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Mainly about Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark"

by @goetzkluge.bsky.social

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I don't know whether this applies to Trump&Mamdani. Or is there a similarity in that in Henry Holiday's illustrations the Butcher wears a beaver fur cap?

Mamdani is smart enough to know an utterly evil person like the Republican felon has no real friends (and won't get any).

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November 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Here it is: snrk.de/snarkhunt.
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In 2005, David O'Kane doctored a photo which then depicted Alice Liddell kissing Lewis Carroll. His assemblage combines elements from
※ a photographic portrait (1856) of C.L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) taken by Reginald Southey and
※ C.L. Dodgson's photo (1860) of the three Liddell sisters.
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Have there been previous presidents who exercised their power like Trump? Was countervailance in the US ever as weak as it is today? I really don't know.

Associating Trumps behavior with the behavior of a king in gold plated state halls can be disputed ad rem, but I won't call it "dumb".
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Then a scream, shrill and high, rent the shuddering sky,
 And they knew that some danger was near:
The Beaver turned pale to the tip of its tail,
 And even the Butcher felt queer.

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November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Thanks to a reddit comment (www.reddit.com/r/etymology/...) by SagebrushandSeafoam I learned about 'A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue' (dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/s...) which shows that the term "snark" already was used in 1585.
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Good that you didn't attribute that to Lewis Carroll.

Here is an original Carroll quote:
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
«At last the Dodo said, ‘Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’»:
snrk.de/Gutenberg/Al....

C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) didn't like voting systems where the winners get all the prizes. He favorized prizes with proportional sizes for all candidates:
archive.org/details/TheP....
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
How about Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark"? Try to be open to the idea that there might be only 9 Snark hunters, not 10: snrk.de/boots-bonnet....
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe that it is possible - Lewis Carroll"

That quote surely is a popular quote in the Internet, but better don't get it tatooed on your skin.

As for original Carroll quotes, there is something better (also for tattoos):
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
For those who feel uncomfortable reading Lewis Carroll's work, I recommend "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt). There are no girls among the humans in that tragicomedy. In one of Henry Holiday's Snark illustrations, however, you'll find the allegorical ladies "Care" and "Hope".
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Was C. L. Dodgson a pest to Alice Liddell? The issues he had are described by Katherine Wakely-Mulroney in "The Man Who Loved Children: Carroll Studies’ Evidence Problem", Journal of the History of Sexuality, Univ. of Texas Press, Vol. 30, № 3, pp. 335-362, 2021-09, www.academia.edu/67147027/The...
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Wilfred Longley Dodgson (1838-1914)

Arbre genealògic: lewiscarrollresources.net/dodgsonfamil...
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Ranaroth, as you are interested in book covers, you might like Henry Holiday's book cover illustrations (he engraved them himself) to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".

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November 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The way "The Hunting of the Snark" is told by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Henry Holiday allows the readers to decide whether there are 10 or only 9 Snark hunters. But only a few readers understood that.

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November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Original quote: «‘I could tell you my adventures — beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’» (snrk.de/Gutenberg/Al...)

#Quote #DailyQuotes #QuotesForLife
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Reading Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt) can be helpful too.
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Rethinking the Snark

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November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Alice at nauseam. Let's celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt) in 2026.
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
There is more than Alice.

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November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
That photo is in the archives of the Musée Cantini in Marseilles. The curators won't confirm that the photo depicts Lorena Liddell, and they even won't confirm that Dodgson took the photo.

See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_C...
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
There is more:

4. Everything Everywhere All at Once (movie)

She followed one of my old (now hibernating) Twitter accounts (Snark150). But when I didn't agree to her scathing criticizm of "Everything Everywhere All at Once", she blocked my account.
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
More about Carroll's Snark cameo: snrk.de/lewis-carroll/
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The BBC probably didn't get it. Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" is a masterpiece which deserves more attention.

(At least a curator of the British Museum understood Henry Holiday's game: bm.snrk.de)
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The Oxford Spectator
#OxfordSpectator
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM