Monday, August 25, 2014

The Snark From Another Planet

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The crossing of international frontiers whilst engaged in the hot pursuit of a Snark is no excuse for antisocial behaviour  We see here ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

The Mystery of Edwin Druid

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Oh, you silly, mad, impetuous boy of a Bellman, of course you’ve heard it before! Your sense of exactitude may be lacking but as we shall...
Monday, August 11, 2014

I, Snark

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Do not mistake this infamous stanza as a magical refrain or prescription designed by Lewis Carroll to assist the B-Boyz in their Snark hu...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Apeneck Snarky

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It is an undeniably Gradgrindish Fact that of all the commentaries which I’ve made on my GN version of   The H unting of the Snark,  the ...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Snark in the Time of Cholera

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Yes, yes, yes, that’s all very well, dear reader … aren’t you clever to have remembered that Lewis Carroll’s colleague, Charles Lutwidge ...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Beneath the Planet of the Snarks

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The story so far … there once was a Snark … but it will be a Boojum, alas! The Baker is suffering from what we now know to be angst. Once...
Monday, July 14, 2014

To snark or not to snark, that is the question

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Achtung literati! Avoid any authors unwilling to suffer their own characters’ fate. Eschew the likes of Samuel Beckett and whomever was b...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

When Adam snarked and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

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Martin Gardner, in his indispensible Annotated Snark, cites Eric Partridge’s assertion that the Baker’s use of antediluvian is "o...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Beware of Snarks baring Greeks!

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They roused him with muffins — they roused him with ice — They roused him with mustard and cress — They roused him with jam and judici...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Metaphysical graffitti from a leaden snark zeppelin

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The Baker,  immer très über-courant,  now practises  psychogeography   upon himself! Psychogeography — the urban flâneur’s deliberate ma...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Cinema Paradiso Snarkiano

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This on-going analysis of my GN version of  THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK  is still wending its way through the anapestic speed bumps of Fit t...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Also sprach … Snark!

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This on-going analysis of my GN version of  The Hunting of the Snark  is still wending its way through the anapestic plumbing of Fit the ...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

Jonathan Livingston Snark

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This on-going analysis of my GN version of  The Hunting of the Snark  is still wending its way through the anapestic plumbing of Fit the ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Is that a snark in your pants or are you just glad to see me?

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This on-going analysis of my GN version of  The Hunting of the Snark  is still wending its way through the anapestic root-canal of Fit th...
Monday, May 12, 2014

I am the Egg-Man, goo goo goo boojum

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This on-going analysis of my GN version of The Hunting of the Snark  is still wending its way through the anapestic root-canal of Fit the...