{"id":482,"date":"2010-10-29T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contrariwise.wild-reality.net\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2010-10-29T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:57:06","slug":"lcsna-fall-meeting-and-the-snark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/lcsna-fall-meeting-and-the-snark\/","title":{"rendered":"LCSNA Fall meeting and the Snark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contrariwise.wild-reality.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Butcher-400x506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-483\" title=\"Butcher-400x506\" src=\"http:\/\/contrariwise.wild-reality.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Butcher-400x506-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Butcher-400x506-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Butcher-400x506.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>The amazingly talented Oleg Lipchenko has asked us to remind everyone he will be talking at the Fall meeting of\u00a0 the Lewis Carroll Societ of North\u00a0 America,\u00a0 Nov 6, in NYC.\u00a0 Subject\u00a0 is intriguingly titled &#8220;Butcher in the Ruff: Rendering the Snark (A Work in Progress)&#8221; , &amp; uses this even more\u00a0 intriguing quote as his jumping off point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The assumption which states that \u201cIt\u2019s a Boo-\u2026\u201d  applies to Boots* seems to be plausible, but is based on written word  \u201cBoots\u201d, still vocally \u201coo\u201d means a long \u201cu\u201d and therefore in this case  \u201cBoots\u201d has no priority over \u201cButcher\u201d. It probably was indeed, \u201cIt\u2019s a  Bo-o-o-o-o-o-o-tcher!\u201d I would rather believe in this interpretation,  because in the poem, Butcher was described in great detail, and acted as  one of the front characters, unlike Boots, who was just a \u201cchorus  member\u201d. Actually, we even don\u2019t know who Boots is at all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*Larry Shaw <em>The Baker Murder case<\/em>, cit. by <em>The Annotated Snark <\/em>by Martin Gardner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having seen\u00a0 Oleg&#8217;s extraordinarily beautful illustrations for\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>, which we <a href=\"http:\/\/contrariwise.wild-reality.net\/blog\/?p=138\">featured in this blog<\/a> a while back, \u00a0 we can&#8217;t wait for this latest project to be completed, and urge anyone who will be in the vicinity to go along to this meeting.\u00a0 Details are available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewiscarroll.org\/\">LCSNA website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amazingly talented Oleg Lipchenko has asked us to remind everyone he will be talking at the Fall meeting of\u00a0 the Lewis Carroll Societ of North\u00a0 America,\u00a0 Nov 6, in NYC.\u00a0 Subject\u00a0 is intriguingly titled &#8220;Butcher in the Ruff: Rendering the Snark (A Work in Progress)&#8221; , &amp; uses this even more\u00a0 intriguing quote as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,66,65],"tags":[30,79],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alice-in-wonderland","category-events","category-the-hunting-of-the-snark","tag-oleg-lipchenko","tag-the-hunting-of-the-snark"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17WIo-7M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}