The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll.
It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem.
Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures,
and eight portmanteau words from
Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in
his children's novel Through the
Looking-Glass (1871).
The plot follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, an animal which
may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum.
The only one of the crew to find the Snark quickly vanishes, leading the
narrator to explain that it was a Boojum after all. The poem is dedicated to young Gertrude Chataway, whom Carroll met at the
English seaside town Sandown in the Isle of Wight in 1875. The Hunting of the Snark has seen
various adaptations into musicals, opera, theatre, plays, and music, including
a piece for trombone by Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim (1975) a jazz
rendition (2009), and (in French translation—La chasse au Snark)
with music by Michel Puig for
five actresses, eight actors and an instrumental ensemble of five players,
premiered at the Festival d'Avignon in
1971. The poem was turned into a £2-million budget West End musical The
Hunting of the Snark by Mike Batt. The poem has inspired literature, such as
Jack London's The Cruise of the
Snark (1911), the science-fiction short story "Chaos,
Coordinated" (1947) by John MacDougal, Elspeth Huxley's With Forks and Hope (1964) and
the title of Kate Wilhelm's
novella "With Thimbles, with Forks and Hope." Additionally, it has also been alluded to in
fiction, such as Perelandra (1943)
by C. S. Lewis; television, such as "The Soul of Genius"
episode of the British TV crime drama Lewis; court rulings, such as in Parhat v. Gates (2008) a phenomenon in
superfluidity; graph theory; geography,
as a Snark Island and Boojum Rock exist in the Andaman and
Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal; Japanese
animation, such as Ghost Hound (2007–08); and in
video games, such as Half-Life (1998) and American McGee's
Alice (2000). In the sci-fi novel Startide Rising (1983), and its
sequels, the spaceship Streaker is described as a
Snarkhunter-class exploration vessel.
See many illustrations at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark
A metonym
is a word or phrase used in place of another with which it's closely
associated. One of the four master tropes,
metonyms have traditionally been associated with metaphors. Like metaphors, metonyms are figures of speech used in everyday conversation as
well as in literature and rhetorical texts. But whereas a metaphor offers an implicit comparison, a metonym
is a part or attribute of a thing that represents the thing itself. Its
etymology is a back-formation from metonymy:
from the Greek, "change of name".
https://www.thoughtco.com/metonym-figure-of-speech-1691387
This recipe for Tom Kha Soup with Shrimp is
from Alexia Brue & Melisse Gelula’s book Well + Good, a simple coconut
milk broth is spiced with cloves, ginger, scallions, chile and a handful of
fresh shiitake mushrooms. Simmer for 10
minutes and then slip in some shrimp for a quick poach. Top it with a handful of fresh basil and a
generous squeeze of lime. Feel free to
substitute chicken or tofu or any finned fish for the shrimp if you
prefer. https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/tom-kha-soup-with-shrimp
It Is the Law is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Arthur Hohl, Herbert Heyes, and Mona Palma. It is a film adaptation of the 1922 Broadway play of the same name by Elmer Rice, itself based on a novel by Hayden Talbot. The film depicts the story of Ruth Allen (Palma), who marries Justin Victor (Heyes) over competing suitor Albert Woodruff (Hohl). Seeking revenge for this slight, Woodruff fakes his death by killing a drifter who resembles him and frames Victor for the murder. Woodruff attempts to renew his courtship of Allen by using an assumed identity, but she sees through his disguise. Once Victor is freed from prison, he kills Woodruff and goes free because a conviction would constitute double jeopardy. This was the final film for director Edwards, who died the following year, and was one of the last produced at Fox Film's New York studio. Contemporary reviews were generally positive. Like many of Fox's early works, it was likely lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Is_the_Law
Rina Lazo Wasem (October 23, 1923–November 1, 2019) was a
Guatemalan-Mexican painter, who began her career in mural painting with Diego Rivera as
his assistant. She worked with him from
1947 until his death in 1957 on projects both in Mexico and Guatemala. Thereafter
she remained an active painter, better known for her mural works than canvases
although the latter have been exhibited in Mexico and other countries making
her one of Guatemala's better known artists.
She was a member of the Mexican
muralism movement and while she
criticized modern artists as too commercial and not committed to social causes.
She believed muralism would revive in
Mexico because of its history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rina_Lazo
My Dinner with Andre is a 1981
American comedy-drama film directed by Louis
Malle, and written by
and starring Andre Gregory (Andre) and Wallace
Shawn (Wally). The actors play fictionalized versions of
themselves sharing a conversation at Café des Artistes in Manhattan. The film's dialogue covers topics such as experimental theatre, the nature of theatre, and the nature of life, and
contrasts Wally's modest humanism with Andre's
spiritual experiences. My Dinner with
Andre was filmed in the Jefferson Hotel, which was then vacant, in Richmond, Virginia. (The hotel
has since been restored and reopened as a luxury venue.) Throughout the film, Andre references
his wife "Chiquita"; in real life he was married to Mercedes
"Chiquita" Nebelthau, who died in 1992. Nebelthau was a documentary filmmaker whose
credits include three films about Jerzy Grotowski, whom Wally and Andre talk
about in this film. Throughout the film,
Wally references his "girlfriend Debbie". Though not actually identified, Debbie is the
acclaimed short story writer Deborah Eisenberg, although she had not
begun publishing stories at the time of the film. Eisenberg is also an extra in the film, a
dark-haired diner Shawn glances at as he scans the restaurant while standing at
the bar waiting for Andre. In 1993, in the series The Simpsons, in
the fifth season episode "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood", Martin Prince plays
an arcade game based
on the film. In 2017, in the Nirvanna the Band the Show first-season episode "The Buffet", the opening scene shows the main character
mimicking Wally's actions from the beginning of the film, walking on the city
streets, waiting for a subway, and putting on a tie before entering a
restaurant. In the television
series, Community pays homage to the film in the episode, Critical Film Studies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dinner_with_Andre
Eminent
author and Washington, DC. historian James Moore Goode passed away December 12,
2019 after a brief illness. Born in
Statesville, North Carolina in 1939, he began his Washington career in 1968 at
the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?fhid=17000&n=james-goode&pid=194851853
Librarian Barbara Testa
died Dec. 16, 2019 at her home in Boulder Creek, California, near Santa
Cruz. She was 91. In 1990, in
her grandfather’s old steamer trunk, she came across a manuscript. It turned out to be half of a draft of
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” one of the great American novels. Scholars
had been trying to find it for decades. The
story began in the 1880s with her grandfather, James Fraser Gluck, a lawyer who
was also curator of the library in Buffalo, New York, now called the Buffalo
and Erie County Public Library. When it
became clear that the manuscript was legitimate and could fetch perhaps as much
as $1.5 million, the Buffalo library filed suit to prevent Ms. Testa from
selling it, arguing that Twain had given it to the library. “Rather than have a court fight, which would
have given money to the lawyers, they settled,” Testa-Reyes said. She said the settlement was about $1 million
and was split between her mother and her mother’s sister, with the manuscript
going to the Buffalo library.
"Absolute
power corrupts absolutely" is the best known quotation of the 19th century
British politician John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902).
He borrowed the idea from several other
writers who had previously expressed the same thought in different words. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely.html
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January 10, 2020
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