Götz Kluge's blog about Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's tragicomedy
How can we recognize a Snark? The Bellman explains it (🎶🎶🎶): A Snark is not necessarily evil, but once it turns into a Boojum, you are in trouble. “Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again The five unmistakable marks By which you may know, wheresoever … Continue reading “Snarks Have Five Unmistakable Marks”
In both images shown above there is a little white spot in the upper right corner of the red boxes on the right side. For a long time I thought that Henry Holiday (the illustrator) and/or Joseph Swain (the engraver) inserted this spot (see image on the left side) intentionally as a reference to a … Continue reading “A Wrong Spot at the Right Place”