Monday, February 27, 2017

Alt-Snark!



A theatrical start to this GN version of The Hunting of the Snark, and one that I hope Lewis Carroll would have appreciated. The unreality of the stage (compounded by, in this instance, the unreality of all things internet) is the best starting point for a Snark hunt. 
Charles Darwin 
The mentally astute reader will note that the Boots is Charles Darwin (definitively responsible for the unreality of god) and that the Bellman is the White Knight from Through the Looking Glass. 

The White Knight
The more astute reader will know that the White Knight was a self-portrait of the cyclopic Sir John Tenniel, illustrator of Through the Looking Glass. 
The most astute reader will remember that the Boot's pose is that of St. Anthony in Grunewald's Temptation of St. Anthony, a compelling depiction of the unreal visions inflicted by the unreal nemesis of an unreal deity upon a real believer. What I tell you three times, eh?
Sir John Tenniel
The Temptation of St. Anthony, Grunewald

4 comments:

  1. At the same altar but opposite to Grünewald's unreal nemesis of an unreal diety you find an unreal kitten: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHuntingOfTheSnark/duplicates/3skysu/matthias_gr%C3%BCnewald_detail_from_visit_of_saint/

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  2. everywhere we look, there is a Cute Cat Video!

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  3. I incidentally run into this {http://snrk.de/face-it} today, a monstrous "face" made from monsters in "The Temptation of St. Anthony". Is that known already?

    Happy new

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  4. every picture tells a story, sometimes, two or three at one time!

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