The proprietor and master voleur at Biblioklept, Edwin Turner, has very kindly posted a lengthy interview he did of me on the subject of turning Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark into a GN … big, gallumphing ideas are bandied about, such as Gateway Surrealism …
"It’s hard to illustrate an idea and oddly enough, the Snark is really a poem of ideas, couched in the form of a tragic epic and then declaimed by a master comedian … I wanted to avoid … doing literal drawings of the scenes in it.
I wanted the Snark to constantly bring up a stream of associations, references, insinuations, all of them triggering more and faster allusions, what I call a Gateway Surrealism that leaves readers hopelessly addicted and desperate for more! Don’t say no, kids!"
For more, go here …
Mahendra! So good to hear from you! I love this snark stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sommer, And I'm glad you are having the "integrated internet presence" over at the Rumpus, where readers who need a laugh are urged to check out your latest list of funny things women do in rok (pace, Lou Stathis)
ReplyDeletecheck it out here:
http://therumpus.net/2010/12/funny-women-40-music-quiz/
let me get that URL right:
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Nice gateway to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. They got the bird, not the Snark (but a Boojum?). That adds to Henry Holiday's Gateway to Gustave Doré.
ReplyDeleteGustave Doré is a name which is held in the highest regard by this Snark Hunter! What an amazing, theatrical talent!
ReplyDeleteI thought that my Snark hunt has ended. Of course I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteGötz, your snark hunt will never end! It is mathemtically & logically impossible for it to end … in fact, I think you are on a Möbius-strip path.
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