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From #LewisCarroll 's #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

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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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#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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snarkhunt.bsky.social The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · May 22
«“You may charge me with murder—or want of sense—
(We are all of us weak at times):
But the slightest approach to a false pretence
Was never among my crimes!»

(Said by the "Baker" - Thomas Cranmer? - in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark")

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We are all of us weak at times Anne Boleyn, beheaded, 1536 Catherine Howard, beheaded, 1542 Joan Bocher, burned at the stake, 1550 Anna Cantiana, burned at the stake, 1550 In The Hunting of the Snark, the Baker (possibly a reference to Thomas Cranmer) conceded: 241 “You may charge me with murder – or want of sense – 242 (We are all of us weak at times): 243 But the slightest approach to a false pretence 244 Was never among my crimes! …” -------------------------------------------------------------- Executed under Henry VIII and Edward VI: Thomas Marshall, Abbot of Colchester, resisted Henry VIII break with Rome, d. 1539. Edward Powell, Welsh Roman Catholic priest, resisted Henry VIII. d. 1540 – one of 3 Catholics and 3 Protestants who all suffered together. Thomas Bowldry, wealthy farmer, rebel executed by Edwardian Protestant regime, d. 1549. Henry Joys, vicar, rebel executed by Edwardian Protestant regime, d. 1549. James Webbe, vicar, rebel executed by Edwardian Protestant regime, d. 1549. Source of lower list: manyheadedmonster.wordpress.com
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The Hunting of the Snark
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#TheHuntingOfTheSnark

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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
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Whoever owns Yoda, they don't own Henry Holiday's depiction of the Baker's Uncle in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876).

My favorite Snark theme for the Firexox browser: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo....
Image source: https://snrk.de/firefox-snark-theme/#DarkSnark2 Keys: TheHuntingOfTheSnark | HenryHoliday | LewisCarroll | no copyright | Yoda | Stuart Freeborn (creator of the Yoda puppet) | StuartFreeborn | StarWars | Star Wars
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Time "never will look at a bribe" (snrk.de/snarkhunt/#385). I think that the "Jubjub" in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" stands for "time".

#JubJub #LewisCarroll #TheHuntingOfTheSnark
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Henry Holiday looked behind the surface of John Martin's rocks.
[main image]: John Martin, "The Bard" (ca. 1817); modified using GIMP: grey shaded rendering, contrast enhanced in the rock area. [lower inset]: Henry Holiday's illustration (1876) engraved by Joseph Swain to the chapter "The Beaver’s Lesson" in Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark", detail. [upper inset]: Detail from preperatory draft by Henry Holiday. playing with pareidolia | pareidolic interpretation | HenryHoliday | TheHuntingOfTheSnark | TheBard | buttocks | bum See also: https://snrk.de/page_the-bard/
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#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #UpsideDown #UpsideDownMap #UKmap #MapOfUK #ukmaps #britainmap #MapOfEngland #BritishIsles #LewisCarroll
https://snrk.de/starry-map/ https://snrk.de/starry-map/
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Elegante y muy cuidada edición de #TheHuntingOfTheSnark de #LewisCarroll en traducción al euskera de Manu López Gaseni, publicada por @Pamielaetxea. 🔔📷💥

https://www.pamiela.com/index.php/42-prensa/noticias/1630-snarkaren-ehizan-aurkezpena 🏆
January 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM Everybody can reply
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If Lewis Carroll chose "Boots" as a portmanteau for "Bonnets" and "Hoods" (zirk.us/@snarkology/...), then there might be only 9 Snark hunters in "The Hunting of the Snark", not 10 (snrk.de/page_boots-b...).

#portmanteau #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll
see https://snrk.de/page_boots-bonnetmaker/
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Charles Darwin, born on 12 February 1809, became one of the most important Snark hunters in history.

#OTD #CharlesDarwin #HMSbeagle #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

The hunting of the Snark with Charles Darwin:
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Charles Darwin, born on 12 February 1809, became one of the most important Snark hunters in history. #OTD #CharlesDarwin #HMSbeagle #TheHuntingOfTheSnark The hunting of the Snark with Charles Darwin: https://snrk.de/snark-hunting-with-charles-darwin/. --------------------------------------------------- ※ HMS Beagle & Snark Assemblage ※ Carroll and Science (by Mark R. Richards) ※ Henry Holiday’s Boojum ※ Vivisection ※ Breakfast at five-o’clock tea & Charles Darwin in Tahiti ※ Forks ※ Tree of Life ※ Crossing the Line ※ Darwin’s Study ※ One of the Beagle‘s Chronometers ※ The Expression of Emotions ※ Charles Darwin and the Snark ---------------------------------------------------
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150 Years of Snark
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@harininagendra.bsky.social, as for satellite images (mentioned in your PhD thesis): there is one on the left side of the #sidebyside image below.

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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.
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#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?
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.
September 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM Everybody can reply
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#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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Trying to watch 480p upscaled to 4k is painful.
I'm glad we're watching it for the music makes it tolerable.
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LiveConcert
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM Everybody can reply
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Thrifted this copy of #LewisCarroll 's #TheHuntingoftheSnark 📖 The price sticker on the DJ was ripped in an unfortunate place 😬 So I doodled him perched on a Snark of his own 😅 #defacing books 🤷‍♀️📖✍️🏽🎨🎨🎨
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The Snark has five marks.

«The fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines,
　 Which it constantly carries about,
And believes that they add to the beauty of scenes —
　 A sentiment open to doubt.»

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #BathingMachine #Oxford #ChristChurch

(snrk.de/the-new-belfry).
Driven by Dean Henry George Liddel (Oxford Christ Church College), the New Belfry project started in 1872. Rev. C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) compared the design of a temporary belfry of Oxford Christ Church College to the design of bathing-machines. For details go to bathingmachine.snrk.de/.
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Religion and Liberty, Care and Hope
(snrk.de/page_eagle-a...)

“ ‘You may seek it with thimbles — and seek it with care;
You may hunt it with forks and hope;
You may threaten its life with a railway-share;
You may charm it with smiles and soap —’ ”
Details: https://snrk.de/eagle-and-star/ and https://snrk.de/page_eagle-and-star/ «When I sent Mr. Dodgson the sketch of the hunting, in which I had personified Hope and Care — “They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care, They pursued it with forks and hope” — he wrote that he admired the figures, but that they interfered with the point, which consisted in the mixing up of two meanings of the word “with.” I replied, “Precisely, and I intended to add a third — ‘in company with’ — and so develop the point.” This view he cordially accepted, and the ladies were admitted.» Henry Holiday: "The Snark’s Significance", THE ACADEMY, Jan. 29, 1898 ※ https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/HenryHoliday_TheSnarksSignificance__searchable.pdf ※ https://snrk.de/the-snarks-significance/ ※ https://snrk.de/page_eagle-and-star/ ※ https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#201 Keys: The Hunting of the Snark | TheHuntingoftheSnark | Lewis Carroll | LewisCarroll | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson | CharlesLutwidgeDodgson | allegory | allegories | Religion and Liberty | Care and Hope
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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
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
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150 Years of Snark
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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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#OTD #OnThisDay #LewisCarroll #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was born on January 27th, 1832. In my view, "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt) is his and Henry Holiday's masterpiece.

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

#Yoda #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

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snark150.bsky.social 150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · Jan 26
Whoever owns Yoda, they don't own Henry Holiday's depiction of the Baker's Uncle in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876).

My favorite Snark theme for the Firexox browser: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo....
Image source: https://snrk.de/firefox-snark-theme/#DarkSnark2 Keys: TheHuntingOfTheSnark | HenryHoliday | LewisCarroll | no copyright | Yoda | Stuart Freeborn (creator of the Yoda puppet) | StuartFreeborn | StarWars | Star Wars
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#snarking (1866)
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark (1876)
#snark
#snarky
"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/
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Source: https://snrk.de/page_the-bard/ The Hunting Of The Snark | Henry Holiday | Lewis Carroll | John Martin | The Bard | TheHuntingOfTheSnark | HenryHoliday | LewisCarroll | JohnMartin | TheBard | SnarkHunting
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From my Mike Batt pages: snrk.de/mike-batts-s....

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#TheHuntingOfTheSnark
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An English School painting (ca. 1610, by an unknown painter) of #Queen_Elizabeth_I at old age (snrk.de/time/) and Henry Holiday's back cover illustration to #LewisCarroll's tragicomedy #TheHuntingOfTheSnark (snrk.de/page_elizabe...).
https://snrk.de/page_elizabeth-i/
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