> *The Hunting of the Snark*, P tricky P. Life before the Boojum was
> straightforwardly mundane - the B changed all that, casting an ominous
> light of weord/wyrd upon the human strivings represented by the hunting;
> as Dom says " a novel truth - an enormity - which is then retroactively
> normalised" - "For the Snark *was* a Boojum, you see".
> You see?
Works for me - although Deleuze, rather than Badiou, is probably the
go-to guy for continental musings on Lewis Carroll...
Dominic
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