Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Fit Two, Page 16, Panel 2 … truly, my Snark, thou art still the son of morn in weary night’s decline, the lost traveller’s dream under the hill

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"The fifth is ambition. It next will be right To describe each particular batch: Distinguishing those that have feathers, and bite, ...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Fit Two, Page 16, Panel 1 … most of life’s evils arise from man's inability to sit still in a bathing-machine

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"The fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines, Which it constantly carries about, And believes that they add to the beauty of scenes...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Fit Two, Pages 14 and 15 as a Spread … Que voyez-vous? Une snarque. De quelle couleur est cette snarque? Snarque.

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Frodo had his Mordor, Batman had his Gotham City, J. Alfred Prufrock had his Floors of Silent Seas and I have … pages 14 and 15. But we are ...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Fit Two, Page 15, Panel 4 … belgium, man, belgium!

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"The third is its slowness in taking a jest. Should you happen to venture on one, It will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed: ...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Fit Two, Page 15, Panel 3 … tiffin at breakfasties

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"Its habit of getting up late you'll agree That it carries too far, when I say That it frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock te...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Fit Two, Page 15, Panel 2 … Weep on! and as thy sorrows flow, I’ll taste the luxury of Snark

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"Let us take them in order. The first is the taste, Which is meager and hollow, but crisp: Like a coat that is rather too tight in the ...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Fit Two, Page 15, Panel 1 … let him that hath understanding count the number of the Snark

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"We have sailed many weeks, we have sailed many days, (Seven days to the week I allow), But a Snark, on the which we might lovingly gaz...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Fit Two, Page 14, Panel 3 … under the spreading Boojum tree I sold you & you sold me

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"We have sailed many months, we have sailed many weeks, (Four weeks to the month you may mark), But never as yet ('tis your Captain...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Fit Two, Page 14, Panel 2 … for the Bellman is an honourable man;

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He served out some grog with a liberal hand, And bade them sit down on the beach: And they could not but own that their Captain looked gran...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Fit Two, Page 14, Panel 1 … 'cause my heart belongs to dada

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The Bellman perceived that their spirits were low, And repeated in musical tone Some jokes he had kept for a season of woe — But the crew wo...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Fit Two, Pages 12 and 13 as a Spread … il est toujours préférable de ne pas dessiner avec un mort

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The languid pacing and incongruous imagery of this Fit, exemplified in the cunningly delineated page-spread seen above, is a perfect example...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Fit Two, Page 13, Panel 2 … heppy heppy valentine, dagnab it!

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But the danger was past — they had landed at last, With their boxes, portmanteaus, and bags: Yet at first sight the crew were not pleased wi...
Thursday, February 7, 2008

Fit Two, Page 13, Panel 1 … also sprach das Schnark

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Another wordless sighting of the HMS Snark, observed tacking ‘round the Bonnet-Maker, whose resemblance to Friedrich Nietzsche borders upon ...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Fit Two, Page 12, Panel 3 … the vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse but limited

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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...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Fit Two, Page 12, Panel 2 … English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal water ...

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January 27th, 1832 is the birthday of Charles Dodgson, who passed away January 14th, 1898. The former preceded the latter, as befits an Emin...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Fit Two, Page 12, Panel 1 … oh, my decacephalic, clochetic captain

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