the hunting of the snark

Fitfully illustrating Lewis Carroll & other graphic agonies

Friday, July 30, 2010

Snarks of the world, unite!

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More sentimental verse from the Admirable Carroll, who knew full well how to tug at the heartstrings of his Victorian audience with the most...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Give me your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched Snarks of your teeming shore

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A flourish heard off-stage and exeunt all. Thus ends the Lay of the Jubjub and thus ends the Butcher’s knowledge of Natural History. Long-ti...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Looking for Mister Goodsnark

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More Jubjubbery, something about polyhedrons and super-glue and winged insects fleeing the less fashionable bit of the Bible. Readers seekin...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Refudiate the Jabberwock!

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The flavor we are rhapsodizing over is the flavor of a Jubjub Bird and the rhapsodizer is the Butcher, the rhapsodee is his comrade-in-arms,...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

Happy Snark Day, Mister Carroll!

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Today is Snark Day, that auspicious day 136 years ago when Lewis Carroll began composing The Hunting of the Snark and thus, in a semiotic a...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

The word for French in Snark is Jubjub

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Unlike certain countries where local customs require the Jubjub Birds to go about completely covered from head to toes in a swathy waddly so...
Monday, July 12, 2010

A snarkimental education

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We see here a classroom of utterly bored & disinterested students, cunningly disguised as the pixillated denizens of some Boschian versi...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Cry havoc and let slip the ducks of war …

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Too hot and too exhausted by multiple, simultaneous deadlines to do more than limply flutter my pen at you in the hopes that the spray of in...
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

The Tell-Tale Snark

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Some more mathy stuff from that mad mathman sans pareil, the Rev. C.L. Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll to our plucky Fellowship of th...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

Snarkhunter’s Guide to the Universe

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Lewis Carroll would be pleased to learn that scientists have finally confirmed what he had suspected for so long: that the entire cosmos, ev...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Leave no snark behind

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Still talking Jubjub and you’d better pay attention because our lecturer, the Butcher, is explaining it all in a popular style. And just wha...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Felonious monk

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In today’s fast-paced urban lifestyle, even the most ordinary Butcher can demonstrate the mathematical properties of the Song of the Jubjub ...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

The sound of one hand snarking

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Many comix artists posting their work on-line like to liven things up for the kiddies with a bit of well-intended blather concerning Process...
Monday, June 21, 2010

A confederacy of jubjubs

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One can never know too much about Jubjub birds, don’t you agree? They constitute an important nexus in the entire Carrollian Multiverse, occ...
Friday, June 18, 2010

I heard the Jubjub call my name …

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Lewis Carroll compared the voice of the Jubjub to a pencil that squeaks on slate. This is a peculiarity of Carrollian English, the word bein...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

painted jubjub

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The scream referred to above is the legendary Song of the Jubjub, that paradisical bird which figures so prominently in Fit the Fifth of The...
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