the hunting of the snark

Fitfully illustrating Lewis Carroll & other graphic agonies

Monday, May 25, 2015

Brother Sun, Sister Snark

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After all that hellish ruckus in the infernal Malbowge of Fit the Fourth (sorcerers, falsifiers, circus folk and publishers), we shall n...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

The Greatest Snark on Earth!

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Greatest Show on Earth is not to be found under some ratty canvas tent reeking of elephant dung and stale p...
Monday, April 27, 2015

The Fellowship of the Snark

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We continue with Fit the Fourth of my GN version of The Hunting of the Snark (or as I like to call it, my Precious) … The story so fa...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

It was a bright cold day in April, and the snarks were striking thirteen

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Dear readers and fellow Snark Hunters: I've been remiss in updating this on-going exegesis of my GN version of The Hunting of the ...
Monday, February 2, 2015

The only possible snark hunter is oneself

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It was probable that Lewis Carroll never intended for us to have any notion of what actually went on behind the scenes of his Snark Hunt....
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Monday, January 19, 2015

I'm no artist, but I know what I snark

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What a Nonsensical treat we have for you, dear reader! A hearty quatrain of Lewis Carroll’s finest Snark vintage embellished with a festi...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Zen and the Art of Snark Maintenance

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Judging from both the Barrister’s exasperated demeanour (played here by the Eminent Continental Steamer, Martin Heidegger) and from the g...
Monday, January 5, 2015

The snarking of the hunt

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The circus-like atmosphere of  this  Snark hunt has turned dangerous, dangerous to a degree that Lewis Carroll would certainly never coun...
Monday, December 29, 2014

The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the snark!

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The alert reader will notice that I’ve taken the liberty of transporting Lewis Carroll’s Snark Hunt into a tautological circus ring, repl...
Monday, December 15, 2014

They that go down to the sea in snarks

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Huzzah! England expects the Bellman to insert his bell into his right eye. The Bellman promptly complies! Some readers might insinuate th...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Snarkness at noon

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Our favorite poet and Eminent Victorian Lewis Carroll has given us the late 19th-century equivalent of certain ubiquitious American psych...
Monday, November 24, 2014

He rode a blazing saddle, he wore a shining snark …

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A reiteration of the  Snarkic Galdor  … a type of verse-charm first overheard by the poet Lewis Carroll whilst sipping his tea and mental...
Monday, November 17, 2014

The Great White Snark

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We have already nibbled upon — and spurned! —  Beatrice Hatch’s assertion  that Lewis Carroll had told her that the word  Snark  was a po...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

Careful with that snark, Eugene

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There comes a time when even poets such as the Talented Mister Lewis Carroll draw a blank, as the saying goes. Yet such deficiencies seem...
Monday, October 27, 2014

The Fellowship of the Snark

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These headless anapaests of Lewis Carroll rollick onwards in their frolicksome procession and who are we to deny their cantering allure? ...
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Monday, October 20, 2014

Wu Tang Snark

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False pretences are the bane of modern life or so I’m told. Although Lewis Carroll seems to have composed here an entire poem devolving en...
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