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The Hunting of the Snark
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Mainly about Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark"

by @goetzkluge.bsky.social

※ 3 Snark anniversaries: @snark150.bsky.social
※ My Snark blog since 2017: https://snrk.de
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I am hunting the Snark. My main hunting grounds are Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". The shortlink bm.snrk.de leads you to my most important finding.
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#anglican #ThomasCranmer #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

In one of Henry Holiday's illustrations to "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876, by Rev. C.L. Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll), a hidden depiction of Thomas Cranmer's hand in the flames can be found.

See also: Curator's comment in snrk.de/faiths-victo....
October 1, 2023 at 12:24 AM
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Karen Gardiner, "Life, Eternity,and Everything: Hidden #Eschatology in the Works of Lewis Carroll", pp. 25~41 in The Carrollian, Issue 31, 2018.

snrk.de/eschatologic...

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark (The Hunting of the Snark), #LewisCarroll, #ThomasCranmer, #Anglican, #42Articles, #42, #EternalDamnation
October 1, 2023 at 3:50 PM
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The Oxford Spectator
No. XX. TUESDAY, MAY 19. 1868.
from p. 77~78 /136
archive.org/details/oxfo...
PDF: archive.org/download/oxf...
November 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The Oxford Spectator
#OxfordSpectator
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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«I had no other meaning in my mind, when I wrote [The Hunting of the Snark]: but people have since tried to find the meanings in it. The one I like best (which I think is partly my own) is that it may be taken as an Allegory for the Pursuit of Happiness.»

Lewis Carroll, 1897-01-12
January 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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1/🧵

I'm now digging into the game. As an engineer, I said and heard RTFM often enough, so here we go:

JJ Secker allowed me to put the rules in public domain:
snrk.de/wp-content/u... (black&white, 3MB)
snrk.de/wp-content/u... (color, 48MB)

Images from the manual (20 pages in 18 PDF pages).
February 10, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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February 4, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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January 31, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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"The Hunting of the Snark" in the Grokipedia: There are many links to my Snark blog snrk.de in grokipedia.com/page/the_hun.... But en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hun... still is much better. In the Grokipedia, references to Günther Flemming, Karen Gardiner and Goetz Kluge (that's me) are missing.
The Hunting of the Snark - Wikipedia
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January 31, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Günther Flemming vanished in the Internet, but still lives in the town of Gardelegen.

bsky.app/profile/snar...
Günther Flemming (snrk.de/page_boots-b...) war der einzige mir bekannte Übersetzer, der verstanden hat, dass es in Snarkjagdgesellschaft möglicherweise nur neun Snarkjäger gibt, und nicht zehn.

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If Lewis Carroll chose "Boots" as a portmanteau for "Bonnets" and "Hoods" (zirk.us/@snarkology/...), then there might be only 9 Snark hunters in "The Hunting of the Snark", not 10 (snrk.de/page_boots-b...).

#portmanteau #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Among all Snark hunters known to me, Rev. Karen Gardiner has the best understanding for what the number 42 meant to Lewis Carroll. bsky.app/profile/snar...
Karen Gardiner, "Life, Eternity,and Everything: Hidden #Eschatology in the Works of Lewis Carroll", pp. 25~41 in The Carrollian, Issue 31, 2018.

snrk.de/eschatologic...

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark (The Hunting of the Snark), #LewisCarroll, #ThomasCranmer, #Anglican, #42Articles, #42, #EternalDamnation
January 31, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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In November 2025, the Grokipedia article was a copy of the Wikipedia article: web.archive.org/web/20251117....
February 1, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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From November 2025 until January 2026, there was frequent archiving of the Grokipedia article about "The Hunting of the Snark" in the Wayback Machine.

web.archive.org/web/20250601...
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February 1, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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March 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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👈: Illustration by Henry Holiday (cut by Joseph Swain) to the chapter 'The Banker’s Fate' in Lewis Carroll’s 'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876).
👉: Horizontally compressed rendering of 'The Imagebreakers' (1566-1568) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.

snrk.de/flipping-the...
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit."

Happy birthday #LewisCarroll
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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There is something special about this illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".
January 28, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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#OTD, on 27 January 1832, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury (Cheshire, England). 150 years ago, his tragicomedy “The Hunting of the Snark” was published under Dodgson's nom de plume “Lewis Carroll”. Below you can see his nine Snark hunters depicted by the illustrator Henry Holiday.
January 26, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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The Ultimate Alphabet - letter B.
By Mike Wilks, 1986, Ed.1987.
January 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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It seems that Mike Wilks snarked his painting a bit.
January 20, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 4:31 PM