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Lewis Carroll's tragicomical poem The Hunting of the Snark (with illustrations by Henry Holiday) is not just a funny nonsense poem, it is a tragicomedy about legitimate controversy (Snark) turning into lethal fundamentalism, fanaticism and zealotry (Boojum). The Boojum is just around the corner and waiting for all of us.
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This is about The Hunting of the Snark (1876) by Lewis Carroll (author), Henry Holiday (illustrator) and Joseph Swain (engraver).
The poem and the illustrations have been published by C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1876. On the cover page we read: "With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday". There are ten illustrations, probably the Bellman's Ocean-Chart is not by Holiday. (However, he also designed the front cover and the back cover of the book.) Henry Holiday and Dodgson/Carroll became live long friends when designing their book together.
When asked what meaning the poem has, Carroll/Dodgson answered: "I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense!" Later this statement has been quoted at least thrice. Following the Bellman's rule, we all know that the author's statement must be true. Right?
However, In a handwritten memo by Holiday at the bottom of a page from a letter of Lewis Carroll, Holiday noted that the Snark is more than nonsense: «L.C. forgot that "the Snark" is a tragedy and [should] on no account be made jovial.»
The Hunting of the Snark is not just a funny nonsense poem, it is a tragicomedy about legitimate controversy (Snark) turning into lethal fundamentalism, fanaticism and zealotry (Boojum). The Boojum is just around the corner and waiting for all of us.
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An imaginary map in Henry Holiday's front cover illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark"
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The Hunting of the Snark: Three 150th Anniversaries
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Snark illustration by Mahendra Singh
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The Hunting of the Snark (2023) - Official Trailer [dir. Simon DaVison]
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It is said?
In chapter 7 Surrealist Entanglements of A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918: Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements, Marysa Demoor wrote in footnote 20 on page 199:
As well as containing pictorial references to the etching “The Image Breakers” by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Holiday’s illustration is said to refer to William Sidney Mount’s painting “The Bone Player” and to a photograph by Benjamin Duchenne used for a drawing in Charles Darwin’s “The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals” (1872).
There is a source: The article “Nose is a Nose is a Nose” by Goetz Kluge in the “Knight Letter” (ISSN 0193-886X, published by the Lewis Carroll Society of North America), № 99, Fall 2017, p. 30~31.
Details: https://snrk.de/mudscapes-and-artistic-entanglements/
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No Disney Copyright
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Yoda's Father
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Firefox Theme "The Hunting of the Snark"
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Print "Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie" (1630) and "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876)
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Henry Holiday's illustration to the chapter "The Beaver's Lesson" in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876)
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With Heinz von Foerster you can fix the meanings chosen by Humpty Dumpty.
"‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1871, https://snrk.de/Gutenberg/Through_the_Looking-glass.htm#wordmeaning)
"It is impossible to describe anything unambiguously, for it is the listener and not the speaker who determines the meaning of an utterance." (Heinz von Foerster in "Software Development and Reality Construction", "3.1 Self-Organization and Software Development", HvF and Christiane Floyd, 1992)
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Re-tweets by Musée Unterlinden of my findings
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Carroll on the rocks
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A re-tweet from the museé Unterlinden
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Sometimes less is more
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Thomas Cranmer's Burning
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Index
- This reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHuntingOfTheSnark/wiki/index
- My Snark blog: https://snrk.de
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Burning the Baker
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The Hunting of the Snark: 9 Snark Hunters
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The Hunting of the Snark
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