the hunting of the snark

"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: an...

He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A...

The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies — Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! Such solemnity, too! One could see he was ...

The most astute reader will have noted that five weeks have elapsed with nary a quotation nor quip from The Hunting of the Snark. What does...

The Bellman's speech is of that particular British provenance yclept "fruity". Not so much "plummy" but rather … ...

What is surrealism? The simultaneous memory of everything . What is protosurrealism? The same as above with the added frisson of remembering...

Declaimed by a drowsy Beaver at the stern of the HMS Snark as it drifts through the somnambulant equatorial swamps … simian caterwaulings an...

Words, words, words! There's not going to be any of 'em in this drawing and besides, the Beaver seldom knows what to say anyway. The...

What was Surrealism? An escape into perpetual dreams, perpetual revolution, perpetual reinvention, perpetual renewal through the device of t...

Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day, Whenever the Butcher was by, The Beaver kept looking the opposite way, And appeared unaccountably ...

Snarkologists everywhere can rejoice at the September 22nd arrival of LEOPOLD SINGH, a beamish specimen of a young man and a splendid joint ...

The Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure A second-hand dagger-proof coat — So the Baker advised it — and next, to insure Its l...

The Beaver, who happened to hear the remark, Protested, with tears in its eyes, That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark Could atone f...

He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared, When the ship had been sailing a week, He could only kill Beavers. The Bellman looked scared, An...

The last of the crew needs especial remark, Though he looked an incredible dunce: He had just one idea — but, that one being "Snark,...

Meaning, meaning, meaning, nor any drop to think! Bad punnery must be excused, for The Meaning Of It All is a weighty burden for any one to ...