Navigation Was Always a Difficult Art

But the principal failing occurred in the sailing,
    And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed,
Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East,
    That the ship would not travel due West!

Navigation was always a difficult art,
    Though with only one ship and one bell:
And he feared he must really decline, for his part,
    Undertaking another as well.

 

 

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  • 🚧 Annotations to Annotations 🚧 

    2019-08-27, 07:06

    This is about annotations to Martin Gardner's annotations. And it is under construction. 11: the Baker's 42 boxes 13, 14: the Baker's hot names 15:…

  • The New Belfry 

    2019-08-27, 02:10

    Christ Church Tom Quad, looking south towards the Hall with the temporary belfry mounted on top of it. Photographer: C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) In 1872…

  • Breakfast in Tahiti 

    2019-08-15, 22:57

    Snark mark 2/5:Its habit of getting up late you’ll agree 　That it carries too far, when I say That it frequently breakfasts at five-o’clock tea, 　And…

  • Cranmer's Uncle 

    2019-07-09, 17:33

    Thomas Cranmer is a son of Thomas Cranmer and Agnes Cranmer. The family had been exiled to the Continent in 1539. It is not known exactly when they returned…

  • Constructing Carroll 

    2019-07-08, 11:55

    Source of this image: http://studiotreasure.com/alice/April1_explanation.htm     There also is another infamous collage used in the Internet.…

  • Holiday's Butcher and Millais' Raleigh 

    2019-06-24, 07:53

    Left: Depiction of the Butcher and the Beaver in the illustration by Henry Holiday to the 5th fit The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of…

  • The Image Breakers 

    2019-06-20, 22:30

    2011-06 : The Banker after his encounter with the Bandersnatch, depicted in Henry Holiday's illustration (woodcut by Joseph Swain for block printing) to the…

  • Carroll's comments on an Oxford Belfry 

    2019-06-10, 10:48

    In The New Belfry of Christ Church, a certain "D. C. L." wrote:§ 7. On the impetus given to Art in England by the new Belfry, Ch. Ch. The idea has spread…

  • Headscarfs 

    2019-06-10, 00:01

    : Henry Holiday: Detail from the draft to a depiction (1876) of the Baker's visit to his uncle in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (engraved by…

  • Unhiding the Hidden Eschatology 

    2019-06-05, 23:33

    This assemblage (based on a finding in 2014) shows that Henry Holiday has left a pictorial reference in the final illustration to Lewis Carroll's The…

  • The Barrister's Dream 

    2019-06-04, 07:06

    : Detail from the etching (1566-1568) The Image Breakers by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. : Illustration (1876) by Henry Holiday to the chapter The…

  • Favourite Tweets 

    2019-06-02, 10:41

    About 10 years ago I found out that Henry Holiday's Snark illustrations contained several references to artwork from other artists, father+son Marcus…

  • Face It! 

    2019-05-20, 07:42

    Bycatch from my Snark hunt: Two renderings of a segment from Matthias GrĂŒnewald‘s The Temptation of St. Anthony (c. 1512-1516, painting in a panel of…

  • Twitter: GrĂŒnewald - DorĂ© - Holiday 

    2019-05-12, 12:06

    Isenheim Altarpiece fully open. St. Anthony, patron of the sick, is in center & both wings, because it was made for a hospital in 1515. Amazing work by…

  • Links: Thomas Cranmer 

    2019-04-10, 05:10

    2019: Thomas Cranmer, His Life and Martyrdom (21st March, 1556), 2019-03-24   2018 and before:Thomas Cranmer, by Spartacus Educational Thomas…

  • Edward VI and the Pope 

    2019-03-23, 07:30

    ï»ż Unknown artist: King Edward VI and the Pope, an Allegory of Reformation, (NPG 4165). The 16th century anti-papal propaganda painting shows Henry VIII on…

    • The King's Bedpost 

      2018-02-21, 11:17

      The two images had been compared in a beautiful book by Margaret Aston in 1994: The King's Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait…

  • Asemic Writing in the Waves? 

    2019-03-13, 15:07

    Back cover illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll’s tragicomical poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) with a detail being rendered in four…

  • There is salt on the shadow,
    but no shadow on the salt.     

    2019-03-13, 06:47

    Bycatch from my Snark hunt: This is not one of my Snark comparisons. It is about "seeing" things in paintings and illustrations. When I started my Snark…

  • Lace-Making 

    2019-01-19, 12:20

    Did you know that lace-making is evil? 273    The Boots and the Broker were sharpening a spade— 274        Each working…

  • Slaying the Snark 

    2019-01-06, 09:44

    The English writer Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is an exceptionally difficult read. In it, a crew of improbable characters…

  • Gray's and Martin's Bard 

    2019-01-05, 16:24

    John Martin's painting The Bard (c. 1817) now is located in the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Reco…

  • 🚧 Sources 🚧 

    2019-01-01, 00:39

    under construction thecarrollforum.proboards.com Search for The Hunting of the Snark in archive.org My Snark related books in goodreads.com

  • Happy New Year! 

    2018-12-30, 22:08

    NSoames_FailingSailing.m4v Sir Nicholas Soames reciting four lines from The Hunting of the Snark   But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, A…

  • Darwin's Snarked Study 

    2018-12-25, 08:00

    This is about a possible allusion by Alfred Parsons to an illustration by Henry Holiday. But I may be on the wrong track here. : The Study at Down (from…

  • Selected Tweets 

    2018-12-22, 06:35

    »It next will be rightTo describe each particular batch :Distinguishing※ those that have feathers, and bite,※ And those that have whiskers, and…

  • The President is not Immune 

    2018-12-18, 07:44

      About a reference to Lewis Carroll by Brian Frosh, the Maryland Attorney General: »President Trump’s personal lawyers are seeking to pause…

  • Brexit, Hunting a Fantastical Beast 

    2018-11-19, 18:25

    Article mirrored from theconversation.com Co-published with: centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk See also: ukandeu.ac.uk May government's Brexit aims were…

  • 9.5±0.5 Snark Hunters 

    2018-11-19, 02:22

    Allegedly, the Snark hunting crew consists of ten members (MG017). Is that so? Martin Gardener (MG046) told us that "Phyllis Greenacre thinks that the ten…

    • Der But machte so Bonnie wie Hut 

      2018-08-15, 00:30

      I think that translating Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark without significant losses is almost impossible. But here is an example where a translator…

  • The Baker's 42 Boxes 

    2018-11-15, 00:32

    The Baker’s 42 boxes (MG011) might be a reference to Thomas Cranmer’s 42 Articles.The Baker's 42 Boxes are the original Protestant Articles of 1553, with…

    • Notes on the 39 Articles and the 42 Articles 

      2017-09-19, 20:42

      I don't understand religious matters too well. But as I assume (like Angus MacIntyre in 1994) that the Baker's 42 boxes may stand for Thomas Cranmer's 42…

  • Navigation Was Always a Difficult Art 

    2018-11-13, 14:56

    This page contains the site table of contents. Use it to quickly find content on this website.

  • Some Texts 

    2018-10-20, 05:21

    ※ The Hunting of the Snark ※ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ※ Through the Looking-glass ※ Sylvie and Bruno I ※ Sylvie and Bruno II ※…

  • Every Passing Breeze 

    2018-10-11, 00:17

    Mary Hibbs has published a short booklet (under the name Sandra Mann) containing her analysis of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark. She suggests that…

  • Monstrous Heads 

    2018-09-20, 23:16

    This is a bycatch from my Snark hunt: Segment from a panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece, Matthias GrĂŒnewald's The Temptation of St. Anthony (c. 1512-1516) I…

  • Snark in The Golden Age Of Illustration 

    2018-09-11, 17:54

    Eleven illustrations by Henry Holiday and one illustration by a typesetter to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark in the FB group The Golden Age Of…

  • Golden Age 

    2018-08-27, 09:42

    Henry Holiday's illustrations to The Hunting of the Snark in the FB group The Golden Age: Painting & Illustration 1850-1950: Front cover (only in The Golden…

  • Posts 

    2018-08-25, 10:40

    Posts until 2018-11-09: 9.5±0.5 Snark Hunters Arne Nordheim’s Snark Mike Batt’s Snark Relaunch Bajka’s Snark Hunting Snarks is…

  • Truth isn't Truth 

    2018-08-24, 22:41

    #! /usr/bin/haskell import Data.List statementList :: statementList =   atLeastThrice :: -> atLeastThrice sL =   Result (if…

  • Rule of 3 

    2018-08-10, 22:12

    #! /usr/bin/python statementList = for s in (s for s in frozenset(statementList) if statementList.count(s) >= 3):     print('"' +…

  • FB PreRaph 

    2018-08-05, 15:47

    Henry Holiday, John Martin: The Bard and the Bellman Henry Holiday, Marcus Gheeraerts I: A Nose Job Henry Holiday, Matthias GrĂŒnewald: Kitty …

  • Privacy Policy 

    2018-08-04, 01:56

    See https://snrk.de/snrk-de#Privacy.

  • No Collusion 

    2018-07-27, 08:27

    The Bellman's rule: What I tell you three times is true! But 16 times is fine too. Trump sat for 30 minutes at his golf club with the Times. He said…

  • Rigged Snark Hunt 

    2018-07-21, 11:20

    Inspiring poetry:The Rigged Witch Hunt, originally headed by FBI lover boy Peter S (for one year) & now, 13 Angry Democrats, should look into the missing…

  • The Blank Cheque 

    2018-07-13, 12:30

    THE BLANK CHEQUE, A FABLE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE NEW BELFRY" AND "THE VISION OF THE THREE T'S." "VELL, PERHAPS," SAID SAM, "YOU…

  • Religion, Reform, Rebuilding 

    2018-07-11, 14:58

    Oxford issues? Dodgson, a traditionalist, lived in Oxford at the time when the city was violently at war with itself - about religion, about reform, and…

  • The Banker 

    2018-07-08, 08:50

    013    A Billiard-marker, whose skill was immense, 014        Might perhaps have won more than his share— 015   …

  • We are all of us weak at times 

    2018-06-29, 21:52

    Anne Boleyn, beheaded 1536 Catherine Howard, beheaded 1542 The Baker (possibly an allusion to Thomas Cranmer) says:241       â€œYou…

  • Seven Coats 

    2018-06-13, 12:10

    021     There was one who was famed for the number of things 022         He forgot when he entered the ship: 023    …

  • Misc. Links 

    2018-04-16, 09:58

    I use this page for collecting links which I am interested in. Libraries | Archives | Museums | Searches | What is this? | Darwin Libraries: Hathi…

  • blog 

    2018-03-10, 20:13

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  • Cracks in the Varnish 

    2018-01-25, 12:31

    This is a side-by-side comparison of an unfinished portrait (mirror view) of Sir Henry Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger to one of Henry Holiday's…

  • Douglas Adams and Lewis Carroll 

    2018-01-06, 11:29

    From Lewis Carroll in cyberspace by Robert McFarlane, 2001-08-12, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/aug/12/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.douglasadams: …

  • Tweets by ‎MusĂ©e Unterlinden 

    2017-12-30, 09:11

    This page is related to https://snrk.de/kitty and https://snrk.de/page_kitty. Tweets by MUnterlinden ※ If your browser blocks tracking, the embedded…

  • This is no Cigar 

    2017-12-17, 09:53

    Martin Gardner wrote in his Annotated Snark (1962, MG064) about Henry Holiday's almost surreal illustration: Thousands of readers must have glanced at this…

  • "Cranmer" mentioned in Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" 

    2017-12-05, 00:00

    # Work Character Line Text 1 Henry VIII Henry VIII 1611 . I may perceive These…

  • The Subject to Reason About 

    2017-11-19, 09:53

    345    â€œTwo added to one—if that could but be done,” 346        It said, “with one’s fingers and thumbs!” 347…

  • Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie 

    2017-11-18, 12:55

    Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie (published by Thomas Jenner, c. 1630) is an anti-catholic print showing English Protestant martyrs standing around a fire.…

  • Logout 

    2017-10-22, 23:22

    No description found for this item.

  • The Dream Book of Mr. Pyridine 

    2017-10-18, 00:33

    From Mahendra Singh's The Dream Book of Mr. Pyridine On the right side you see an illustration (vectorized, the original is better) by Mahendra Singh…

  • The Ocean Chart 

    2017-10-11, 23:45

    089    The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies— 090        Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! 091 …

  • Wild Figure 

    2017-10-11, 19:00

    : Segment of John Martin's painting The Bard (c. 1817). : Segment of an illustration (1876) by Henry Holiday to the chapter The Beaver's Lesson in…

  • gallery 

    2017-10-04, 21:53

    This page moved to https://snrk.de/pics-only.

  • Snark Assemblage 

    2017-10-04, 21:18

    In 2012, I assembled two scans from original 19th century sources: Print The Beagle Laid Ashore based on a drawing (1834-04-16) by Conrad Martens, etching…

  • Henry Holiday's Illustrations 

    2017-10-03, 10:37

    It is possible that the author was half-consciously laying a trap, so readily did he take to the inventing of puzzles and things enigmatic; but to those who…

  • Naughty Winged Rat 

    2017-10-02, 20:34

    Plate I of Gustave DorĂ©'s illustrations to chapter 1 in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1863 edition). As for the big head at the lower left corner…

  • When the Queen met the Boojum 

    2017-09-30, 17:56

    : Henry Holiday's illustration (1876) to the front cover of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark : A grey shaded reproduction of the

  • The Broker and the Monk 

    2017-09-27, 07:20

    : Detail from an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark depicting the Broker (upper left corner). : Detail from…

  • A Bonnet 

    2017-09-27, 06:57

    : Mirror view of Henry Holiday's depiction of a bonnet (the hat, not the sail) and the maker of Bonnets and Hoods in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the…

  • Snarked Beagle 

    2017-09-23, 19:28

    1834-04-16, HMS Beagle laid ashore at Tierra del Fuego, Santa Cruz river, 50.1125°S and 68.3917°W. The poster is a PDF file which contains a vectorized…

  • What can Science reveal?
    This is the quest of the Snark.     

    2017-09-19, 12:09

    Lewis Carroll's wrote about The Hunting of the Snark: As to the meaning of the Snark, I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you…

  • jub jub jub jub jub jub jub jub jub ... 

    2017-09-17, 15:07

    297    "Be a man!" said the Bellman in wrath, as he heard 298       The Butcher beginning to sob. 299    "Should we…

  • Religion and Liberty Care and Hope 

    2017-09-16, 18:33

    Comparison (2009-07-09):: Anonymous (1674), Fig. 4/4 to the orartie van de Professor L. Wolsogen over syndroom en de nytlegging van de felue gadaen .... The…

  • Religion and Liberty
    Care and Hope     

    2017-09-16, 18:33

    2009-07-09 : Unknown artist (1674), Fig. 4/4 to the orartie van de Professor L. Wolsogen over syndroom en de nytlegging van de felue gadaen 
 . The…

  • Bone Players 

    2017-09-13, 16:12

    On the left side you see a detail from an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's tragicomedy The Hunting of the Snark. I marked five possible…

    • A Wrong Spot at the Right Place 

      2017-09-29, 00:23

      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…

  • Kitty 

    2017-09-13, 11:57

    I tweeted this comparison between a Snark illustration by Henry Holiday and a painting by Matthias GrĂŒnewald as a comment to a tweet about an exhibit in the…

  • Inspiration by Re-Interpretation 

    2017-09-13, 11:48

    : Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: Catherine Killigrew, Lady Jermyn (1614) : Henry Holiday: Segment (in mirror view) from an illustration to Lewis…

  • Henry George Liddell 

    2017-09-13, 11:37

    Jun 7, 1855: The Times announces that Liddell of Westminster is to be the new Dean: the selection does not seem to have given much satisfaction in the…

  • Thomas Cranmer's Burning 

    2017-09-11, 21:28

    Remember, to Henry Holiday The Hunting of the Snark was a tragedy. 549    â€œIt’s a Snark!” was the sound that first came to their ears, 550…

  • Categories 

    2017-09-11, 16:43

    Keywords: #allusion #bildzitat #ekphrasis #interpictorial #interpictoriality #interpiktoratitĂ€t #interpikturalitĂ€t #kunstzitat #pictorial-allusion…

  • Snark on Reddit 

    2017-09-11, 07:48

    This is about what I published about The Hunting of the Snark in Reddit (/r/TheHuntingOfTheSnark) before the snrk.de blog was launched in autumn 2017. Some…

  • My 1st Snark Trophy 

    2017-09-11, 01:34

    On the left side of this comparison you see one of the nine illustrations by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). On the right…

    • Hell Mouth 

      2017-09-16, 17:53

      Les Visions du chevalier Tondal Detail from www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1502/simon-marmion-and-david-aubert-les-visions-du-chevalier-tondal-fr…

  • Terror 

    2017-09-10, 12:49

    In The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) Charles Darwin showed an engraving (Fig. 20,page 299) based on this photo by Benjamin Duchenne.…

  • The Bard 

    2017-09-09, 09:05

    : John Martin, The Bard (ca. 1817); by GIMP: contrast enhanced in the rock area & light areas delated. : Henry Holiday (engraver: Joseph Swain),…

  • Sphinx 

    2017-09-08, 21:06

    This is a comparison of four works of art (the first of them is shown together with the preparatory draft). Each of them perhaps is unusual in itself. But…

  • Etymology of Snark 

    2017-09-06, 22:00

    The word "snarking" already has been used in the year 1866. Now we know that the sounds produced by that stone are not quite like "snarking or gnashing".…

  • Crucifix 

    2017-09-06, 20:55

    On the right side of the side-by-side comparison shown above you see a pattern from an illustration (see also right side of the comparison image shown…

  • LCSNA Knight Letter 

    2017-08-30, 17:17

    Below you find links which are related to what you can find in the Knight Letter (ISSN 0193-886X, published by the LCSNA) about my Snark hunt: Burning…

    • Burning the Baker 

      2018-04-28, 12:06

        The images (click on them to read more) are related to my little article in the Knight Letter № 100 (July 2018, ISSN 0193-886X, published by the…

    • The Baker’s Uncle Yoda’s Relative is 

      2017-08-30, 17:32

      In the Knight Letter (№ 98, Spring 2017, page 40) there was a little notice about a post which I made in reddit.Gotz Kluge wondered out loud (in the Star…

    • Nose is a Nose is a Nose 

      2017-08-29, 22:47

      More links related to my Snark article in the Knight Letter (ISSN 0193-886X) of the LCSNA, Fall 2017, № 99: The article is online…

  • Lewis Carroll 

    2017-08-17, 09:41

    Photographic self portrait by Lewis Carroll, and its inclusion into an illustration by Henry Holiday and Joseph Swain (engraver) to Lewis Carroll's The…


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