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unusual facts about The Hunting of the Snark


Fouquieria columnaris

The plant's English name, Boojum, was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona and is taken from Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark".


Danilo BlanuĊĦa

Snarks were so named later by the American mathematician Martin Gardner in 1976, after the mysterious and elusive object of Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark.

Jacques Roubaud

He is a retired Poetry professor from EHESS and a member of the Oulipo group, he has also published poetry, plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.

Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail

At this point the story must shift to the Agent in the picket ship, who calls himself "Mr. Carroll", a Lewis Carroll reference as one of the planets of the Warden system is named "Momrath" with a moon named "Boojum" from Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark".

Zn'rx

Unpronounceable by human tongues, the Zn'rx are known better as "Snarks" among Earth's superheroes because they were nicknamed that way by a Kymellian called Whitey, who named them after the monster in Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark".


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Peter G. Fletcher

During his 8 year tenure at Leicester, Fletcher also conducted the Leicestershire Chorale and with the orchestra recorded Tippett's The Shires Suite, and made a stunning digital recording of Douglas Young's The Hunting of the Snark, narrated by Peter Easton which was reissued by Cameo Classics, the original label, on CD in 2013 .