Word: snarking
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Other obsolete missiles lay around on the ground, waiting for the Air Force to build a museum to house them--a Snark, like the air-breathing monster that ran wild over South America and landed in a jungle in Brazil; a Skybolt; a Minuteman model, slim, looking like three bullets, glued one on top of the other...
...fragmented national society. No more can it afford to make purely demagogic demands of industry, and to an unprece dented degree, labor and management are forced to work together. In this sense, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz is fond of quoting Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark...
...disappointment that he does not write better. The love affair is a fleshy banality, and Price's examination of the interrogator at work falls far short of Koestler's hard clarity. The best of the book shows the British army, all aclank with methodical, motorized idiocy, snark hunting after terrorists in the villages of Cyprus. Price's half-developed central idea leads disturbingly to the suspicion that if civilization does come to a halt, the last moving parts will have been not the generals or the blinkered politicians, but the interrogators-asking probing, arrogant questions long after...
...Lewis Carroll Handbook, by Roger Lancelyn Green, lists no fewer than 561 memorabilia on or by the enigmatic Oxford don. The Alice adventures and The Hunting of the Snark have given the language a host of full-blooded words such as chortle, galumphing and burble. Learned Carrollian treatises include farfetched Freudian analyses, one of which purports to show that Dodgson suffered from a "reversal of unresolved Oedipal attachment." In the untidy, inventive White Knight, who of all Carroll's characters is the only one who shows affection for Alice, scholars see a self-caricature. Some commentators think that...
...which most of the solid Victorian absolutes of Truth, Goodness and Progress have faded like the Cheshire Cat. There is no more devastating comment on Marxist myth than the White Queen's "Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today." In his wildest escapades, whether hunting the Snark ("They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care:/They pursued it with forks and hope;") or playing croquet with flamingos as mallets and hedgehogs as balls, the moral of the mythology is that all pretensions and dogmas turn, like the Red Queen, to pasteboard. As Dodgson wrote...