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150 Years of Snark

@snark150.bsky.social

Let's celebrate the sesquicentennial anniversary (snrk.de/150th-snark-anniversaries/) of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" in 2026. For Xwitter refugees: x[.]com/Snark150 ➜ @snarkhunt.bsky.social 2025-01-20

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · last wk.

HOORAY! On BBC Radio 4 Extra Fri 14 Aug 2026 15:00 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sbrxh

The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
Drama on 4

Tony Robinson narrates this fresh adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic masterpiece following a strange assortment of characters on their quest for an elusive beast.

Led by a bell-ringing Captain, this motley crew must brave terrifying danger in their chaotic pursuit of a creature known as Snark. Accompanied by specially composed music and songs, this surreal tale questions whether anything is really what it seems.

Music and songs composed by Katie Chatburn

Music performed by Katie Chatburn, Dorry Macaulay, Kathryn Williams, Stephen Cordiner and Jasper Wilkinson

Director: Charlotte Riches.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2015.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sbrxh

"We're hunting the Snark"

Duration: 01:29

Credits
Role Contributor
Narrator Tony Robinson
Bellman Eric Potts
Baker Paul Barnhill
Butcher Everal A Walsh
Barrister Jonathan Keeble
Snark Jonathan Keeble
Beaver Stephen Hoyle
Director Charlotte Riches
Author Lewis Carroll

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sbrxh

Broadcasts

Christmas Day 2015 14:15
BBC Radio 4
Mon 2 Apr 2018 14:15
BBC Radio 4
Thu 2 Jan 2020 11:15
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Thu 2 Jan 2020 21:15
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Fri 14 Aug 2026 15:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Fri 14 Aug 2026 21:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Sat 15 Aug 2026 05:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · last wk.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3qb...

Spring 2026 (1) - Mike Batt's Latest Developments on his Snark (LCSNA)

YouTube video by Lewis Carroll Society of North America (LCSNA)

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SNARK!@snark.games · 4mo ago

Four Snarkapalooza prizes. One of them is a "SNARK!" card game (snrk.de/snarkapalooz...).

Lewis Carroll Society of North America II

What's better than a fun, informative event celebrating the 150th anniversary of The Hunting of the Snark? How about a fun, informative event celebrating the 150th anniversary of The Hunting of the Snark WITH DOOR PRIZES?? For attendees only, so tune in this Sunday March 29 to learn how to enter to win!

SNARK!@snark.games · 5mo ago

SNARK-poster.png (2.64 MB): 12000×9000 drive.proton.me/urls/YY07WXS...

SNARK-poster.png (2.64 MB): 12000×9000
https://drive.proton.me/urls/YY07WXSK2M#NLdKG7gAjq5b

Licenses for the SNARK! game:
※ Rules: CC-BY-SA 4.0 by Jeremy Jexon Secker
※ Artwork: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 by Xanna Eve Chown

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On occasion of the Snark's 150th anniversary I want to revive the legacy card game SNARK! on virtual desktops. The game creators support this project. @snark.games

SNARK!@snark.games · 6mo ago

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #games #videogames #computergames #cardgames #game #videogame #computergame #cardgame #gamedesign #underdevelopment snrk.de/zzota-snark/

=== https://snrk.de/zzota-snark/ ===

SNARK!, created by ZZOTA in 2006, is a card game based on Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark”. Jeremy Jexon Secker defined the rules in 1985. The beautiful design of the cards is by Xanna Eve Chown.

Sadly, ZZOTA vanished away in 2017.

The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · last mo.

The rules for ZZOTA's "SNARK!" seem to be quite challenging. And I am very slow in generating virtual playing cards from my scans of the original cards. Nevertheless, if you can imagine playing the game (snrk.de/the-snark-ru...) for 2 to 4 players on a virtual desktop, please follow @snark.games.

The SNARK! rules – The Hunting of the Snark

snrk.de

SNARK!@snark.games · 5mo ago

1a/🧵 I rescanned the rules of the SNARK! card game. ※ 10 MB PDF file: snrk.de/wp-content/u... ※ Text: snrk.de/the-snark-ru...

Rules of JJ Secker and Xanna Eve Chown's SNARK! card game.

※ 10 MB PDF file: https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SNARKrules.pdf
※ Text: https://snrk.de/the-snark-rules/

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mae Losasso thinks that "The Hunting of the Snark" probably has been written in response to his godson’s death from tuberculosis at the age of 22. But this just is one of many assumptions. @theobserveruk.bsky.social missed the 150th Snark anniversary.

The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 4w ago

Down the rabbit hole In Oxford, 4 July is Alice’s Day, when the city briefly turns into Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland Words by Mae Losasso https://bit.ly/4pfl3i8

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · last mo.

Now I understand. Donald Trump‘s way to serve the Snark with greens in a pool is that Republican felon‘s clumsy way to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” in 1876.

Dr Ian McCormick@wokestudies.bsky.social · last mo.

" I engage with the Snark—every night after dark— In a dreamy delirious fight: I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes, And I use it for striking a light:" ---Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark. #Trump #algae #pool #satire

Trump’s Unsupported Claims About Reflection Pool Vandalism
https://www.factcheck.org/2026/06/trumps-unsupported-claims-about-reflection-pool-vandalism/

JGLG @jglg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Snark 150. Vídeo de la Jornada Snark celebrada en la Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona en torno a «The Hunting of the Snark» de Lewis Carroll. Con participación de sus traductores al catalán, euskera, gallego y castellano, y otros destacados carrollianos. traduccionliteraria.org/alicia/delic...

Facultat de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge de la UPF @traduccioupf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Jornada que organitza el TRILCAT (Grup de Recerca en Traducció, Recepció i Literatura Catalana) «150 anys de l'Snark de Lewis Carroll. Exercicis de traducció. DELÍCIES D’ALÍCIA 3»: 📆 Dilluns 11 de maig del 2026 🕦 16:00 🚩 Sala 55.309 (Campus del Poblenou - UPF) ℹ️ tuit.cat/aew7i

11/05/2026 150 anys de l'Snark de Lewis Carroll. Exercicis de traducció - Departament | Facultat de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge - UPF

DELÍCIES D’ALÍCIA 3

tuit.cat

The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

To you, was the "Boots" a "maker of Bonnets and Hoods" when you read (or listened to) Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" as a child?

From Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark', pages 4 and 5.
In the image (source: https://archive.org/details/huntingofsnarkag00carrrich/page/4/mode/2up), lines 009 (https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#009) and 010 (https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#009) are highlighted.

009　 The crew was complete: it included a Boots —
010　　A maker of Bonnets and Hoods —
011　 A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes —
012　　And a Broker, to value their goods.

013　 A Billiard-marker, whose skill was immense,
014　　Might perhaps have won more than his share —
015　 But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense,
016　　Had the whole of their cash in his care.

017　 There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck,
018　　Or would sit making lace in the bow:
019　 And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck,
020　　Though none of the sailors knew how.

The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A maker of bonnets and hoods isn't necessarily a hatter, because bonnets and hoods aren't necessarily hats. www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1saigeb/comment/oecccx0/

GoetzKluge
OP
2026-04-05

By the way, a maker of bonnets and hoods isn't necessarily a hatter, because bonnets and hoods aren't necessarily hats.

In the image below you can see a ventilation hood behind a sail. The sail could be a bonnet (an extension to the lower edge of an existing sail), which is connected to the bowsprit which (as Snark readers know) got mixed with the rudder sometimes. Once the ship has been snarked in that manner, the helmsman (this office was usually undertaken by the Boots) used to stand by with tears in his eyes; he knew it was all wrong, but alas!

In the image you also see the Beaver making lace in the bow. The bowsprit and the bonnet are positioned behind the animal. It seems that sometimes the maker of bonnets had to ferociously plan a novel arrangement of bows.

The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In Sporn’s animated "The Hunting of the Snark" (1989), the “Boots — a maker of Bonnets and Hoods” is boarding the Bellman’s vessel as a single person. To Sporn, there are only nine Snark hunters, not ten. More: snrk.de/michael-spor...

It seems that since 1876 most readers of "The Hunting of the Snark" assume that the Snark hunting party consists of ten members. But in Michael Sporn‘s beautiful animated Snark film (1989), there are only nine Snark hunters, not ten. In Sporn’s film, the “Boots — a maker of Bonnets and Hoods” is boarding the Bellman’s vessel as a single person.

I learned about this from u/DrSousaphone on Reddit.

Source (2026-03-30): https://snrk.de/michael-sporns-snark/

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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K.G. Jewell @kg-jewell.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

@sennoma awesome!

hand washing poster set to the first few lines of Jabberwoky:
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 3mo ago

snrk.de/150th-snark-...

Jordi Quintana i Albalat @jquintana7.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Als 150 anys de «The Hunting of the Snark» de Lewis Carrol els de Delícies d’Alícia organitzem la jornada «150 anys de l’Snark de Lewis Carroll. Exercicis de traducció» l'11.05.2026, a Barcelona, UPF, edifici Tànger, c/Tànger, 122-140, aula 55.309 a les 16 h. Snark, Merma, Tiburente, Snarka, Sauró

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In libreriadelmare.it/blog/libri/l... they copied my assemblage (in snrk.de/snarkhunt) without attribution.

@byopiapress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of its first publication, Byopia Press presents a DIY edition of 'The Hunting of the Snark'. Instructions in two posts. Find the first here: byopiapress.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t... #ByopiaPress #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #BookBinding #BookArts

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 4mo ago

No joke but with jokes: On 1st of April, 2026, #OTD, "The Hunting of the Snark" celebrates the official 150th anniversary of its publishing. One of the jokes is that Lewis Carroll left it in lines 9 and 10 to you to decide whether there are 9 or 10 Snark hunters (snrk.de?s=9.5).

No joke but with jokes: On 1st of April, 2026, #OTD, "The Hunting of the Snark" celebrates the official 150th anniversary of its publishing by Macmillan. One of the jokes is that Lewis Carroll left it in the lines 9 and 10 of his Snark tragicomedy to you to decide whether there are 9 Snark hunters or 10 (https://snrk.de/?s=9.5). I chose 9. What is your choice?

Image: Depiction of 9 Snark hunters in two illustrations by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".

See also: https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#portmanteau

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Following the Delícies d'Alícia series held in 2016 and 2017 at the University of Barcelona, dedicated to "Alice" and the "Jabberwocky," comes the third edition, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Hunting of the Snark."

JGLG@jglg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tras las Delícies d'Alícia celebradas en 2016 y 2017 en la Universidad de Barcelona y dedicadas a «Alicia» y el «Jabberwocky», llega la tercera edición, que celebra los 150 años de la publicación de «The Hunting of the Snark». Barcelona, 11-V-2026, 16 h. Edificio Tánger, Universidad Pompeu Fabra.

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 4mo ago

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Snark Staring Mad

Forthcoming in Law and Literature

37 Pages Posted: 27 Aug 2025
Elijah Z. Granet

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: July 01, 2025
Abstract

Lewis Carroll's poem "The Barrister's Fit", contained in The Hunting of the Snark (1876), consists of nonsense and absurdity applied to the lens of the law. Yet, examining the real law, both in Carroll's time and after, reveals that absurdity and nonsense are essential components of the Anglo-American legal system. Thus, this Article shows, through the lens of Carroll's dreamworld, that the most effective and accurate literary satire of the legal system may be through nonsense literature, which alone captures how little sense the law makes even to those of us who practice it. This draft (the last before proofs) completed in July 2025. Please excuse any minor errors, many of which were caught in the subsequent galley proof process.

Keywords: law, literature, law and literature, lewis carroll, legal studies

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Celebrating the Snark's 150th anniversary with a Haskell truth checker: What I tell you three times is true! www.reddit.com/r/LewisCarro...

Celebrating the Snark's 150th anniversary with a Haskell truth checker: What I tell you three times is true!

https://www.reddit.com/r/LewisCarroll/comments/1s6u2ty/celebrating_the_snarks_150th_anniversary_with_a/

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Today (March 29th, 2026) we can start to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark". Carroll distributed first editions of his Snark tragicomedy to selected friends and family before the official publication date. Macmillan officially published the poem on April 1st, 1876, but Carroll prepared 80 presentation copies on March 29th, 1876, many of which he signed and gave away.

On occasion of the 150th anniversary of Carroll's long Snark poem and Holiday's Snark illustrations, I now provide you with a tool for which our snarked world has been waiting since the big bang (or even earlier). The tool checks assertions in a table of assertionsbased on the Bellman's rule: "What I tell you three times is true!". The function atLeastThrice yields all assertions which it can find at least three times in the assertions table.

The function uses a fact checking algorithm which also is used by the most powerful leaders of the world.

The function makes fact checking great again.
The function makes fact checking great again.
The function makes fact checking great again.

Here is my implementation of "What I tell you three times is true" in Haskell:

atLeastThrice :: [String] -> [String]
atLeastThrice assertions =
[head grp | grp <-
group $ sort assertions, length grp >= 3]

ChatGPT's explanation of atLeastThrice: "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)."

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On March 29th, 1876, Lewis Carroll distributed first editions of "The Hunting of the Snark" to selected friends and family. Macmillan officially published the poem on April 1st, 1876. www.reddit.com/r/LewisCarro...

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Snarkologist Volume 2, Fit 3, to be published on 2026-04-01: snarkology.net/journal/v2f3/

Lewis Carroll Resources (0n FB)
Mark Russell Richards

"This year we are all celebrating the 150th anniversary of The Hunting of the Snark! Just as the original poem was published on 1 April, we are pleased to announce that the new issue of The Snarkologist - Volume 2, Fit 3 - will be published on 1 April 2026. In recognition of this special year, this is a bumper edition - 52 pages, including illustrated card covers, with numerous illustrations throughout printed in colour. With great articles, artworks, interviews, reviews and many other pieces, it is a great way to celebrate the anniversary.

https://snarkology.net/journal

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 4mo ago

=== Snarkapalooza === 2026-03-29: Webinar by Lewis Carroll Society of North America (LCSNA, aliceamerica.bsky.social) on occasion of the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark". www.lewiscarroll.org/event/snarka...

https://www.lewiscarroll.org/event/snarkapalooza/

Snarkapalooza Program:
https://www.lewiscarroll.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Snarkapalooza-Program-Final.pdf

=== Snarkapalooza ===

MARCH 29, 2026

Pre-Show 11:30 AM PT / 2:30 PM ET / 7:30 PM UK

Welcome 12:00 PM pT / 3:00 Et / 8:00 PM UK

Macy Grove 12:15 PM PT / 3:15 PM ET / 8:15 PM UK
Playing in Nonsense: The Joy of Adapting T.H.O.T.S.

Elijah Granet 12:50 PM PT/ 3:50 PM ET / 8:50 PM UK
Snark Raving Mad: Law in “The Barrister’s Fit”

David Elliot 1:40 PM PT / 4:40 PM ET / 9:40 PM UK
Beyond the Tulgey Wood

Social Hour 2:40 PM PT / 5:40 PM ET / 10:40 PM UK

presented by
the Lewis Carroll Society of Northe America (LCNSA)

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lee Hodges "Illustrations for 'Hunting of the Snark'", 2016 leeho.co.uk/hunting-of-t...

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Susanna Johnston’s "The Secret of the Snark" (ISBN 9781919435800) will be available soon, but I didn't find any registration via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special... yet.