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...HUNTING OF THE SNARK by Lewis Carroll...
London came to take himself very seriously indeed. He thought of himself as a socialist, though he was the highest-paid writer of his day-making over $70,000 a year, owning four houses at one time plus a $30,000 ketch named the Snark.* Worse, as a Darwinian, London got his theories of evolution all mixed up with his notions of Nordic supremacy. The white man, he insisted, could stand the cold better than the Indian could, and in the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight of 1910 he rooted for Jeffries to "wipe the golden smile off the nigger...
...small (a typical model is about 20 ft. long and 20 in. in diameter) and relatively cheap (well under $1 million each). Different versions have been successfully test-fired from submerged submarines, surface ships and B-52 bombers. Most earlier versions of the cruise-such as the Mace, the Snark and Regulus I-were primarily tactical weapons. Technological advances in recent years have given their successors, the Navy's Tomahawk and the Air Force's ALCM, a powerful, strategic wallop. Guided by miniaturized computers and powered by tiny jet engines, these low-flying cruises have ranges of more...
...everyone who read the Alice books and the Snark and found pure pleasure there must shudder to read the Jungian dissection of Carrol's motifs, the parsing of Carroll's imagery, the analysis of his prose style...
...unfair to want to deny Carroll to critics. Clearly, they love him--none of the essays in this volume was solicited. And perhaps the Carroll cultists who observe his work here themselves find their approach just a bit ridiculous. One long essays ends: "The Hunting of the Snark is its own best and self-sufficient allegory." Exactly...