001 “Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,
002 As he landed his crew with care;
003 Supporting each man on the top of the tide
004 By a finger entwined in his hair.
005 “Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
006 That alone should encourage the crew.
007 Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
008 What I tell you three times is true.”
329 “’Tis the voice of the Jubjub!” he suddenly cried.
330 (This man, that they used to call “Dunce.”)
331 “As the Bellman would tell you,” he added with pride,
332 “I have uttered that sentiment once.
333 “’Tis the note of the Jubjub! Keep count, I entreat;
334 You will find I have told it you twice.
335 ’Tis the song of the Jubjub! The proof is complete,
336 If only I’ve stated it thrice.”
Referring to Edith Wharton’s biography of Theodore Roosevelt (MG007), Kelly Ramsdell Fineman told us …
… that President Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Wharton were huge fans of the Snark. On one visit to the White House, Wharton learned of the following exchange that occurred between the President and the Secretary of the Navy (undoubtedly unaware of Carroll’s poem, or at least unaware that Roosevelt was quoting):
During discussion, Roosevelt said to the secretary of the Navy,
“Mr. Secretary, what I tell you three times is true!”
The Secretary replied stiffly,
“Mr. President, it would never for a moment have occurred to me to impugn your veracity.”
Already Shakespeare applied the Bellman’s Rule. It is stated in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, line #7 and line #335. I said it in Lua – wrote it in Python and Scratch, I made that indeed, but I wholly forgot (when finally done), that Haskell is what you need! So, here is an example for how to implement that rule:
#! /usr/bin/haskell
import Data.List
someAssertions :: [String]
someAssertions =
["I am a very stable genius!"
,"There are 10 Snark hunters."
,"There are 9 Snark hunters."
,"There are 10 Snark hunters."
,"I am a very stable genius!"
,"Brexit promises will be kept!"
,"Brexit promises will be kept!"
,"Brexit promises will be kept!"
,"6 * 7 = 39"
,"6 * 7 = 39"
,"There are 10 Snark hunters."
,"6 * 7 = 42"
,"I am a very stable genius!"
,"There are 10 Snark hunters."
,"6 * 7 = 39"
,"There are 10 Snark hunters."
]
atLeastThrice :: [String] -> [String]
atLeastThrice assertions =
[head grp | grp <-
group $ sort assertions, length grp >= 3]
Result (if loaded and executed in GHCi):
*Main> atLeastThrice someAssertions
["6 * 7 = 39","Brexit promises will be kept!","I am a very stable genius!","There are 10 Snark hunters."]
Checking my Haskell implementation of “What I tell you three times is true” using ChatGPT:![Here is an implementation of "What I tell you three times is true" in Haskell:
atlLeastThrice :: [String] -> [String]
atLeastThrice assertions =
[head grp | grp <-
group $sort assertions, length grp >= 3]
Thank you for providing the implementation in Haskell. Yes, your & implementation looks correct. The "group" function groups the same elements in the list together, then you are filtering out the groups that have less than three elements, and finally returning the head of each group (which is the repeated assertion).](//snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Haskell3TimesCheck.jpg "Here is an implementation of \"What I tell you three times is true\" in Haskell:
atlLeastThrice :: [String] -> [String]
atLeastThrice assertions =
[head grp | grp <-
group $sort assertions, length grp >= 3]
Thank you for providing the implementation in Haskell. Yes, your & implementation looks correct. The \"group\" function groups the same elements in the list together, then you are filtering out the groups that have less than three elements, and finally returning the head of each group (which is the repeated assertion).")
PS: It’s not easy. Truth isn’t truth.
2017-12-16, update: 2023-09-24
Jabberwocky, Confounded
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The Bonnetmaker drawing could be a little self portrait, a cameo of Henry Holiday in The Hunting of the Snark. The photo is a portrait perhaps taken by Joseph Swain or a self portrait. Henry Holiday was in his mid thirties when he illustrated Carroll’s Snark tragicomedy, and the National Portrait Gallery dated a 
![Here is an implementation of "What I tell you three times is true" in Haskell:
atlLeastThrice :: [String] -> [String]
atLeastThrice assertions =
[head grp | grp <-
group $sort assertions, length grp >= 3]
Thank you for providing the implementation in Haskell. Yes, your & implementation looks correct. The "group" function groups the same elements in the list together, then you are filtering out the groups that have less than three elements, and finally returning the head of each group (which is the repeated assertion).](http://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Haskell3TimesCheck.jpg "Here is an implementation of \"What I tell you three times is true\" in Haskell:
atlLeastThrice :: [String] -> [String]
atLeastThrice assertions =
[head grp | grp <-
group $sort assertions, length grp >= 3]
Thank you for providing the implementation in Haskell. Yes, your & implementation looks correct. The \"group\" function groups the same elements in the list together, then you are filtering out the groups that have less than three elements, and finally returning the head of each group (which is the repeated assertion).")
Are any earlier publishing dates for facsimile reproductions of his drawing known before 1876?
