Snark/Boojum
Go to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's last fit of The Hunting of the Snark and you will find these immortal and sinister lines:
In the midst of the word he was trying to say,And it was with such a sense of surprise that I looked back upon the dying world of Barsoom and saw that it was Tatooine of the late lamented Empire, but distorted through the Lucasian lens.
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away —
For the Snark *was* a Boojum, you see.
Labels: Burroughs, George Lucas, Mars
etched with acid at 9:44:00 pm
1 Comments:
You quoted from the last lines of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". I think, that Henry Holiday's illustrations may help to interpret these lines - and the whole poem. --- Best regards from Munich, Götz
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