The Hunting of the Snark

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Sometimes I feel bad about my comments to wrong or misattributed quotes. But Lewis Carroll quotes seem to be very popular not only in social media but also on skins. My comments might help to prevent some people from getting the wrong tattoo. 😉

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I don't think that it was Lewis Carroll who said, “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” The quote seems to be from some Alice movie.

@quoteinvestigator.com, any hints?

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Monsters, by Henry Holiday (1875) and J. J. Grandville (1842). Source: https://snrk.de/delightful-monster/ About Holiday's Boojum (left image): «One of the first three [illustrations] I had to do was the disappearance of the Baker, and I not unnaturally invented a Boojum. Mr. Dodgson wrote that it was a delightful monster, but that it was inadmissible. All his descriptions of the Boojum were quite unimaginable, and he wanted the creature to remain so. I assented, of course, though reluctant to dismiss what I am still confident is an accurate representation. I hope that some future Darwin in a new Beagle will find the beast, or its remains; if he does, I know he will confirm my drawing.» Source: Henry Holiday (1898) "The Snark’s Significance", https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/HenryHoliday_TheSnarksSignificance__searchable.pdf About Grandvilles monster (right image): The Loves of Two Beasts (Freaking Monster) - in 'Animals Painted by Themselves: Private and Public Life of Animals' by Grandville, Chapter by Honoré de Balzac, ed. Hetzel https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Grandville/1066441/The-Loves-of-Two-Beasts-(Freaking-Monster)---in-%27Animals-Painted-by-Themselves:-Private-and-Public-Life-of-Animals%27-by-Grandville,-Chapter-by-Honor%C3%A9-de-Balzac,-ed.-Hetzel.html

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.

The word "Snark"has not been coined by Lewis Carroll.

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"SERMONS IN STONES. — On the road from Salisbury to Lymington is a milestone which is affirmed by very many to render an audible sound to those who are passing by it. It has been placed on a mound of earth by which it is so far elevated that the top of the stone is about even with the head of the pedestrian traveller. This milestone is situated in that part of the road which traverses the New Forest, near to the village called Burley. Those who assert that they hear the sound all concur in representing it to be a kind of scratching or scranching, like the edge of an iron-tipped, or the sole of a roughly-nailed, boot being harshly drawn across the gravel. I will not quite compare it to a certain kind of snarking or gnashing, [...]" Source: Notes and Queries, 1866-09-29, Series 3, Volume 10, p. 248 doi: 10.1093/nq/s3-X.248.248-f http://archive.org/stream/s3notesqueries10londuoft/s3notesqueries10londuoft_djvu.txt https://snrk.de/page_etymology-of-snark/

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.
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There will be another essay in 2026.

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?

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In Lewis Carroll's time, writing desks and ravens both had feathers on them.

On 18 July 1874, the very last line of Carroll’s Snark tragicomedy came into his head while out on a walk at Guildford: “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see”.

Lewis Carroll might haven been inspired by the word "snarking". It already had been used in 1866 (or earlier?).

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'You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.'

This doesn't sound like an Lewis Carroll quote. What is the _original_ Lewis Carroll source for this quote?

Thomas Cranmer's recantations: snrk.de/page_seven-c...

On 18 July 1874, the very last line of Carroll’s Snark tragicomedy came into his head while out on a walk at Guildford: “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see”.

Lewis Carroll might haven been inspired by the word "snarking" which already had been used in 1866 (or earlier?).

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Something to look at and to say “huh”. It’s a finding also mentioned by a curator of the British Museum (bm.snrk.de).

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The comparison of the Cheshire Cat with Johnson is an insult to the cat.

As for Lewis Carroll's "Snark" (the word popped up in his mind in 1874), the term "snarking" is a bit older (1866).

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No problem. That can’t be a large room.

As a place for the felon’s balls, that room is much too large.