the hunting of the snark

This artist’s recent entry in Will Schofeld’s Rousselian contest (accompanying text is here ) will have to make do for today’s Snarkian mus...

The news of Martin Gardner’s death on May 22nd, 2010 marks the end to a spectacular era in not only Snarkian but Carrollian studies, perhap...

The above drawing from Fit the Sixth, the Barrister’s Dream, is suffused with the gentle melody of protracted litigation, the dream of every...

The Machines rule, their word is law and their rendition of The Hunting of the Snark is nonsense of the highest order — nonsense without a ...

They say that the sleep of reason produces monsters but what does the sleep of monsters produce? The denizens of Alice’s Wonderland and the ...

We already had a rousing go at Dante Alighieri a while back, using good ol’ Witold Gombrowicz in his customary role as the curmudgeonly cudg...

Certain readers have characterized my recent posts as being “the same old rubbish … regurgitated over and over like a hamster in a wheel” an...

After spending ten weeks focusing upon each of the Snark Hunters in their turn, it is time to turn our attention to She Who Must Be Obeyed* ...

We return to our Snark Hunt, tanned, rested & ready after imbibing deeply of the heady Carrollian brew that was on tap at the LCSNA Spr...

After much delay, probably intended to elicit sensations of apprehension and excitement on someone’s trembling, custardy part, we are confro...

The final, still anonymous, member of the Fellowship of the Snark, the mysterious Number Ten, is on the edge of the verge of probably taking...

Keep ‘em guessing was the motto of Lewis Carroll and nowhere does he keep the panting mob howling for more than in the slo-mo introduction o...

The Admirable Mister Carroll would have his little surprises for The Hunting of the Snark certainly seems nothing but surprises. Of course,...

Cry havoc and let slip the hunters of Snark! Eschewing your petty considerations of "written texts" and "logic" we slide...

For the past few weeks, we have been dishing up the dirt on each of the ten members of the Fellowship of the Snark. This week’s dish is the ...

We continue our on-going exposé of the Fellowship of the Snark with the Banker … … a Banker, engaged at enormous expense, Had the whole of t...