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Writers use the word "Snark" to evoke both the tangible and the fantastical, often representing a mysterious vessel laden with quirky character and whimsical misadventure. In many texts, the Snark is not merely a ship but a locus of unconventional wisdom and capricious behavior, deftly steering its fate without the usual guides ([1], [2], [3]). At times, it becomes a vessel for adventure and a repository for oddball narratives that span from dry nautical detail to profound absurdity ([4], [5], [6]). Meanwhile, in the tradition of playful nonsense literature—most famously alluded to in a work that bears its name—the term "Snark" challenges the reader to embrace uncertainty and the surreal, inviting a reinterpretation of order and chaos ([7], [8], [9]).
  1. The Snark really needs no steering to-night, but someone must be at the wheel.
    — from Through the South Seas with Jack London by Martin Johnson
  2. Under double-reefed mainsail and single-reefed staysail the Snark refused to heave to.
    — from The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
  3. “Just the place for a Snark,” the Bellman cried, and, as he stated this fact three distinct times, it was undoubtedly true.
    — from Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home: The Story of His Life by Belle Moses
  4. The Snark was a trim little yacht, forty-five feet on the water-line, fifty-five over all, with a width of fourteen feet eight inches.
    — from Through the South Seas with Jack London by Martin Johnson
  5. Our bungalow was just a block up the beach from the Snark , on a quiet, shady street where the élite of the city lived.
    — from Through the South Seas with Jack London by Martin Johnson
  6. So the Snark started on her long voyage without a navigator.
    — from The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
  7. " Have you also got "The Hunting of the Snark"?
    — from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
  8. —— The Hunting of the Snark, An agony in Eight Fits.
    — from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 3 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens
  9. Mr. Lewis Carroll’s “Hunting of the Snark”
    — from Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities

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