150 Years of Snark
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Let's celebrate the two coming sesquicentennial anniversaries (snrk.de/150th-snark-anniversaries/) of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" in 2025 & 2026.
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2025-01-20
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2025-01-20
When C. L. Dodgson proposed his method, he perhaps didn't know Borda and Condorcet's systems. Anyway, I like how Dodgson/Carroll presented his voting system.
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#voting #LewisCarroll
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#voting #LewisCarroll
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«At last the Dodo said, ‘Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’»:
※ snrk.de/Gutenberg/Al....
C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) didn't like voting systems where the winners get all the prizes. He favorized prizes with proportional sizes for all candidates:
※ archive.org/details/TheP....
※ snrk.de/Gutenberg/Al....
C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) didn't like voting systems where the winners get all the prizes. He favorized prizes with proportional sizes for all candidates:
※ archive.org/details/TheP....
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
When C. L. Dodgson proposed his method, he perhaps didn't know Borda and Condorcet's systems. Anyway, I like how Dodgson/Carroll presented his voting system.
See also: snrk.de/the-mathemat...
#voting #LewisCarroll
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See also: snrk.de/the-mathemat...
#voting #LewisCarroll
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«At last the Dodo said, ‘Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’»:
※ snrk.de/Gutenberg/Al....
C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) didn't like voting systems where the winners get all the prizes. He favorized prizes with proportional sizes for all candidates:
※ archive.org/details/TheP....
※ snrk.de/Gutenberg/Al....
C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) didn't like voting systems where the winners get all the prizes. He favorized prizes with proportional sizes for all candidates:
※ archive.org/details/TheP....
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
If it would be a Lewis Carroll government, it wouldn’t be as evil as the GOP regime.
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
If it would be a Lewis Carroll government, it wouldn’t be as evil as the GOP regime.
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Today I made a discovery which lets me assume that the meaning of "snark" in 1831 was not too different from how we use the term today.
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#Etymology of #Snark
Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" was published in 1876.
Amos Eaton wrote to to John Torrey on September 21st, 1831: "We are like some old husband and wife, who scold each other, fret, snark, &c. But when either is in distress the other feels it to the heart."
Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" was published in 1876.
Amos Eaton wrote to to John Torrey on September 21st, 1831: "We are like some old husband and wife, who scold each other, fret, snark, &c. But when either is in distress the other feels it to the heart."
![Source: Amos Eaton and John Torrey correspondence, 1816-1840, by Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842
https://archive.org/details/amoseatonjohnto00eato/page/n224/mode/1up
«John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden
[...] Correspondence from Amos Eaton to John Torrey, dated 1816-1840. [...] In later years too, there are painful episodes of friction between Eaton and Torrey's protégé, Asa Gray. In the midst of a long tirade, however, Eaton pauses to reassure Torrey of his undying affection: "We are like some old husband and wife," he write in 1831[-09-21], "who scold each other, fret, snark, &c., but when either is in distress the other feels it to the heart." [...]»](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l6iae4tlmgtc4xzkeb3oyjrn/bafkreibqc4juvft5loqd4mpi6bqb4hssvxgiasqzj6wnxtrm2d5qj5lzbq@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Today I made a discovery which lets me assume that the meaning of "snark" in 1831 was not too different from how we use the term today.
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This also shows that the term “Snark” is older than Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson).
November 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This also shows that the term “Snark” is older than Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson).
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@theguardian.com, here you had been praised for snark.
Snark is fine, unless it's a Boojum.
The Guardian missed already two important 150th Snark anniversaries (bsky.app/profile/snar...). How will you celebrate the third one in spring 2026? Or did you "cancel" any Carroll stuff?
Snark is fine, unless it's a Boojum.
The Guardian missed already two important 150th Snark anniversaries (bsky.app/profile/snar...). How will you celebrate the third one in spring 2026? Or did you "cancel" any Carroll stuff?
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
@theguardian.com, here you had been praised for snark.
Snark is fine, unless it's a Boojum.
The Guardian missed already two important 150th Snark anniversaries (bsky.app/profile/snar...). How will you celebrate the third one in spring 2026? Or did you "cancel" any Carroll stuff?
Snark is fine, unless it's a Boojum.
The Guardian missed already two important 150th Snark anniversaries (bsky.app/profile/snar...). How will you celebrate the third one in spring 2026? Or did you "cancel" any Carroll stuff?
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Via instagram to BBC Radio 3: You already missed two 150th anniversaries (bsky.app/profile/snar...) of "The Hunting of the Snark". Please at least celebrate the 3rd one, the publication of the tragicomedy in March/April 1876. How about rebroadcasting your 2020 radio play (snrk.de/snark-radio-...)?
October 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Via instagram to BBC Radio 3: You already missed two 150th anniversaries (bsky.app/profile/snar...) of "The Hunting of the Snark". Please at least celebrate the 3rd one, the publication of the tragicomedy in March/April 1876. How about rebroadcasting your 2020 radio play (snrk.de/snark-radio-...)?
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The BBC probably didn't get it. Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" is a masterpiece which deserves more attention.
(At least a curator of the British Museum understood Henry Holiday's game: bm.snrk.de)
(At least a curator of the British Museum understood Henry Holiday's game: bm.snrk.de)
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The BBC probably didn't get it. Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" is a masterpiece which deserves more attention.
(At least a curator of the British Museum understood Henry Holiday's game: bm.snrk.de)
(At least a curator of the British Museum understood Henry Holiday's game: bm.snrk.de)
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More about Carroll's Snark cameo: snrk.de/lewis-carroll/
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
More about Carroll's Snark cameo: snrk.de/lewis-carroll/
This also shows that the term “Snark” is older than Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson).
November 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This also shows that the term “Snark” is older than Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson).
The movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" changed my life a littlelittlelittle bit. On the snake pit which once was Twitter, Joyce Carol Oates followed my (now hibernating) Snark account. But when I didn't agree to her scathing post about that movie, she blocked my account.
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" changed my life a littlelittlelittle bit. On the snake pit which once was Twitter, Joyce Carol Oates followed my (now hibernating) Snark account. But when I didn't agree to her scathing post about that movie, she blocked my account.
Perhaps the pre-Carroll meaning of Snark might come close to the the onomatopoeia "snarking".
Regrettably, I still don't know the sound of snarking. The report below (1866, snrk.de/page_etymolo...) only is about a sound which is ^not^ "like" snarking.
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Regrettably, I still don't know the sound of snarking. The report below (1866, snrk.de/page_etymolo...) only is about a sound which is ^not^ "like" snarking.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Perhaps the pre-Carroll meaning of Snark might come close to the the onomatopoeia "snarking".
Regrettably, I still don't know the sound of snarking. The report below (1866, snrk.de/page_etymolo...) only is about a sound which is ^not^ "like" snarking.
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Regrettably, I still don't know the sound of snarking. The report below (1866, snrk.de/page_etymolo...) only is about a sound which is ^not^ "like" snarking.
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How will the Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection at USC Libraries celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Hunting of the Snark" in 2026?
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
How will the Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection at USC Libraries celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Hunting of the Snark" in 2026?
Via instagram to BBC Radio 3: You already missed two 150th anniversaries (bsky.app/profile/snar...) of "The Hunting of the Snark". Please at least celebrate the 3rd one, the publication of the tragicomedy in March/April 1876. How about rebroadcasting your 2020 radio play (snrk.de/snark-radio-...)?
October 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Via instagram to BBC Radio 3: You already missed two 150th anniversaries (bsky.app/profile/snar...) of "The Hunting of the Snark". Please at least celebrate the 3rd one, the publication of the tragicomedy in March/April 1876. How about rebroadcasting your 2020 radio play (snrk.de/snark-radio-...)?
All episodes of the BBC radio drama "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" were referred to by Douglas Adams as "Fits", like in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits", where "Rule 42 of the Code" is quoted and 42 Boxes (snrk.de/category/cre...) are left behind.
October 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It's slow and easy to attack. However, the scattered debris of this perfidious weapon would be radioactively contaminated.
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It's slow and easy to attack. However, the scattered debris of this perfidious weapon would be radioactively contaminated.
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The lace making pillow is important: snrk.de/page_vivisec....
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The lace making pillow is important: snrk.de/page_vivisec....
The lace making pillow is important: snrk.de/page_vivisec....
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The lace making pillow is important: snrk.de/page_vivisec....
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Almost every reader of "The Hunting of the Snark" thinks that the hunting party consists of 10 Snark hunters. How unhinged is the opinion that there are only 9 hunters in Lewis Carroll's Snark tragicomedy?
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October 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Almost every reader of "The Hunting of the Snark" thinks that the hunting party consists of 10 Snark hunters. How unhinged is the opinion that there are only 9 hunters in Lewis Carroll's Snark tragicomedy?
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I recommend Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt).
October 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I recommend Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt).
It is interesting that this publisher produced a Snark edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the Macmillan publishing company in 1993, but seems not to be interested in celebrating the 150th anniversaries of Carroll and Holiday's tragicomedy.
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There are three important 150th anniversaries of “The Hunting of the Snark”. @panmacmillan.bsky.social already missed two of them.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It is interesting that this publisher produced a Snark edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the Macmillan publishing company in 1993, but seems not to be interested in celebrating the 150th anniversaries of Carroll and Holiday's tragicomedy.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM