home.social

#thehuntingofthesnark — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thehuntingofthesnark, aggregated by home.social.

fetched live
  1. This is about erroneous advertising by rare book sellers who offer 1st editions of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark".

    About «Baker for Butcher on p. 83» (p. 15~16) in "The Snarkologist", Vol. 1, Fit 7, March 2024, p. 15~16, snarkology.net

    The author Alan Tannenbaum wrote: «If you see the above phrase, gently “help” the seller by forwarding this article.» So I mirrored his very helpful article in my blog: snrk.de/baker-for-butcher-on-p.

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

  2. Charles Darwin, born on 12 February 1809, became one of the most important Snark hunters in history.

    #OTD #CharlesDarwin #HMSbeagle #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

    The hunting of the Snark with Charles Darwin:
    snrk.de/snark-hunting-with-cha.

  3. #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll

    Allegorical English School painting (by an unknown artist, ca. 1610) of Queen Elizabeth I at old age. (Location of original painting: Corsham Court, Wiltshire, England, UK)

    Henry Holiday’s back cover illustration (1876) to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark".

    I discovered that in 2010:
    2010: flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/
    2012: flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/
    2013: ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/21
    2014: academia.edu/9984501/Queen_Eli
    2017: snrk.de/page_elizabeth-i/

  4. About William Kaufmann, Inc (publisher of an excellent edition of "The Hunting of the Snark", 1981):
    ※ Founded in 1972: Los Altos, California.
    ※ 1984: Morgan Kaufmann (founder: Michael B. Morgan, William Kauffman). See also: scitechconnect.elsevier.com/in.
    ※ 1998: acquired by Harcourt General, imprint of Academic Press.
    ※ 2001: imprint of #Elsevier.

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

  5. The first “Trade Edition” of “The Hunting of the Snark” published by William Kaufmann Inc in 1981 is an excellent book, but it has four errors: Their errata sheet is in snrk.de/centennial-snark-errat.

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

    (Image source: lewiscarroll.org/product/hunti)

  6. There is a reference to web.archive.org/web/2022052004 (in my Snark blog) in Karen Gardiner’s PhD thesis "A New Evaluation: The Theological Influence of F. D. Maurice on the Imaginative Works of Lewis Carroll" (2022-09).

    See also: snrk.de/article-42-in-the-42-a

    snrk.de is about Henry Holiday's illustrations to "The Hunting of the Snark". There is a clear reference to Thomas Cranmer: snrk.de/faiths-victorie-in-rom

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #KarenGardiner #ThomasCranmer #FDMaurice #EternalDamnation

  7. Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Sarah Gilmore, "Re/searching leadership: A critique in two agonies and nine fits", 2022

    That paper about leadership also is an excellent contribution to the interpretation of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark". I added it to my Snark reading list (snrk.de/papers-and-books/#Lead).

    #Leadership #Management #OrganisationalBehaviour #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday #Snark

  8. Formidable caza del #Snark. Compuesta por Mike Batt y dirigida por él mismo al frente de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Londres en el Royal Albert Hall (1987).

    Con Billy Connolly, Roger Daltrey, Deniece Williams, Julian Lennon, Captain Sensible, Justin Hayward, John Hurt y Midge Ure.

    youtube.com/watch?v=KKitp2gmRa

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll

  9. «There was an old man of Port Grigor,
    Whose actions were noted for vigour;
    He stood on his head
    till his #waistcoat turned red,
    That eclectic old man of Port Grigor.»

    (#EdwardLear, 1872)


    «He was black in the face,
    and they scarcely could trace
    The least likeness to what he had been:
    While so great was his fright
    that his #waistcoat turned white –
    A wonderful thing to be seen!»

    (#LewisCarroll, from “#TheHuntingOfTheSnark”, 1876)

    #limerick #limericks

    See also: snrk.de/waistcoat-poetry/

  10. "Snark Proximity Meter" meme from Simon DaVison's 2023 Snark film. Simon gave me his consent to grab that sequence from his film and to put in public domain.

    GIF: memes.snrk.de
    (redirects to snrk.de/category/snark-taming/)

    See also: instagram.com/p/Cr5uJ4Yqpgi/

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark | #SimonDaVison | #movie | #film | #SnarkMovie | #SnarkFilm | #IndieFilm | #LewisCarroll | #Snark | #SnarkMeme | #meme | #memes | #FriendlyMeme | #FriendlyMemes | #steampunk

  11. The nine characters (snrk.de/page_boots-bonnetmaker) in Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's tragicomedy "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt):
    ※ Bellman
    ※ Boots (maker of Bonnets and Hoods)
    ※ Barrister
    ※ Broker
    ※ Billiard-marker
    ※ Banker
    ※ Beaver
    ※ Baker
    ※ Butcher

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday #SnarkHuntingParty

  12. @claireridgway -- In his #illustration (snrk.de/snarkhunt/#561) to fit#8 of #LewisCarroll's #tragicomedy "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (1876), #HenryHoliday hid a pictorial reference to the print "Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie" (published by Thomas Jenner, c. 1630). The attached image shows
    (1) the print (containing a depiction of #ThomasCranmer's burning) with a comment from a curator of the #BritishMuseum and
    (2) my image comparison.

    More: snrk.de/faiths-victorie-in-rom

  13. Does "But the slightest approach to a false pretence was never among my crimes!" mean that Lewis Carroll ironically lets the Baker confess that telling the truth was a crime which the Baker (Thomas Cranmer) never committed?

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark | #LewisCarroll | #ThomasCranmer

    (snrk.de/page_we-are-all-of-us-)

  14. In "The Hunting of the Snark", Lewis Carroll (Reverend C.L. Dodgson) might have used the "Baker" as a reference to Thomas Cranmer.

    In line 241 the Baker says: "You may charge me with murder..." I think that Carroll had mixed feelings about Cranmer.

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark | #LewisCarroll | #ThomasCranmer | #AnneBoleyn | #CatherineHoward | #JoanBocher | #AnnaCantiana | #martyrs

    (snrk.de/page_we-are-all-of-us-)

  15. #Reading #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #GuideToPrinciplesOfLNPGovernment
    (Alt text provided)

    favourite line: the Captain they trusted so well 
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, 
     And that was to tingle his bell

    ———
    text in pic below (The Bellman’s Speech) is preceded by:

    The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies--
    Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!
    Such solemnity, too! One could see he was wise,
    The moment one looked in his face!

    He had bought a large map representing the sea,
    Without the least vestige of land:
    And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
    A map they could all understand…
    ——
    and just for the fun of it, text in image below is followed (in part) by;

    But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, 
     And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, 
Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East, 
     That the ship would not travel due West!

  16. @TheHuntingOfTheSnark -- The Mastodon server indiefilm.fun seems to be down. So I repeat the content of a toot about Snark films in this comment.

    ---------------------------------------------------
    To be released:

    ※ Simon Davison's Snark: snrk.de/category/artforms/movi
    ※ Michael McNeff's Snark: snrk.de/category/artforms/movi

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark | #movie | #SnarkMovie | #SimonDavison | #MichaelMacNeff

  17. @frankendodo, you know this trophy from my Snark hunt (snrk.de/page_lewis-carroll/) already.

    Left: Segment from a photographic self portrait (May 1875) by #CharlesLutwidgeDodgson (aka #LewisCarroll) in his forties, displayed in mirror view. (Credits for the photo: Watts Gallery, Compton, Guildford)

    Center: Blurred rendering of the segment on the right side.

    Right: Illustration by #HenryHoliday to the chapter "The Beaver’s Lesson" in #LewisCarroll’s "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (1876).

  18. For a special limited edition of "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark#", #IanMortimer was commissioned by Macmillan Publishers to print #HenryHoliday's illustration to #LewisCarroll's tragicomedy from the original wood-engraved blocks. The Holiday illustrations in all nineteenth-century editions were printed from #electrotypes (victorianweb.org/art/illustrat).

    See also: snrk.de/snark-too-dark/

    Image: Segment from screenshot of Ian Mortimer's imimprimit.com/the-hunting-of-

  19. Comparison (made in 2009) posted on Flickr in 2010. (Segment from screenshot from flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/)

    ※ Left: The "Banker" after his encounter with the "#Bandersnatch", depicted in #HenryHoliday’s illustration (woodcut by #JosephSwain) to the chapter "The Banker’s Fate" in #LewisCarroll’s "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (1876).
    ※ Right: A slightly horizontally compressed rendering of "The #Imagebreakers" (1566-1568), an etching by #MarcusGheeraertsTheElder.

    More: snrk.de/knight-letter-links/kl

  20. Comparison posted on Flickr in 2014. (Segment from screenshot from flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/)

    On the left side you see a detail from an illustration by #HenryHoliday to #LewisCarroll’s tragicomedy "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark". I marked four possible references by Henry Holiday to a painting by #WilliamSidneyMount.

    On the right side you see William Sidney Mount’s painting "The #BonePlayer" (1856) in mirror view.

    Explanation in my blog (2017): snrk.de/page_bone-players/

  21. @riggbeck -- In 2026, the Snark will celebrate its 150th anniversary. I hope that until then the full version of Mike Batt's Snark musical will be on the stage (snrk.de/category/artforms/musi).

    #MikeBatt | #musical | #TheHuntingOfTheSnark | #LewisCarroll

  22. I'm at the end of a rabbit hole in search of #LewisCarroll's poem, #TheHuntingOfTheSnark.

    Here is a splendid, restored musical version, recorded at the Albert Hall in 1987. It features #BillyConnolly as the Bellman and #JohnHurt as narrator.

    youtube.com/watch?v=FlXPCAm5nH

    And here's the text:

    poetryfoundation.org/poems/439

    May your Snarks never be Boojums.

  23. @thissorryspacesuit @snarkology -- "This engraving has lost a bit of the subtlety of the painting." That's a very friendly way to describe that reproduction ;-).

    Sorry, as for such reproductions, I don't have more examples. I found that engraving during my Snark hunt:
    ※ zirk.us/@snarkology/1094523629
    ※ snrk.de/page_sphinx/

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark | #ChristInTheHouseOfHisParents | #CarpentersShop | #Millais | #JohnEverettMillais | #PreRaphaelites | #JohnTheBaptist | #Sphinx | #EdwardVIandThePope

  24. Footnotes on page 199 in chapter 7 of #MarysaDemoor‘s book "A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918: Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements", Springer Nature / Palgrave, 2022-03-21.

    For details read my article “Nose is a Nose is a Nose” in the “#KnightLetter”, № 99, Fall 2017, p. 30~31.

    Details: snrk.de/mudscapes-and-artistic

    #MarcusGheeraertsTheElder #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #WilliamSidneyMount #BenjaminDuchenne

  25. There are letter-like patterns in #HenryHoliday's back cover illustration to #LewisCarroll's tragicomedy "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt/#BackCover). Is this #asemic art? Or are these just some lines used by Henry Holiday to draw the foam on the waves?

    See also: snrk.de/page_letters-in-the-wa

    #BookIllustration

  26. ※ Left: The "Banker" after his encounter with the "#Bandersnatch", depicted in #HenryHoliday’s illustration (#woodcut by #JosephSwain) to the chapter "The Banker’s Fate" in #LewisCarroll’s "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (1876).
    ※ Right: A slightly horizontally compressed rendering of "The #Imagebreakers" (1566-1568), an etching by #MarcusGheeraertsTheElder.

    More: snrk.de/flipping-the-nose/

    #Nose #Noses

  27. @snark @destandaard

    The first printing of my own comparison between an illustration by #HenryHoliday to #LewisCaroll's #TheHuntingOfTheSnark and the "Image Breakers" by #MarcusGheeraertsTheElder occurred in 2017.

    Below are images which #MarysaDemoor used in her book "A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918: Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements" (2022).

    The author didn't specify any source.

    See also: snrk.de/mudscapes-and-artistic

  28. «He had bought a large map representing the sea,
     Without the least vestige of land:
    And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
     A map they could all understand.»

    #LewisCarroll’s #TheHuntingOfTheSnark (1876) has been published “with nine #illustrations by #HenryHoliday”. But there are ten illustrations. I suggest that the #OceanChart (aka #Bellman’s #map) is Carroll's design, who then commissioned a #typesetter with making the #PrintingPlate.

    +++ snrk.de/page_the-ocean-chart/ +++

  29. My most important Snark finding (#ReligSnark):
    In his #illustration (snrk.de/snarkhunt/#561) to fit#8 of #LewisCarroll's #tragicomedy "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (1876), #HenryHoliday hid a pictorial reference to the print "Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie" (published by Thomas Jenner, c. 1630). The attached image shows
    (1) the print (containing a depiction of #ThomasCranmer's burning) with a comment from a curator of the #BritishMuseum and
    (2) my image comparison.

    More: snrk.de/faiths-victorie-in-rom

  30. I merged the following_accounts.csv list from @snark (@ mastodon.art) into the following-accounts list of @snarkology (@ zirk.us).

    Mastodon.art is a fine instance for creative artists, but my impression is that zirk.us is the better instance for analyzing art and literature.

    Yet, I do have creations: #FirefoxThemes (snrk.de/firefox-snark-theme/). Among these #themes, addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef is my favorite.

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark (by #LewisCarroll and #HenryHoliday) #StarWars #Yoda #ThisIsNotYoda

  31. @georgetakei -- «In Vonda McIntyre's novelization of : , she reveals that the use of protomatter in the Genesis Device was made possible due to the discovery of sub-elementary particles, which were named by whimsical scientists as "#snarks" and "#boojums".» (Source: manga.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hunt).

    In , The shape of might be a to 's depiction of the Baker's Uncle in 's "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark".

  32. : A toot by @georgetakei made me aware of the univereodon.com instance.

    My focus is on Snark hunting (snrk.de/snark-mastodon/) and a view at the universe through sound science, but as "the kind of person who enjoys edutainment, reads books, watches science shows and loves to connect with people who view the universe through wonder" I probably will feel quite comfortable here.

  33. Left side: Two details from the illustration by #HenryHoliday to the chapter "The Hunting" in #LewisCarroll’s "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (woodcut by #JosephSwain)

    Right side: The 1674 print at #Rijksmuseum depicting William III (#WilliamOfOrange) and the allegorical figures for “religion” and “liberty”, a “#LiberumBelgium” motive.

    Holiday integrated three elements from that 1674 print into his illustration (1876). "Liberty" became "Hope" and "Religion" became "Care" (snrk.de/page_eagle-and-star/).

  34. The last paragraphs of "Life, Eternity,and Everything: Hidden #Eschatology in the Works of Lewis Carroll", pp. 25-41 by Karen Gardiner in "The Carrollian" (thecarrollian.org.uk/cgi-bin/a, Issue 31, 2018).

    Karen Gardiner's paper is one of the best articles I ever read about #TheHuntingOfTheSnark. Regrettably, lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/ didn't make it available online yet.

    #KarenGardiner #LewisCarroll #ThomasCranmer #EternalDamnation #EternalPunishment #Number42 #42Articles #ReligSnark

  35. Implementation of the Bellman's rule "What I tell you three times is true" (from Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", 1876). The #Haskell code is here: snrk.de/truth-isnt-truth/

    This is a great tool for fact checking.
    This is a great tool for fact checking.
    This is a great tool for fact checking.

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark, #LewisCarroll, #WhatITellYouThreeTimesIsTrue, #BellmansRule, #thrice, #threeTimes, #truth, #facts, #assertion, #assertiveness, #proof, #FactChecking

Share on Mastodon

Enter the server where you have an account.