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Lewis Carroll's The
Hunting Of The Snark
: An Agony in 8
Fits
by Allan P Williams |
UK price:
£6.27 US
price:
$10.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 88
ISBN: 0-595-36243-5
Published: Jul-2005
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Lewis Carroll's long
nonsense poem, “The Hunting
of the Snark”, about 10
bachelors on a journey of
discovery, is here depicted
as a sexual journey of
discovery, darkly
overshadowed by the danger
of AIDS. The amazing
pictures by Allan Williams—
recording every strange
experience and exotic
encounter the poem
contains—are full of
ingenious surprises,
plentifully supported by his
annotations of the text. The
Bellman is tingling his
bell. Dare you come on board
for the journey of a
lifetime?
Book Description
The most ineffective
journey—filled with the most
ineffective instructions and
advice—in all the world of
literature. How can you boil
something in sawdust? How
can you threaten a life with
a railway-share? How can you
rouse someone with mustard
and cress? Why should a
man's friends call him
'candle-ends' and his
enemies 'toasted-cheese'?
But...
What if this nonsense poem
has a deeper meaning?
A prophetic meaning?
About a peril that would
appear a century after its
publication...?
Allan Williams' visual and
verbal commentary—startling
and adult—ingeniously
discovers evidence that this
is primarily about a sexual
journey, and the dangers
such a journey may
encounter...
About the author
Allan
Williams (born in 1960 of
mixed religion parents) has
had many colourful jobs,
including being a male
stripper from 1985 to 1995.
In fact, he admits that his
knowledge of the male
physique revealed in these
pages is drawn almost
entirely from observing his
fellow-colleagues over that
ten-year period. The
additional model is the
Illustrator himself, who
makes an appearance as one
of the poem’s characters,
though he prefers not to
reveal which one. That must
be left to the guesswork of
the reader, who will also
have fun discovering the
many other secrets the
pictures contain.
Also by Allan P.
Williams:
What will happen when the
two most powerful forces in
the world—sex and
religion—collide with the
sex and religion of other
planets and cultures? As
usual, this author has no
hesitation in stripping his
male characters (both human
and alien) to fully explore
the mind-boggling
possibilities.
This book about a series
of murders that
gravitate around a male
Colossus the size of the
Statue of Liberty may be
zany, erotic and
bizarre, but the reader
will not be able to put
it down till the
satisfying end!
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Carroll's The Hunting of the
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