Holiday and Gheeraerts I
6 Sources to the Beaver's Lesson
Holiday - Millais- Anonymous - Galle, detail
Bankersnatched by the Bandersnatch
Snarked: Henry George Liddell
Henry George Liddell in "The Hunting of the Snark"
Darwin's Fireplace and the Baker's Dear Uncle
The Bellman and Sir Henry Lee (no marks)
IT WAS A BOOJUM (bw)
The Boojum sitting on some of the 42 boxes
TruthProof
Lacing Pillow
Thomas Cranmer's Burning
Nosemorph
Henry Holiday & John Martin
The Vanishing and the Gneiss Rock
The Bellman and Charles Darwin
Adriano Orefice: La cerca dello Squallo
Bellmen on the Rocks
The Butcher & the young Raleigh (details)
Bellman & Bard
Bellman & Bard
Bellman & Bard after retinex filtering
Where do Boojums live?
Bellman & Bard after retinex filtering
Holiday - Millais - Anonymous - Galle; detail
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The Broker's and the Monk's Nose
The Broker's and the Monk's Nose (with a little he…
Monster Nose
The Monster in the Branches
The Uncle over Darwin's Fireplace
Two Noses
So great was his fright that his waistcoat turned…
The Bankers Fate
Two Bone Players
Again: What I tell you three times is true!
IT WAS A BOOJUM
Herbs & Horses
White Spot
The Billiard marker
Snarked Workplace
The Billiard Marker & Henry George Liddell
Carroll's Barrister's Dream
Dream Snarks
Ceci n'est pas une cloche
Paradise Lost and the Beaver's Lesson
Darwins snarked Study
About my Snark hunt
John Martin's Bard and Henry Holiday's Snark Illus…
The Banker and The Bonnetmaker
Fun with Allusions
Grünewald and Holiday
Easter Greeting
Henry Holiday's Snark Hunt on Bēhance
Recycled Bellman Draft
Heads by Henry Holiday and Marcus Gheeraerts the E…
The removed "error" had a purpose
The Flaw was no Flaw
Beagle Laid Ashore & Snarked
Mary's and the Baker's Kerchiefs
The Expression of Emotions
Thomas Cranmer's Burning
Weeds turned Horses (2)
The Carpenter and Ahasuerus
From Doré's Root to Holiday's Rat
42 Boxes meet the Iconoclasts
Bellmen
Thumb & Lappet
Gnarly Monstrance
Bard and Bellman
Bonnet Head
Billiard-Marker & Henry George Liddell
Snark Hunt: Square One
Hidden Carrol
Thomas Cramer's hand?
"But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day, I sha…
The Snark in your Dreams
The Butcher and Benjamin Jowett
Beagle and Beagle?
The Bell?
Ditchley Snark
Ditchley Snark
IT WAS A BOOJUM
While he rattled a couple of bones
While he rattled a couple of bones
What I tell you three times is true!
Crossing the Line
Anne I?
Tree of Life
The Bellman and Father Time
Snark Hunting with the HMS Beagle
Inspiration by Reinterpretation
The Bellman and Sir Henry Lee
Star and Tail
William III, Religion and Liberty, Care and Hope
Darwin's Study and the Baker's Uncle
Kerchiefs and other shapes
Holiday - Millais - Anonymous - Galle
From Doré's Root to Holiday's Rat
Anne Hale Mrs. Hoskins
Anne Hale Mrs. Hoskins
42 Boxes, Sheep, Iconoclasm
Thomas Cranmer's 42 Boxes
With yellow kid gloves and a ruff
The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
The Paranoiac-Critical Method serves the Art of De…
Weeds turned Horses (BW)
Weeds turned Horses
Weeds turned Horses (detail)
Monster Face
Monster Feet
The Bard (detail)
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The Baker's 42 Boxes
(From Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's The Hunting of the Snark, 1876)
· · · · 021 · · There was one who was famed for the number of things
· · · · 022 · · · · He forgot when he entered the ship:
· · · · 023 · · His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,
· · · · 024 · · · · And the clothes he had bought for the trip.
· · · · 025 · · He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,
· · · · 026 · · · · With his name painted clearly on each:
· · · · 027 · · But, since he omitted to mention the fact,
· · · · 028 · · · · They were all left behind on the beach.
· · · · 029 · · The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because
· · · · 030 · · · · He had seven coats on when he came,
· · · · 031 · · With three pairs of boots--but the worst of it was,
· · · · 032 · · · · He had wholly forgotten his name.
· · · · 033 · · He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry,
· · · · 034 · · · · Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"
· · · · 035 · · To "What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!"
· · · · 036 · · · · But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"
· · · · 037 · · While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,
· · · · 038 · · · · He had different names from these:
· · · · 039 · · His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends,"
· · · · 040 · · · · And his enemies "Toasted-cheese."
· · · · 041 · · "His form is ungainly--his intellect small--"
· · · · 042 · · · · (So the Bellman would often remark)
· · · · 043 · · "But his courage is perfect! And that, after all,
· · · · 044 · · · · Is the thing that one needs with a Snark."
· · · · 045 · · He would joke with hyenas, returning their stare
· · · · 046 · · · · With an impudent wag of the head:
· · · · 047 · · And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,
· · · · 048 · · · · "Just to keep up its spirits," he said.
· · · · 049 · · He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late--
· · · · 050 · · · · And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad--
· · · · 051 · · He could only bake Bridecake--for which, I may state,
· · · · 052 · · · · No materials were to be had.
My assumption is, that in Carroll's ballad the Baker does not stand for a single person. Rather, he represents curageous (and - once the intellect is small but the courage is perfect - often uncautious) searchers of truth. Put more simply: The baker represents an attitude (or a set of attitudes), e.g. the attitudes of a Corbinian or a Thomas Cranmer, a key figure in the history of the reformation in Europe.
2013-02-02: In Carroll's description of the Baker (see parts printed in boldface), there may be some allusions to someone who got burned. As for "Bridecake", Thomas Cranmer also was (along with Thomas Cromwell) quite a bit involved in the weddings (and divorces) of Henry VIII. The forty-two boxes carried the Baker's name as clearly, as the Anglican Forty-Two Articles are associated with Thomas Cranmer. Here both, the Baker and Cranmer, stand for quite ambivalent heroes. Carroll (Rev. Dodgson) did not subscribe to the later Thirty-Nine Articles.
By the way: Lewis Carroll didn't explain what the number 42 could "mean". And Douglas Adams insisted on having chosen the number 42 arbitrarily.
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbinian#Corbinian.27s_Bear
· · · · 021 · · There was one who was famed for the number of things
· · · · 022 · · · · He forgot when he entered the ship:
· · · · 023 · · His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,
· · · · 024 · · · · And the clothes he had bought for the trip.
· · · · 025 · · He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,
· · · · 026 · · · · With his name painted clearly on each:
· · · · 027 · · But, since he omitted to mention the fact,
· · · · 028 · · · · They were all left behind on the beach.
· · · · 029 · · The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because
· · · · 030 · · · · He had seven coats on when he came,
· · · · 031 · · With three pairs of boots--but the worst of it was,
· · · · 032 · · · · He had wholly forgotten his name.
· · · · 033 · · He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry,
· · · · 034 · · · · Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"
· · · · 035 · · To "What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!"
· · · · 036 · · · · But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"
· · · · 037 · · While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,
· · · · 038 · · · · He had different names from these:
· · · · 039 · · His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends,"
· · · · 040 · · · · And his enemies "Toasted-cheese."
· · · · 041 · · "His form is ungainly--his intellect small--"
· · · · 042 · · · · (So the Bellman would often remark)
· · · · 043 · · "But his courage is perfect! And that, after all,
· · · · 044 · · · · Is the thing that one needs with a Snark."
· · · · 045 · · He would joke with hyenas, returning their stare
· · · · 046 · · · · With an impudent wag of the head:
· · · · 047 · · And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,
· · · · 048 · · · · "Just to keep up its spirits," he said.
· · · · 049 · · He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late--
· · · · 050 · · · · And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad--
· · · · 051 · · He could only bake Bridecake--for which, I may state,
· · · · 052 · · · · No materials were to be had.
My assumption is, that in Carroll's ballad the Baker does not stand for a single person. Rather, he represents curageous (and - once the intellect is small but the courage is perfect - often uncautious) searchers of truth. Put more simply: The baker represents an attitude (or a set of attitudes), e.g. the attitudes of a Corbinian or a Thomas Cranmer, a key figure in the history of the reformation in Europe.
2013-02-02: In Carroll's description of the Baker (see parts printed in boldface), there may be some allusions to someone who got burned. As for "Bridecake", Thomas Cranmer also was (along with Thomas Cromwell) quite a bit involved in the weddings (and divorces) of Henry VIII. The forty-two boxes carried the Baker's name as clearly, as the Anglican Forty-Two Articles are associated with Thomas Cranmer. Here both, the Baker and Cranmer, stand for quite ambivalent heroes. Carroll (Rev. Dodgson) did not subscribe to the later Thirty-Nine Articles.
By the way: Lewis Carroll didn't explain what the number 42 could "mean". And Douglas Adams insisted on having chosen the number 42 arbitrarily.
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbinian#Corbinian.27s_Bear
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