the hunting of the snark

The story so far … the Snark stands accused of Bad Taste, Poor Timing and now — Humorlessness! The Bellman’s  Indictment of the Snark  see...

The Bellman continues his Exposition of the Snark with a second accusation — Sloth!* We illustrate his text with this shameless, paranoiac...

The uncooked flesh of the Snark was sufficient for our more distant ancestors but today’s gastronomes must have their Snark curried, tando...

We have arrived now at the very  omnium  of Fit the Second, that critical portion of  The Hunting of the Snark  in which the author descri...

There are those who might quibble and look askance at my rather ideologically vacant interpretation of this stanza. Yes, it is a trifle ir...

The  Shakespearean quotation  will be familiar to all poetical and political earmongers. The Bellman has been depicted in the definitive R...

Jokes kept for a season of woe, an almost biblical undertaking on the part of the Bellman, whose storehouse of mirth has been sorely deple...

All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely Snark hunters: they have their exits and their entrances; and one Bellman in his ...

Another wordless sighting of the HMS Snark, observed tacking ‘round the Bonnet-Maker, whose resemblance to Friedrich Nietzsche borders...

In a world without words, only the small-minded will be tongue-tied. Although our gallant crew aboard the  HMS Snark  is none of the above...

And so, even the least of the Bellman's hopes shall be occidentally disoriented. What wind blew you hither, noble Bellman? Not the ill...

As the nurturing, endlessly comforting snows of Québec numb the extremities  chez snarque,  we have ample time to reflect upon the old ada...

Eugène Delacroix pooh-poohed maritime disasters and English literature, both of them subjects dear to a Snark hunter's heart … "…...

Happy Boxing Day from the management of Snark Island.

Yet another  shameless Magritte pastiche,  and not the last one to grace these pages, I'll wager. Shameless — the 10th Muse of Protosu...

The original illustration by Holiday  of this Universal Map is, to be honest, a bit trite. It's obvious that the poor man was trying t...