Snark (Lewis Carroll)

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The Barrister's Dream, with a snark in the foreground, in robe and wig

The Snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll. This creature appears in his nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark. His descriptions of the creatures were, in his own words, unimaginable, and he wanted that to remain so.[1]

  1. ^ The Annotated Snark, edited by Martin Gardner, Penguin Books, 1974