SnarkedPersonalities

===== All Nonsense? =====

If you want to be on the safe side, then claim that The Hunting of the Snark is complete nonsense. That claim is cool and difficult to reject.

But the nonsense may be not that complete: u1.ipernity.com/38/77/73/27197773.d636613a.xls?download=SnarkedPersonalities.xls

In the table,
Bellman, Boots, Baker, Butcher, Beaver, Banker, Barrister, Bonnetmaker, Broker, Billard marker, Hope, Care, Snark and Boojum
are associated with
Charles Darwin, Thomas Cranmer, St. Corbinian, The Bard, George Liddell, Benjamin Jowett, Henry Holiday, God (not to be depicted by the illustrator), Father Time (allegory), Religion (allegory), Liberty (allegory).

Further associations:
- 42 boxes: 42 Articles of the Anglican Church
- Baker's 7 coats: 7 sacraments
- Baker's 3 pairs of boots: Trinity
- Jubjub: a clock, a chronometer, or time in general
- Breakfast at five-o’clock tea; breakfast at location with ca. OxfordTime+8
- Bathing machines: Dr. James Gully's water cure (Darwin)
- Lace making; dissection, vivisection (used by Darwin)
- Forks: tuning forks (Darwins experiments with spiders)

CLD's contemporaries in Henry Holiday's Snark illustrations?:
- Charles Darwin and the Banker
- Charles Darwin and the Bellman
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) on the rocks
- Henry Holiday and the maker of Bonnets and Hoods
- Benjamin Jowett and the Butcher
- Henry George Liddell and the Billiard-marker