150 Years of Snark

Why is it like The Hunting of the Snark?

Cette année (2026), « La Chasse au Snark » de Lewis Carroll fête ses 150 ans, mais l'auteur est « controversé ». @panmacmillan.bsky.social et les autres médias hésitent-ils à se joindre aux célébrations ? Et pourquoi ne pas célébrer aussi les illustrations d'Henry Holiday ?

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https://snrk.de/page_lewis-carroll/ Photographic self portrait (c. 1875) by Lewis Carroll, and its inclusion into an illustration by Henry Holiday and Joseph Swain (engraver) to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark".

Autoportrait photographique (vers 1875) de Lewis Carroll et son inclusion dans une illustration de Henry Holiday et Joseph Swain (graveur) pour "La Chasse au Snark" de Lewis Carroll.

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What inspired Henry Holiday when he illustrated Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark”? In the exhibition, is this👇 on display too?

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“[…] The exhibition explores how Carroll's works have inspired later artists and illustrators to produce their own interpretations. It also celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark. […]”

“[…] The exhibition explores how Carroll's works have inspired later artists and illustrators to produce their own interpretations. It also celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark. […]”

Source: https://snrk.de/drugs/ --------------------------------- The drug link is a homespun thing. You’ll find it on a host of random forums. But the experts are usually sceptical. Carroll wasn’t thought to have been a recreational user of opium or laudanum, and the references may say more about the people making them than the author. “The notion that the surreal aspects of the text are the consequence of drug-fuelled dreams resonates with a culture, particularly perhaps in the 60s, 70s and 80s when LSD was widely-circulated and even now where recreational drugs are commonplace,” says Dr Heather Worthington, Children’s Literature lecturer at Cardiff University. Source: Is Alice in Wonderland really about drugs? https://web.archive.org/web/20230131121300/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19254839 (by Sophie Robehmed, BBC magazine 2012-08-20)

Yes, it's weird. But as for Lewis Carroll, creativity is possible without drugs. Carroll could not have constructed his dialogs while consuming drugs. He needed a clear mind when writing his books. See also snrk.de/drugs.

That‘s a nice quote. But you won‘t find it in any of Lewis Carroll‘s writings.

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That 'bonkers' quote is from Linda Woolverton's screenplay for the 2010 Alice movie. Lewis Carroll didn't use the word 'bonkers' (www.etymonline.com/word/bonkers).

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Yes, there is lots behind Henry Holiday's illustrations.

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Good!

I think that Henry Holiday's Snark illustrations are as important as Lewis Carroll's long poem.

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20 years ago I used an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt/#353) to describe various hazards at today's office workplaces. (That also triggered my own snark hunt. In snrk.de you can see my trophies.)

Do Rabbits Live In Holes In The Ground? - Sciencing Do Rabbits Live in Holes in the Ground?

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※ Right: Bonomi Edward Warren: Sportsman and dog on a wooded path (1868, watercolor) ※ Center: Magic lantern slide by William Robert Hill: Alice in Wonderland (1876) ※ Left: Bonomi Edward Warren: Woodland Scene in Summer with Children on a Path (1871, oil on canvas) (The top and bottom segment of the magic lantern slide has been slightly vertically stretched.)

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Here is a path: snrk.de/snarkhunt

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Among Lewis Carroll’s illustrators, Henry Holiday (who designed the illustrations to “The Hunting of the Snark”) is my favorite.

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This year (2026), Lewis Carroll‘s “The Hunting of The Snark” celebrates its 150th anniversary, but the author is “problematic” (snrk.de/kwm/). Are @panmacmillan.bsky.social and other media afraid of joining the celebrations? How about celebrating Henry Holiday’s illustrations too?

=== https://snrk.de/zzota-snark/ === SNARK!, created by ZZOTA in 2006, is a card game based on Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark”. Jeremy Jexon Secker defined the rules in 1985. The beautiful design of the cards is by Xanna Eve Chown. Sadly, ZZOTA vanished away in 2017.

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Today I started describing JJ Secker's legacy card game SNARK! (where the cards had been designed by Xanna Eve Chown). There will be more later.

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Rules of JJ Secker and Xanna Eve Chown's SNARK! card game. ※ 10 MB PDF file: https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SNARKrules.pdf ※ Text: https://snrk.de/the-snark-rules/ Keywords: TheHuntingOfTheSnark | games | videogames | computergames | cardgames | game | videogame | computergame | cardgame | gamedesign | underdevelopment | The Hunting of the Snark | Lewis Carroll | card games | virtual cards | virtual tabletop | game rules | gamerules

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I rescanned the rules of the SNARK! card game.
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Some cards of SNARK! ※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker ※ Design (2006): Xanna Eve Chown http://snark.games

Some cards of SNARK!
※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker
※ Artwork (2006): Xanna Eve Chown

Nice quote (even though it’s not from any of Lewis Carroll’s original writings).

The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect. ‘Cheshire Puss,’ she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. ‘Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where—’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat. ‘—so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation. ‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.’

Here is an implementation of "What I tell you three times is true" in Haskell: atLeastThrice :: [String] -> [String] atLeastThrice assertions = [head grp | grp <- group $ sort assertions, length grp >= 3] ChatGPT's explanation: Thank you for providing the implementation in Haskell. Yes, your implementation looks correct. The "group" function groups the same elements in the list together, then you are filtering out the groups that have less than three elements, and finally returning the head of each group (which is the repeated assertion).

As for the quote (snrk.de/snarkhunt/#008), it's the Bellman's rule.

Poor Snark. Even if something is quoted from Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” (1876), only “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is mentioned.

Heads up! Let’s not forget the 150th anniversary of the Snark in this year.

This quote can be found in the Internet, but it cannot be found in Lewis Carroll‘s original writings.