![]() ![]() On the same island may also be found other creatures such as the Jubjub and Bandersnatch. The domain of the snark is an island filled with chasms and crags, very distant from England. It is also handy for striking a light the Annotated Snark suggests that this could mean either that its skin is useful for striking matches on, or that it breathes fire. While the snark is very ambitious, and has very little sense of humor, it is very fond of bathing-machines, and constantly carries them about wherever it goes. The taste of the snark is meager and hollow, but crisp (apparently like a coat that is too tight in the waist), with a flavor of Will-o-the-wisp. The "boojum" is a either a particular variety of snark or separate species of similar appearance, which causes any who meet it to "softly and suddenly vanish away, and never be met with again." Some have feathers and bite, and some have whiskers and scratch. The poem describes several varieties of snark. In all of them, Carroll's answer is that he does not know himself, that he cannot explain. Martin Gardner lists five examples that are on record. Lewis Carroll was asked repeatedly to explain the Snark. No support for any of this can be found in Lewis Carroll's writings. Martin Gardner has suggested it is a portmanteau word and mentions several combinations of words that may be its origin, including snail and shark, snake and shark, snarl and bark, etc. The words struck him as odd to be in his head and so he wrote a poem about it. ![]() ![]() According to Carroll, the initial inspiration to write the poem – which he called an agony in eight fits – was the final verse For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. ![]()
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