Martin Gardner (1914–2010) recreational mathematician and philosopher
The Annotated Snark (1962), Introduction, p. 15
“Much fruitless speculation has been spent over supposed hidden meanings in Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark. The inclination to search for these was strictly natural, though the search was destined to fail.”
The Snark's Significance, Academy, 29 January 1898.
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