150 Years of Snark

Sometimes I wish that old literature would not be relevant in these times.

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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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

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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The 10 cards of the CREW DECK. ------------------------------------- SNARK! ※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker ※ Artwork (2006): Xanna Eve Chown

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The 10 cards of the CREW DECK.

Richard Dadd - Wikipedia

It always needs to be understood, what affects an author's writing and an artist's artwork. The mad Richard Dadd (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...) is one of my favorite painters.

Then there are the consumers of art. It's them who give meaning to art.

My focus is on Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark". @finger-in-his-hair.bsky.social is about possible sexual connotations in that book. The graphical one by Holiday *could* just be some gag like the one in Millais' "Lorenzo and Isabella".

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Because of Katherine Wakely-Mulroney's research yoelds much more knowledge than I have, I stopped guessing. The question remains, where exactly Carroll might have evidently cast any icky shadow on any of his books.

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The text in this image van be found here: https://www.academia.edu/67147027/The_Man_Who_Loved_Children_Lewis_Carroll_Studies_Evidence_Problem

Again the link to Katherine Wakely-Mulroney's "The Man Who Loved Children: Carroll Studies’ Evidence Problem", Journal of the History of Sexuality, University of Texas Press, Vol. 30, № 3, pp. 335-362, 2021-09, www.academia.edu/67147027/The...

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Nice try to be smart. But "If you're so pathetic that you HAVE TO have the last word...be my guest!" won't prevent me to ask you again whether you read the paper which I recommended you. The paper does not support paedophile apologists.

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I try to keep the debate in a single thread.

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Back to my first recommendation to you to check the assemblage posted by you. Here you see how David O’Kane constructed the Alice-kisses-Carroll photo in 2005.

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Where did I deny evidence for the ~30 nude photos taken by Carroll? I just showed, that there is no evidence that the Musée Cantini photo had been taken by Carroll/Dodgson. There also is no evidence that the photo depicts a nude Lorina Liddell.

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Your link to the 2015 BBC/SwanFilms "documentary" isn't good evidence either. The 2nd half of that movie is about a nude photo allegedly depicting Lorina Liddell. The Musée Cantini in Marseilles owns the photo. They neither will confirm that Dodgson took the photo nor that it shows Lorina.

Our dialog might have reached as stage, where you want to block my account because I addressed the fake image (belonging to a YT video to which you linked) posted by you. On the other hand I gave you a link to a paper, which helps you to change the mind of deniers. I hope that you appreciate that.

So you didn’t check the Alice-kisses-Carroll assemblage yet?

I am honored by your response to me ad hominem rather than focusing on Lewis Carroll, but I still recommend to read Katherine Wakely-Mulroney‘s paper, especially the conclusion.Then you will understand that it doesn‘t exonerate Dodgson.

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?

Whoops!

You might want to find out, from which two photos this image had been assembled. 😉

About what Lewis Carroll was and wasn't: Katherine Wakely-Mulroney: The Man Who Loved Children: Carroll Studies’ Evidence Problem, Journal of the History of Sexuality, University of Texas Press, Vol. 30, № 3, pp. 335-362, 2021-09, www.academia.edu/67147027/The...

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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=== https://snrk.de/starry-map/ === John Tufail’s “The Illuminated Snark” (p. 15) lead me to this comparison. In 2004 he interpreted the starry night sky in Henry Holiday’s front cover illustration to Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” (1876) as a map, where the white clouds represented land with rivers. I liked the suggestion, but did not find any real-world map to which Holiday might have alluded. Holiday engraved that illustration himself. I discovered John Tufail’s paper in 2009. Only in 2024, after 15 years, I got the idea to compress and flip a large segment of a map of the British isles vertically. That’s my “slowness in taking a jest”. You see the result. Sadly, I can’t tell John that anymore. I appreciated his guidance a lot. The white clouds weren’t the land, but as for a map having been hidden in the illustration, John was right.

Talking about Henry Holiday: In this year (2026) we can celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark". Even after 150 years only few people are aware of the many pictorial allusions (snrk.de) in Holiday's Snark illustrations.

What I tell you three times is true!

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I re-shuffeled those lines from Lewis Carroll a bit.

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