the hunting of the snark

Readers expecting graphic Snark on this holiday posting will be disappointed; I have to confess that I'm too pooped to come up wit...

“’Tis the note of the Jubjub! Keep count, I entreat; You will find I have told it you twice. ‘Tis the song of the Jubjub! The proof is compl...

“’Tis the voice of the Jubjub!” he suddenly cried. (This man, that they used to call “Dunce.”) “As the Bellman would tell you,” he added wi...

  He thought of his childhood, left far far behind — That blissful and innocent state — The sound so exactly recalled to his mind A pencil ...

  Cher s lecteurs, je suis ravi de vous annoncer  la parution d e mon BD, La Chasse au Snark — en français!   Grâce aux Editio...

Then a scream, shrill and high, rent the shuddering sky, And they knew that some danger was near: The Beaver turned pale to the tip of its t...

But the valley grew narrow and narrower still, And the evening got darker and colder, Till (merely from nervousness, not from goodwill) They...

Each thought he was thinking of nothing but “Snark” And the glorious work of the day; And each tried to pretend that he did not remark That ...

But the very same plan to the Beaver occurred: It had chosen the very same place: Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word, The disgust tha...

Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan For making a separate sally; And fixed on a spot unfrequented by man, A dismal and desolate val...

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; ...

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

The Beaver, who happened to hear the remark, Protested, with tears in its eyes, That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark Could atone...

Hunting Snark is a graphic exercise in agony … let's take a closer look at the Butcher, a crucial "rain-maker" in ...

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, An...

The illustration of these two stanzas has completely exhausted my remaining brain-worker abilities. Purchasing insurance ...