the hunting of the snark

"For England expects — I forbear to proceed: ‘Tis a maxim tremendous, but trite: And you’d best be unpacking the things that you need T...

"For the Snark’s a peculiar creature, that won’t Be caught in a commonplace way. Do all that you know, and try all that you don’t: Not ...

"To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care; To pursue it with forks and hope; To threaten its life with a railway-share; To charm ...

"The rest of my speech" (he explained to his men) "You shall hear when I’ve leisure to speak it. But the Snark is at hand, ...

The above page-spread serves as a perfect visual embellishment to my delightful experiences at the LCSNA meeting last Saturday! We see above...

"’Tis a pitiful tale," said the Bellman, whose face Had grown longer at every word: "But, now that you’ve stated the whole of...

"I said it in Hebrew — I said it in Dutch — I said it in German and Greek: But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is w...

"You may charge me with murder — or want of sense — (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence W...

"It’s excessively awkward to mention it now— As I think I’ve already remarked." And the man they called "Hi!" replied, w...

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...