"SM-62 Snark The Northrop SM-62 ""Snark"" was an early-model intercontinental range ground-launched cruise missile that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead. The Snark was deployed by the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command from 1958 through 1961. It represented an important step in weapons technology during the Cold War. The Snark took its name from the author Lewis Carroll's character the ""snark"". The Snark missile was developed to present a nuclear deterrent to the Soviet Union and other potential enemies at a time when Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) were still in development. The Snark was the only surface-to-surface cruise"
"Gertrude Chataway Gertrude Chataway (1866–1951) was the most important child-friend in the life of the author Lewis Carroll, after Alice Liddell. It was Gertrude who inspired his great nonsense mock-epic ""The Hunting of the Snark"" (1876), and the book is dedicated to her, and opens with a poem that uses her name as a double acrostic. Carroll first became friends with Gertrude in 1875, when she was aged nine and he was forty-three, while on holiday at the English seaside resort of Sandown. He made a number of pen and ink sketches of Gertrude as a young girl. He continued"
"to correspond with her, and to spend numerous seaside holidays with her, including several when she was in her late twenties. Gertrude Chataway Gertrude Chataway (1866–1951) was the most important child-friend in the life of the author Lewis Carroll, after Alice Liddell. It was Gertrude who inspired his great nonsense mock-epic ""The Hunting of the Snark"" (1876), and the book is dedicated to her, and opens with a poem that uses her name as a double acrostic. Carroll first became friends with Gertrude in 1875, when she was aged nine and he was forty-three, while on holiday at the English"
"Hunting the Snark Hunting the Snark is a compendium of poetic terminology that mirrored American contemporary poetry of nineteen seventies and eighties written by Robert Peters. The book sorts through contemporary American poems, separating them into nearly a hundred categories. The book’s foreword is written by founder of the ""New York Quarterly"", William M. Packard. He says, “""Hunting the Snark"" is an extraordinarily well-informed, joyous encomium to poetry itself. It displays the variety and diversity of our contemporary American scene.” His classifications are concepts like: ""Sylvia Plath Poems"", ""Wise Child poems"", ""Snapshot Poems"", ""Academic Sleaze"", ""Fruits-and-Flower-Poems"", ""Ezra Pound poems"", ""Jazz"
"""The Hunting of the Snark"" with the illness of Carroll's cousin and godson, the twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wilcox. On 17 July 1874, Carroll travelled to Guildford, Surrey, to care for him for six weeks, while the young man struggled with tuberculosis. The next day, while taking a walk in the morning after only a few hours of sleep, Carroll thought of the poem's final line: ""For the Snark ""was"" a Boojum, you see."" Fuller Torrey and Judy Miller suggest that the event that inspired the poem was the sudden death of Carroll's beloved uncle, Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge, caused by a"
"""Dreamsnake""; it is also mentioned in the ""Aztecs"", ""Starfarers"" series, and the ""Star Trek III"" novelization. In the ""Star Trek II"" novelization, one of the characters discusses a computer game he has written, named ""Boojum Hunt."" In ""Barbary"", a character refers to a computer game named ""Snarks and Boojums."" Both are references to Lewis Carroll's poem ""The Hunting of the Snark"". Vonda N. McIntyre Vonda Neel McIntyre (born August 28, 1948) is an American science fiction author. Vonda N. McIntyre was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of H. Neel and Vonda B. Keith McIntyre. She spent her early childhood"
"published by Macmillan in the United Kingdom in late March 1876, with illustrations by Henry Holiday. It had mixed reviews from reviewers who found it strange. The first printing of ""The Hunting of the Snark"" consisted of 10,000 copies. There were two reprintings by the conclusion of the year; in total, the poem was reprinted 17 times between 1876 and 1908. Carroll often denied knowing the meaning behind the poem; however, in an 1896 reply to one letter, he agreed with one interpretation of the poem as an allegory for the search for happiness. Scholars have found various meanings in"
"plays, and music, including one for trombone by Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim (1975) a jazz rendition (2009), and (in French translation—""La chasse au Snark"") with music by Michel Puig for five actresses, eight actors and an instrumental ensemble of five players, premiered at the Festival d'Avignon in 1971. The poem has inspired literature, such as Jack London's ""The Cruise of the Snark"" (1911), the science-fiction short story ""Chaos, Coordinated"" (1947) by John MacDougal, Elsabeth Huxley's ""With Forks and Hope"" (1964) and the title of Kate Wilhelm's novela ""With Thimbles, with Forks and Hope."" American author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was fond"
"gives ""1872"" as the date of publication.) Its somewhat darker mood possibly reflects changes in Dodgson's life. His father's death in 1868 plunged him into a depression that lasted some years. In 1876, Dodgson produced his next great work, ""The Hunting of the Snark"", a fantastical ""nonsense"" poem exploring the adventures of a bizarre crew of nine tradesmen and one beaver, who set off to find the snark. It received largely mixed reviews from Carroll's contemporary reviewers, but was enormously popular with the public, having been reprinted seventeen times between 1876 and 1908, and has seen various adaptations into musicals,"
"follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, an animal which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. The only one of the crew to find the Snark quickly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that it was a Boojum after all. The poem is dedicated to young Gertrude Chataway, whom Carroll met at the English seaside town Sandown in the Isle of Wight in 1875. Included with many copies of the first edition of the poem was Carroll's religious tract, ""An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves ""Alice"""". ""The Hunting of the Snark"" was"
"The Cruise of the Snark The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the ""Snark"". Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii, and his first-person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the beginning of"
"(""The Hunting of the Snark""). One of the front pages states (quote): This may be confusing. Some library records for ""Phantasmagoria and Other Poems"", and other sources concerning that title, provide a list of contents that includes the four poems first published in 1883. That is because Macmillan re-used the old title ""Phantasmagoria and Other Poems"" for a different collection in 1911 and stated on its title page: ""First published in 1869."" In fact it is a reissue of ""Rhyme? and Reason?"" except that ""The Hunting of the Snark"" is omitted. See Ebook #651 at Project Gutenberg, whose source is"
"Wonderland"", and mentions of ""candle-ends"" and ""toasted cheese"" with his supernatural poem ""Phantasmagoria"". Additionally all three works include the number ""42"". Another of Carroll's children's novels, ""Sylvie and Bruno Concluded"" (1893) makes a reference to the Boojum. Other illustrators of ""The Hunting of the Snark"" include Peter Newell (1903), Edward A. Wilson (1932), Mervyn Peake (1941), Aldren Watson (1952), Tove Jansson (1959), Helen Oxenbury (1970), Byron Sewell (1974), John Minnion (1974), Harold Jones (1975), Ralph Steadman (1975), Quentin Blake (1976), Frank Hinder (1989) and Brian Puttock (1997). ""The Hunting of the Snark"" has seen various adaptations into musicals, opera, theatre,"
"Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. One source indicates that the dialogue in fact began as an ad lib by actor Joseph Cawthorn, covering for some kind of backstage problem during a performance. The Word is also referred in one of the Little Nemo comic strips published in 1909 (April 11). After being held down by nine policemen during a hysteria crisis, Nemo’s father tells the doctor: “Just keep those whiffenpoofs away. Will you?”. Despite the show's success, it failed to make back its investment due to its enormous expenses, and came to an end in December 1910. In"
"Jacques Roubaud Jacques Roubaud (; born 5 December 1932 in Caluire-et-Cuire, Rhône) is a French poet and mathematician. Jacques Roubaud was a professor of Mathematics at University of Paris X. He is a retired Poetry professor from EHESS and a member of the Oulipo group, he has also published poetry, plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as Lewis Carroll's ""The Hunting of the Snark"". French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had Roubaud's first book, a collection of mathematically structured sonnets, published by Éditions Gallimard, and then invited Roubaud to join the Oulipo as the organization's"
"Bandersnatch A bandersnatch is a fictional creature in Lewis Carroll's 1872 novel ""Through the Looking-Glass"" and his 1874 poem ""The Hunting of the Snark"". Although neither work describes the appearance of a bandersnatch in great detail, in ""The Hunting of the Snark"", it has a long neck and snapping jaws, and both works describe it as ferocious and extraordinarily fast. ""Through the Looking-Glass"" implies that bandersnatches may be found in the world behind the looking-glass, and in ""The Hunting of the Snark"", a bandersnatch is found by a party of adventurers after crossing an ocean. Bandersnatches have appeared in various"
"Bandersnatch A bandersnatch is a fictional creature in Lewis Carroll's 1872 novel ""Through the Looking-Glass"" and his 1874 poem ""The Hunting of the Snark"". Although neither work describes the appearance of a bandersnatch in great detail, in ""The Hunting of the Snark"", it has a long neck and snapping jaws, and both works describe it as ferocious and extraordinarily fast. ""Through the Looking-Glass"" implies that bandersnatches may be found in the world behind the looking-glass, and in ""The Hunting of the Snark"", a bandersnatch is found by a party of adventurers after crossing an ocean. Bandersnatches have appeared in various"
"letters asking for the meaning of the poem, Carroll often replied that he did not know. However, in an 1896 reply to one letter, he agreed with one interpretation of the poem as an allegory for the search for happiness. Widely varying interpretations of ""The Hunting of the Snark"" have been suggested: an allegory for tuberculosis, a mockery of the Tichborne case, a satire of the controversies between religion and science, the repression of Carroll's sexuality, and a piece against vivisection, among others. According to Cohen, the poem represents a ""voyage of life"", with the Baker's disappearance caused by his"
"As a great admirer of Lewis Carroll Elliot also produced illustrations for ""The Hunting of the Snark"" (Private Press edition, with the University of Otago in Dunedin, 2006). Elliot has also collaborated on two books with New Zealand's best loved children's writer and winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, Margaret Mahy, ""The Word Witch"" and ""The Moon and Farmer McPhee"", which won the award for the best children's book in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards in 2011. More recently, Elliot wrote and illustrated ""Snark: being a true history of the expedition that discovered the Snark and the"
"voyage. } The Cruise of the Snark The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the ""Snark"". Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii, and his first-person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the"
"Scholar Selwyn Goodacre speculates that, as many copies of first-edition of the poem contain the tract, there is a possibility that all first editions originally had a copy of ""An Easter Greeting"". The first printing of ""The Hunting of the Snark"" consisted of 10,000 copies. By the conclusion of 1876, it had seen two reprints, with a total of 18,000 or 19,000 copies circulating. In total, the poem was reprinted seventeen times between 1876 and 1908. ""The Hunting of the Snark"" received largely mixed reviews from Carroll's contemporary reviewers. ""The Academy""s Andrew Lang criticised Carroll's decision to use poetry instead"
"favourite young friends; in a typical fashion, he signed them with short poems, many of them acrostics of the child's name. He dedicated ""The Hunting of the Snark"" to Chataway, whom he had befriended in summer 1875 at the English seaside town Sandown on the Isle of Wight. He finished the dedication a month after befriending her, a double acrostic poem that not only spelled out her name, but contained a syllable of her name in the first line of each stanza. The stanza of his first draft concluded """"Rest on a friendly knee, the tale to ask / That"
"and dreams of witnessing a court trial of a pig accused of deserting its sty. During the hunt, the Banker is attacked by a bandersnatch, and loses his sanity after trying to bribe the creature. The Baker rushes ahead of the party, and calls out that he has found a snark, but when the others arrive, he has mysteriously disappeared, leading the narrator to explain: ""For the Snark ""was"" a Boojum, you see."" Two explanations of which event in Carroll's life gave rise to ""The Hunting of the Snark"" have been offered. Biographer Morton N. Cohen connects the creation of"
"violation of the laws of nature by hoping to unravel its mysteries. Lennon sees ""The Hunting of the Snark"" as ""a tragedy of frustration and bafflement,"" comparable to British actor Charlie Chaplin's early comedies. According to Kelly, ""The Hunting of the Snark"" is ""Carroll's comic rendition of his fears of disorder and chaos, with the comedy serving as a psychological defense against the devastating idea of personal annihilation."" Kelly writes that the Bellman's Rule of Three and starting each character's name with the letter B are ""notable attempts to create a sense of order and meaning out of chaos."" Martin"
"Becker Lennon, the poem's ""motif of loss of name or identity"" is typical of Carroll's work. Richard Kelly writes that the poem contains a ""theme of annihilation."" Furthermore, Edward Guiliano feels that the ""Snark"" is within the nonsense tradition of Thomas Hood and, especially, W. S. Gilbert, the librettist of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan team. According to him, a case can be made for a direct influence of Gilbert's Bab Ballads on ""The Hunting of the Snark"", based on the fact that Carroll was well-acquainted with the comic writing and the theatre of his age. In response to various"
"Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and its sequel ""Through the Looking-Glass"". He was noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. The poems ""Jabberwocky"" and ""The Hunting of the Snark"" are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon. Carroll came from a family of high church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for"
"The Hunter (Stark novel) The Hunter (1962) is a crime thriller novel, written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark. It is the first of the Parker novels. Parker is a professional criminal, specializing in armed robbery. The pattern of his life is to commit a lucrative heist, live well in luxury hotels for a period of months or years with his wife, Lynn, then commit another heist when necessary. This pattern is disrupted when he is convinced, against his better judgment, to join a ""crew"" in California, planning to heist a shipment of cash intended for an"
"The Secrets of Angling The Secrets of Angling was a book written by John Dennys. It was the earliest English poetical treatise on fishing, first published in 1613 in London. A didactic pastoral poem in 3 books, in the style of Virgil's Georgics. It was published in 4 editions until 1652, examples of which are amongst the rarest books in existence. Dennys's poem was published anonymously, 4 years posthumously, and for 198 years the poem was misattributed, its authorship remaining a mystery until 1811. First published in 1613, Dennys's book was published after his death. The author was identified by"
"The Snake (novel) The Snake (1964) is Mickey Spillane's eighth novel featuring private investigator Mike Hammer. The novel picks up where exactly where ""The Girl Hunters"" left off. Hammer has discovered the location of his long-lost love and secretary, Velda. In a race against the clock, Hammer tries to move Velda from the location as soon as possible, only to find that she is harboring a 21-year-old runaway who is fearing for her life. Before they vacate the premises, they are attacked by two assassins, who they later discover are working independently of each other. Hammer quickly dispatches one of"
"The narrative of the various versions of the story are frequently punctuated with excerpts from the ""Guide"". The voice of the ""Guide"" (Peter Jones in the first two radio series and TV versions, later William Franklyn in the third, fourth and fifth radio series, and Stephen Fry in the movie version), also provides general narration. The first radio series of six episodes (called ""Fits"" after the names of the sections of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem ""The Hunting of the Snark"") was broadcast in 1978 on BBC Radio 4. Despite a low-key launch of the series (the first episode was broadcast"
"good luck. His second album, 1986's ""The Secret Value of Daydreaming"", was panned by critics. However, it reached number 32 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart, and produced the single ""Stick Around"", which was Lennon's first number 1 single on the US Album Rock Tracks chart. He recorded the song ""Because"", previously recorded by The Dave Clark Five, in the UK for Clark's 1986 musical ""Time"". On 1 April 1987, Julian Lennon appeared as the Baker in Mike Batt's musical ""The Hunting of the Snark"" (based on Lewis Carroll's poem). The all-star lineup included Roger Daltrey, Justin Hayward and Billy Connolly,"
"design a new family home in Branch Hill, Hampstead, which was named ""Oak Tree House"" - in 1888, William Gladstone himself was a visitor. In January 1874, Holiday was commissioned by Lewis Carroll to illustrate ""The Hunting of the Snark"". He remained friends with the author throughout his life. Holiday's illustration to the chapter ""The Banker's Fate"" might contain pictorial references to the etching ""The Image Breakers"" by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, to William Sidney Mount's painting ""The Bone Player"" and to a photograph by Benjamin Duchenne used for a drawing in Charles Darwin's ""The Expression of Emotions in Man"
"celebrated poems including ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"", ""Casey at the Bat"", ""The Night Before Christmas"", and ""The Hunting of the Snark""; the last was also written by Lewis Carroll. Gardner wrote two novels. He was a perennial fan of the Oz books written by L. Frank Baum, and in 1988 he published ""Visitors from Oz"", based on the characters in Baum's various Oz books. Gardner was a founding member of the International Wizard of Oz Club, and winner of its 1971 L. Frank Baum Memorial Award. His other novel was ""The Flight of Peter Fromm"" (1973), which reflected"