The Hunting of the Snark

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Lewis Carroll. The Hunting of the Snark

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Preface

Fit The First. The Landing

Fit The Second. The Bellman's Speech

Fit The Third. The Baker's Tale

Fit The Fourth. The Hunting

Fit The Fifth. The Beaver's Lesson

Fit The Sixth. The Barrister's Dream

Fit The Seventh. The Banker's Fate

Fit The Eighth. The Vanishing

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Lewis Carroll

The Hunting of the Snark

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This also seems a fitting occasion to notice the other hard works in that poem. Humpty-Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all.

For instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards "fuming," you will say "fuming-furious;" if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards "furious," you will say "furious-fuming;" but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say "frumious."

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