the hunting of the snark

In a world without words, only the small-minded will be tongue-tied. Although our gallant crew aboard the HMS Snark is none of the above, t...

January 27th, 1832 is the birthday of Charles Dodgson, who passed away January 14th, 1898. The former preceded the latter, as befits an Emin...

A quick-thinking Silesian photographer captures the rare spectacle of a school of puppetfish ( Puppespielen bellmerensis* ) disporting thems...

Shhhhhh, we’re hunting Snark! We have been tracking a magnificent specimen for over eight months and I think we have it cornered now, here i...

This New Year's Eve greeting from all of us at chez snarque will not only convey our best wishes for your future prosperity and happine...

Snark hunting is passé this festive week, this being a time of general goodwill and peace on earth, etc. Hunting anything with forks and hop...

But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind ble...

He was thoughtful and grave — but the orders he gave Were enough to bewilder a crew. When he cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her he...

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, An...

"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...