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Mainly about Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark"
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And if "Boots" is a portmanteau for "Bonnets and Hoods" (snrk.de/boots-bonnet...), then this might explain why Henry Holiday depicted only nine Snark hunters in his illustrations to "The Hunting of the Snark".
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Nonsense literature allows the author and the reader to give a book more than one meaning. But there might be one meaning favorized by the author.
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George Harrison: "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."(www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/georg...)
Here is,what Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat originally said (snrk.de/Gutenberg/Al...) :
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I once had a desktop background like that.
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As for (2), I think that both of you will enjoy "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroun_...).
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Correction: "an already existing work" should be "an already existing word". I think that "Boots" is a portmanteau: snrk.de/boots-bonnet....
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Measured and confirmed.
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I guess that only few people know Kafka’s office writings.
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But only Boojums are the trophies they bring back from their hunt.
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That's true.
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Nonsense is not at all the absurd or the opposite of sense, but rather that which gives value to sense and produces it by circulating in the structure. Structuralism owes nothing to Albert Camus, but much to Lewis Carroll.
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About Lewis Carroll and drugs: snrk.de/drugs.
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He should aim to send an unscrewed Tesla to Mars, but there is none.
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It's a common mistake in social media. But I like it, because this battle against reality is driven by imagination. 😉
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The Bellman's rule
(snrk.de/snarkhunt/#008)
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Thank you. (The title should have been "Snakeheads", not "Snakeshead". Sorry.)
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My William Morris Firefox theme: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...
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The beheading of Anne Boleyn?
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«“You may charge me with murder—or want of sense—
(We are all of us weak at times):
But the slightest approach to a false pretence
Was never among my crimes!»
(Said by the "Baker" - Thomas Cranmer? - in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark")
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«“You may charge me with murder—or want of sense—
(We are all of us weak at times):
But the slightest approach to a false pretence
Was never among my crimes!»
(Said by the "Baker" - Thomas Cranmer? - in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark")
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That's an important part of the Snark taxonomy.
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About the end of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" in Henry Holiday's illustration to the last fit: bsky.app/profile/snar....
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❤️
And all the Lewis Carroll quotes (www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/ch...) are correct. That rare in social media,
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My latest Snark finding in 2025: snrk.de/starry-map/
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I found that map _after_ I wrote an article about Henry Holiday's cover illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". (I didn't update that article before it was published in February 2025.)
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Should the title have been "Holiday's Allusions"? bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Context is important.
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The late John Tufail told me quite a few years ago that in Henry Holiday's illustration to "The Hunting of the Snark" (detail on in the upper left inset in the image shown below) the "Billiard marker" is preparing a cheat. John explained it to me, but I didn't understand it.
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#NotByCarroll
George Harrison's "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" probably got inspired by Lewis Carroll.
Here is Carroll’s original text:
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#NotByCarroll
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
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Yes, it’s a nice myth. bsky.app/profile/snar...
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It’s fun to watch videos like that. Enjoy it. Additionally, there of course also is academic research. snrk.de/contextualis... is an example.
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Henry Holiday knew that photo when he illustrated Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".
More: snrk.de/page_lewis-c...
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As for the portrait: bsky.app/profile/snar...
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Lewis Carroll's original quote: «‘I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’»
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#NotByCarroll: «I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.»
Correct: «‘I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’»
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#NotByCarroll
«You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.»
Source: Linda Woolverton's screenplay for the 2010 Alice movie.
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Thread about misattributions to Lewis Carroll.