The Hunting of the Snark
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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), was an English writer, mathematician, logician, deacon and photographer. He is most famous for his timeless classics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. His work falls within the genre of ‘literary nonsense’, and he is renowned for his use of word play and imagination. Carroll’s work has been enjoyed by many generations across the globe.
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The Hunting of the Snark - Lewis Carroll
Table of Contents
Preface
Fit the First: The Landing
Fit the Second: The Bellman’s Speech
Fit the Third: The Baker’s Tale
Fit the fourth: The Hunting
Fit the Fifth: The Beaver’s Lesson
Fit the Sixth: The Barrister’s Dream
Fit the Seventh: The Banker’s Fate
Fit the Eighth: The Vanishing
Preface
Table of Contents
If — and the thing is wildly possible — the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in p.4)
Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.
In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History — I will take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened.
The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished, and it more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it, that no one on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to. They knew it was not of the slightest use to appeal to the Bellman about it — he would only refer to his Naval Code, and read out in pathetic tones Admiralty Instructions which none of them had ever been