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CubeRootOfTrueCubeRootOfTrue@mathstodon.xyz
2025-04-28

If your thoughts incline ever so little towards fuming,” you will say “fuming-furious;” if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards “furious,” you will say “furious-fuming;” but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say “frumious" -- Lewis Carroll

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let me try.

Redblueican
Democrapublican
Snarkocrat
Public Servant

OK the last one was mine, the rest were ChatGPT. Why do we need political parties again?

#Demopublicious #Boojum

The Hunting of the Snarksnarkhunt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-03-21

2025-03-21 On this day in 1556 Thomas Cranmer was burned at the stake. He hunted the Snark, but met the #Boojum. ※ snrk.de/page_thomas-... ※ snrk.de/page_seven-c... #OTD #OnThisDay #ThomasCranmer #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #42Articles #FortyTwoArticles #CoE #ChurchOfEngland

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vr3736rw7tegkvylmzm7m47v/post/3lhgbptu4is27

Krypto News Deutschlandkryptonews
2023-07-17

zkSync führt Boojum ein, um die Hardware-Barriere für Dezentralisierung zu senken. - Dezentralisierung nimmt bei zkSync einen weiteren Schritt nach vorne

Das Team von zkSync hat kürzlich ein Upgrade des schnellen Layer-2-Netzwerks auf...
krypto-news.net/krypto-news/zk

Snarkologysnarkology@zirk.us
2023-07-03

-> snrk.de/page_the-quest-of-the-

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #Snark #Boojum #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday #Grandville

Richard Weltynfgusedautoparts@en.osm.town
2023-01-20

"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
  What I tell you three times is true."
#Boojum

Snarkologysnarkology@zirk.us
2022-12-30

What is a #Snark? What is a #Boojum?

snrk.de/detour-to-the-boojum/

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark | #LewisCarroll | #SearchAfterHappiness | #PursuitOfHappiness | #Happiness

Snark: Neither the usage in the year 1866 nor the contemporary usage of the term help to understand the meaning of Carroll’s “Snark”. According to Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark has at least one meaning: The pursuit of happiness. To Carroll, that pursuit could be about the Anglican path to happiness. That path is “meagre and hollow, but crisp“, because it is void of any catholic decor and superstition. The dispute about how to achieve happiness is not always comfortable, but it is necessary, because for different people there always are different paths to happiness. In civilized societies the Snark helps us to find a path which optimizes our happiness. As people and their environments keep constantly changing, the Snark hunt will never end. Boojum: I think that Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday’s tragicomedy (a “tragedy” in Holiday’s opinion) is about how walking the meagre and hollow, but crisp path (Snark) towards happiness (whatever that might be) can turn into terrible fights with very sad ends (Boojum). Unfortunately, also in the 21st century too often good Snark hunters “softly and suddenly vanish away”. They and their work “disappear”, erased by those who walk along the path of the Boojum. It seems that this will never end as well. The Boojum is a monstrous process. Once you encounter it (for example at the violent end of a fierce controversy), then you might softly and suddenly vanish away. Thomas Cranmer’s fate is just one out of many examples for how Boojum works.
Snarkologysnarkology@zirk.us
2022-12-01

"Burning the Baker", LCSNA Knight Letter (lewiscarroll.org/publications/) № 100, Spring 2018, p. 55~56 (snrk.de/knight-letter-100/)

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark|#Snark|#Boojum|#HenryHoliday|#LewisCarroll|#VictorianLiterature|#ThomasCranmer|#42Articles|#FortyTwoArticles|#ReligSnark|#Protestants|#Catholics|#Reformation|#Church|#ChurchOfEngland|#CoE|#AnglicanChurch|#Anglican|#ChurchHistory|#Tudors|#EdwardVI|#HenryVIII|#MaryI|#TudorMary|#BloodyMary|#QueenMary|#Martyr|#Martyrs|#ThomasJenner|#スナーク

Burning the Baker by Goetz Kluge, 2018 I interpret Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday’s epic "The Hunting of the Snark" as a ballad about how man’s pursuit of happiness ends tragically when the struggle for the right path to the truth turns from legitimate dispute (Snark) into zealous fanaticism (Boojum). Too often, in the end, some seekers of happiness even get burned. Thomas Cranmer, a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I was put on trial for treason and heresy and imprisoned. He was forced to make several recantations. In 1556 he was burned at the stake in by “Blood Mary”. The Baker, the hero in "The Hunting of the Snark", left 42 boxes behind him, with his name painted clearly on each. A baker is exposed to heat. He answered to “Fry me!” or “Fritter my wig!” Intimate friends called him “Candle ends” and his enemies “Toasted cheese.” In his poem, Carroll gives us a very broad hint: This Baker got burned. We can see the final burning in Henry Holiday’s illustration to the last “fit” of the Snark poem (Fig. 1). In the circled area, a part of the Boojum seems to have seized the Baker’s wrist. Fig. 2, shows the stake and the fire burning Cranmer and several other Protestant martyrs, a detail from the seventeenthcentury engraving "Faith’s Victorie in Rome’s Crueltie" by Thomas Jenner. In both images you see a hand in a fire. This is the sad end of the hero of "The Hunting of the Snark".
Götz Klugefloh@zirk.us
2022-11-25

To me, Mastodon is technically better than Twitter already.

Nice to have would be #BooleanSearches like "#HenryHoliday AND (#Snark OR #Boojum)".

#FeatureRequest #MastodonFeatureRequest #MastodonFeatures #MastodonImprovement #TwitterMigration #BooleanSearch

Snarkologysnarkology@zirk.us
2022-11-14

#introduction: @snark (at mastodon.art) is my first Mastodon Microblog about Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt), @snarkology is the snarkologists' (e.g. from snarkology.net/) place in the more scholarly environment zirk.us.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday #Victodon #VictorianLit #VictorianLiterature #Victorian #VictorianStudies #NonsenseLiterature #Litstudies #Literature #EnglishLit #Boojum

archive.org/details/huntingofs

Henry Holiday's Snarksnark@mastodon.art
2022-11-12

#Introduction: The focus of @snark is on Henry Holiday's #illustrations (engraved by Joseph Swain) to Lewis Carroll's #tragicomedy "The Hunting of the Snark".

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark"
#HenryHoliday
#LewisCarroll
#Boojum
#Snark
#スナーク

As this is about Henry Holiday's Snark, I (#GötzKluge) am not the artist in this instance for creators, even though sometimes I draw something. (My neighbours said that I drew my #tröte better than I tooted it.)

"Tröte" is German slang for #trumpet.

Drawing of a small Trumpet

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