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 "Just the place for a Snark!" |
 "I engage with the Snark every night after dark in a dreamy, delirious fight..." | |
 "'Tis the voice of the Jubjub!" |
 ...Erect and sublime, for one moment of time... | |
The Hunting of the Snark - an agony in eight fits is, next
to Alice, the best book Lewis Carroll wrote. It's a long,
nonsensical epic poem, describing the quest of eight characters
(all of whose names begin with a B) for a mysterious creature,
the Snark. I made these illustrations in 1976. There are four
others - one for each fit - but those drawings didn't turn out
too well.
The complete poem - with the original illustrations, but without
the dedicatory poem and the preface - can be found at this site
More on Lewis Carroll: www.lewiscarroll.org
See also my illustrations for Jabberwocky
Even better illustrations: justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com
| © 2001 Frits van der Waa |
