the hunting of the snark

The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you’d spoken before! It’s excessively awkward to mention it now, With the Sn...

Overheard in a publisher's office … An Editor: So, this Snark epic you’re pitching, it’s great but we’d like to suggest some minor chang...

After a successful hunting, one is always left with the remains of the dead, even in Lewis Carroll’s genteel, literary world. In this, the f...

"But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day, In a moment (of this I am sure), I shall softly and suddenly vanish away — And the notion ...

"I engage with the Snark — every night after dark — In a dreamy delirious fight: I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes, And I ...

"It is this, it is this — " "We have had that before!" The Bellman indignantly said. And the Baker replied "Let me ...

Of course, we all know that paranoia is the distilled essence of our postlapsarian times, simply observe this page spread heaped high with i...

" 'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! For then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And ne...

("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold In a hasty parenthesis cried, "That's exactly the way I have always be...

" '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 rai...

Dear readers, this Snark Hunt must pause for a week whilst we regain our strength by taking the waters (and beers) at Festung Schnark-Sud, ...

"He remarked to me then," said that mildest of men, " 'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right: Fetch it home by all mean...

Amidst the spread of these pages, we are lost in the gutter but shall look to the stars … We are drawing the pictures of the pictures of th...

"A dear uncle of mine (after whom I was named) Remarked, when I bade him farewell —" "Oh, skip your dear uncle!" the Bel...

"I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, And proceed without further remark To the day when you took me aboard of your ship...

"My father and mother were honest, though poor —" Skip all that!" cried the Bellman in haste. "If it once becomes dark, ...