About this site:
Snrk.de mostly is about Henry Holiday‘s illustrations (engraved by Joseph Swain) to Lewis Carroll‘s tragicomical ballad The Hunting of the Snark.
If – and the thing is wildly possible – the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this great blog, I will not (as I might) point to the fact that throughout my Snark hunt, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart; and that the crooked Boojum also played its cards very hard and, as everyone knows, failed to stop me – which would qualify me as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!
As promised, I will not point to that – even though it would be true if I would state it three times. Very true. Very, very true. Rather, I point to those (like John Tufail and Mahendra Singh) who really helped and encouraged me and, last not least, to those many people who turned the Internet into a humongous museum through which I could stroll while loafing on my sofa. That was the place where my Snark hunt started in December 2008, and snrk.de is place for presenting my trophies since 2012.
On 2017-10-09, snrk.de underwent a major change. I added a blog to the site and rearranged it completely. If you previously used links to snrk.de and your browser now doesn’t find them anymore: Some of these links still may work if you replace snrk.de by old.snrk.de.
In snrk.de you’ll find a few assumptions:
※ The Beaver‘s lace making is “wrong” (in Carroll’s view) if lace making stands for vivisection.
※ Lewis Carroll liked to create “portmanteau words”. I suggest that the Boots is the maker of Bonnets and Hoods.
※ Last not least, since 2010 I think that the most important assumption is that Thomas Cranmer could be among the historical persons to whom the Baker (with four nicknames related to something which was heated or burned) might be related. As a protestant, Cranmer wrote the Forty-Two Articles. Under threat, he left those articles behind like the Forty-Two Boxes, which the Baker left behind on the beach. Then Carroll associated the Baker with pets of catholic saints: Macarius’ hyenas and Corbinian’s bear. (See also: Angus MacIntyre’s suggestion “The Baker’s 42 Boxes are the original Protestant Articles of 1553, with Thomas Cranmer’s name on each.” in The Reverend Snark, Jabberwocky 23(1994), p. 51~52.)
About me:
I am an electronics and mechatronics engineer, not a scholar in arts and literature. I know how to work scientifically, but as for arts and literature, I am an
amateur. Therefore I don’t have to protect any reputation in the Snark interpretation business. Nevertheless, if you publish papers about, for example, the
Snark and Thomas Cranmer, please give credit to those, how addressed that topic already. That’s me (2014, after first attempts in 2010), but also Mary Hibbs (2017, pen names: Mary Hammond and Sandra Mann) and Angus MacIntyre (1994).
Privacy policy and data protection:
This site complies with the European
General Data Protection Regulation and obeys to the
Do Not Track (DNT) header. In order to make things easy to me, nobody can register with snrk.de and leave personal data in the blog database. Therefore no such data are collected.
Licenses:
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 is the license for images in this blog if not indicated otherwise.
Contact:
In order to avoid collecting personal user data and to minimize spam, I disabled blog registration and don’t publish an email address. But you can write to me in social networks.
Sometimes I also look into these sites:
Götz Kluge, Munich 2018-07-07, update: 2018-09-18
In July 2018, the members of the LCSNA (Lewis Carroll Society of North America) received the 100th Knight Letter.
