“Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine—in fact one shudders to imagine—a child of today reading and enjoying it.”

—  Martin Gardner

The Annotated Snark (1962), Introduction, p. 15

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