern critics have tended to either dismiss any allegation of impropriety or treat the subject as a perpetually open question. Both positions foreground the availability and interpretation of evidence, and raise questions concerning scholarly expertise and gatekeeping. This essay argues for a new understanding of what evidence concerning Carroll’s sexuality entails. I identify a shared organizational ethos between his two-part novel Sylvie and Bruno (1889-1893) and the journals composed during his annual summer holidays in Eastbourne. The diaries record Carroll's ongoing efforts to define the kinds of domestic intimacies that were possible between men and girls; the novel likewise explores the various relationships that could connect adults with children – familial, spiritual, romantic, and sexual. The volume of evidence contained in these sources, which amount to thousands of pages, has to be examined quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Carroll’s increasingly energetic and experimental attempts to structure and legitimise his desires through writing is itself a form of evidence, one that is cumulative and suggestive rather than singular and definitive. This evidence points to an erotic obsession with children that was unsettling even by the standards of his own time.

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 1d

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The Cow Who Fell In The Canal (1995)

YouTube video by Aaron Limbaugh

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 1d

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 1d

Almost every reader of "The Hunting of the Snark" thinks that the hunting party consists of 10 Snark hunters. How unhinged is the opinion that there are only 9 hunters in Lewis Carroll's Snark tragicomedy?

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 1d

(I am too lazy to correct the mistake(s?) in my previous post.)

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Shoddy @shoddyboots.bsky.social · 4d

My favourite thing is to look at something and say "huh".

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The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · 1d

Something to look at and to say “huh”. It’s a finding also mentioned by a curator of the British Museum (bm.snrk.de).

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 1d

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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Three 150th Snark anniversaries – The Hunting of the Snark

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 1d

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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Three 150th Snark anniversaries – The Hunting of the Snark

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 3d

That quote is not by Lewis Carroll. It’s by George Harrison, but probably inspired by Lewis Carroll.

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The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · Sep 16

I am hunting the Snark. My main hunting grounds are Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". The shortlink bm.snrk.de leads you to my most important finding.

https://snrk.de

https://snrk.de/page_elizabeth-i/ describes the images shown in this picture.

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 3d

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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Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sbrxh/

See also:
https://snrk.de/snark-radio-play/

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 3d

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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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 3d

"... ‘Really, now you ask me,’ said Alice, very much confused, ‘I don’t think—’

‘Then you shouldn’t talk,’ said the Hatter.

This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off ..."

(snrk.de/Gutenberg/Al...)

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 4d

That quote is by George Harrison, but probably inspired by Lewis Carroll.

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 6d

Until January 2020: web.archive.org/web/20150924...

After January 2020: news.artnet.com/art-world/wa...

Artnet is dishonest too. The removed photo wasn't just "unauthenticated". It was a fake!

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924105436/https://news.artnet.com/art-world/was-lewis-carroll-a-pedophile-his-photographs-suggest-so-237222

Fake photo of Lewis Carroll kissing Alice Liddell used in an Artnet article

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/was-lewis-carroll-a-pedophile-his-photographs-suggest-so-237222

"UPDATE: August 24, 2020: An earlier version of this article contained an unauthenticated photograph of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell."

"Unauthenticated"? Artnet dishonestly did not admit that I asked them several times to remove that fake photo. It took them several reminders to do that.

Assemblage by David O’Kane, 2005

The image has three sources:
(1) Portrait (1856) by Reginald Southey.
(2) CLD’s photo (1860) of the three Liddell sisters.
(3) Photo showing O’Kanes own features.

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 6d

news.artnet.com/art-world/wa...

The article contains a big mistake: The nude photo is curated by the Musée Cantini in Marseilles. The BBC dishonestly failed to report, that the curators won't confirm that it has been taken by Lewis Carroll. They also won't confirm that it depicts Lorina Liddell.

Was Lewis Carroll a Pedophile? His Photographs Suggest So | Artnet News

The discovery of a shocking image in Lewis Carroll's photograph collection has cast a huge doubt on whether his intense interest in children was innocent.

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 6d

Fortunately there is good research:
Katherine Wakely-Mulroney, "The Man Who Loved Children: Lewis Carroll Studies’ Evidence Problem, Journal of the History of Sexuality", University of Texas Press, Volume 30, Number 3, pp. 335-362, 2021-09

www.academia.edu/67147027/The...

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 8d

From #LewisCarroll 's #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

See also: snrk.de/page_the-oce...

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.

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