Thanks to a reddit comment (www.reddit.com/r/etymology/...) by SagebrushandSeafoam I learned about 'A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue' (dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/s...) which shows that the term "snark" already was used in 1585.

Website: “The (almost really) Complete Works of Lewis Carroll” You can download the whole huge collection as one single PDF file, or you can read it online as HTML pages. schnark.github.io/lewis-carrol...

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Almost every reader of "The Hunting of the Snark" thinks that the hunting party consists of 10 Snark hunters. How unhinged is the opinion that there are only 9 hunters in Lewis Carroll's Snark tragicomedy? bsky.app/profile/snar...

Rethinking the Snark snrk.de/fact-checks/

Staff at Lincoln Cathedral find a dinner party invite by author Lewis Carroll from 1875. 👇 BBC News - Dinner invite shows what Lewis Carroll had for tea www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC already missed two 150th Snark anniversaries. I hope that they won't miss the third one. So I sent them a reminder. bsky.app/profile/snar...

The BBC probably didn't get it. Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" is a masterpiece which deserves more attention. (At least a curator of the British Museum understood Henry Holiday's game: bm.snrk.de)

More about Carroll's Snark cameo: snrk.de/lewis-carroll/

But the evil man is not the White Knight.

The Oxford Spectator No. XX. TUESDAY, MAY 19. 1868. from p. 77~78 /136 archive.org/details/oxfo... PDF: archive.org/download/oxf...

Today I made a discovery which lets me assume that the meaning of "snark" in 1831 was not too different from how we use the term today. bsky.app/profile/snar...

See also: snrk.de/snark-is-old...

Perhaps the pre-Carroll meaning of Snark might come close to the the onomatopoeia "snarking". Regrettably, I still don't know the sound of snarking. The report below (1866, snrk.de/page_etymolo...) only is about a sound which is ^not^ "like" snarking. bsky.app/profile/snar...

Snark150's chat with Grok:

All of us are hunting Snarks in our pursuit of happiness (snrk.de?s=PursuitOfH...). But once you found the Snark, it might have turned into a Boojum. In fascism, even the hunters are Boojums.

In case you put a Snark into your crossword: laxcrossword.com/2025/10/la-t... ("45D Snidely critical : SNARKY “Snark” is a term that was coined by Lewis Carroll [...]") The onomatopoeic word "snarking" already had been used in 1866. It was not coined by Carroll. Details: snrk.de/page_etymolo...

There will be another essay in 2026.

Pre Raphaelite window All Saints Bakewell Adoration of the Lamb Henry Holiday #WindowsOnWednesday #StainedGlass

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #ThomasCranmer I think that Thomas Cranmer is one of the persons represented by the "Baker" and that C. L. Dodgson's (Lewis Carroll's) feelings about Cranmer were ambivalent. bsky.app/profile/snar...

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

※ Snark is legitimate conflict, which even can be a heated debate. ※ Boojum ist lethal. «L.C. forgot that “the Snark” is a tragedy and [should] on no account be made jovial. h.h.» (Handwritten note by Henry Holiday on a page from a letter by C.L. Dodgson.) snrk.de/the-snark-is-a-tragedy

My latest Snark finding in 2025: snrk.de/starry-map/

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.) bsky.app/profile/snar...

I joined the site of the Boojum. Will that account stay or vanish away?

#WorldCatDay #InternationalCatDay #CatDay #Kittens Details from a painting by Matthias Grünewald and from an illustration by Henry Holiday to "The Hunting of the Snark", who saw a Kitten in Grünewalds painting. To artists paredolia is a tool.

"Baker instead of butcher" on page 83 in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" is not an error! See "Baker for Butcher on p. 83" by Alan Tannenbaum, "The Snarkologist", Vol. 1, Fit 7, March 2024, snrk.de/baker-for-bu...

snrk.de/snarkhunt/#p... 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".

Sketch made in 1871 by Henry Holiday (the illustrator of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", 1876) of a moon crater using the Newall Telescope at Gateshead (built by Thomas Cooke, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newall_...). (University of Cambridge Repository, www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/...)

Note on the "Trade Edition" of "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876) by Lewis Carroll (poem), Martin Gardner (annotator), Henry Holiday (illustrator), Charles Mitchell (contributor), Selwin H. Goodacre (contributor); 1981 (William Kaufmann, Inc) snrk.de/papers-and-b...

Who was first? ※ Gustave Doré's illustration to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", ※ Henry Holiday's book cover design to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".

Dear Bard, "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876) is one of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's books which has been written to be re-read and re-looked at many times. You might like Henry Holiday's pictorial allusions (engraved by Joseph Swain) to John Martin's painting "The Bard" (c. 1871).

#OTD, 151 years ago, the sentence “For the Snark was a Boojum.” popped up in Lewis Carroll’s mind. It became the final line in his tragicomedy “The Hunting of the Snark”.

Thank you, Sine, for the link.That was what I read a few years ago. Today, I don’t agree with what they wrote about 42. I think that Karen Gardiner is right: bsky.app/profile/snar...

In the Illustration by Henry Holiday to the final chapter ("The Vanishing") of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), a hidden depiction of Thomas Cranmer's hand in the flames can be found. #ThomasCranmer #FortyTwoArticles #42Articles #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday

This day in 1833, John Keble’s sermon on national apostasy sparked the Oxford Movement shaking a Church that was asleep at the wheel (more in comments) ⚓

For this #OTD (14 July 1833, Oxford St. Mary university church) I have a reminder in my calendar, because I think that Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (also) is about the debates and conflicts related to the Oxford Movement. #OxfordMovement #JohnKeble snrk.de/carroll-and-...

See also Darien Graham-Smith' PhD thesis "Contextualising Carroll: The Contradiction of Science and Religion in the Life and Works of Lewis Carroll", 2005 Summary: snrk.de/contextualis...

«“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") snrk.de/page_we-are-...

The beheading of Anne Boleyn? bsky.app/profile/snar...

“Trust in science has lately emerged as the Snark of American politics.” #STS scholar Sheila Jasanoff employs two Lewis Carroll characters—the Snark and the Boojum—in explaining the “strangely undefined” quest to understand public trust in science. issues.org/snark-boojum...

I think that one of the topics addressed by Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday in "The Hunting of the Snark" is the impact of science on religion and the church.

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. bsky.app/profile/snar...

#quotes #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday #HeinzVonFoerster #RudolfArnheim #LeoSteinberg #TheHuntingOfTheSnark snrk.de/snarkhunt/#q...

Asking #MetaAI about possible interpretations of the 1st stanza in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark":

"Tenniel’s Turned Rabbit: A Reading of Alice with Tenniel’s Help" by Roderick McGillis (academia.edu/resource/wor...) snrk.de is about reading “The Hunting of the Snark” with Henry Holiday’s help.

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.

Sense or nonsense? Randomness or intent? Explanation or ambiguity? Read Senior Editor Dina's take on nonsense lit over on the WLM blog at www.weirdlitmag.com/...