The Hunting of The Snark - Other Influences

Other Influences

Judge Merrick Garland of United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit referred to the Bellman's Rule in his ruling in Parhat v. Gates, saying, "The government suggests that several of the assertions in the intelligence documents are reliable because they are made in at least three different documents ... We are not persuaded. Lewis Carroll notwithstanding, the fact the government has 'said it thrice' does not make the allegation true. In fact we have no basis for concluding that there are independent sources for the documents' thrice-made assertions".

Justice Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States, in Medellin v. Texas, 128 S. Ct. 1346, 1381–82 wrote in dissent: "t would be unrealistic to expect state parties to multilateral instruments like the VCCR to agree on explicit language specifying a treaty's domestic effect ... the absence or presence of language in a treaty about a provision's self-execution proves nothing at all. At best the Court is hunting the snark. At worst ..."

N. David Mermin named a phenomenon in superfluidity after the Boojum.

The game Half-Life features a small, insect-like alien called the Snark as a weapon.

The Boojum tree, a bizarre kind of tree native to Baja California, was named after the Boojum in the poem.

There is a Snark as well as a JubJub Island and a Boojum Rock in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean.

In 1975, Arne Nordheim, a composer from Norway, composed The Hunting of The Snark for trombone. The Return of The Snark for trombone and tape recorder was composed in 1987. In 2009, the jazz collective NYNDK produced The Hunting of the Snark which includes a variation on Nordheim's composition. And, in 2010, Bajka's In Wonderland was produced with eleven songs, among them one song for every "Fit" in Carroll's poem.

The British prog-rock band Henry Cow's Tim Hodgkinson wrote a song "Nine Funerals of the Citizen King", featured on their first album, Legend. This song is the only cut on the album with discernible lyrics, and contains the line "That the Snark was a Boojum all can tell". Within the context of the whole lyric, and given the band's confrontational Marxist leanings at the time, this line would appear to be using the Snark/Boojum bait-and-switch as a metaphor for capitalism's failure; promising the fulfillment of human potential, but producing annihilation.

The Northrop SM-62 Snark was a United States cruise missile named after the Snark.

In the mathematical field of graph theory, a snark is a connected, bridgeless cubic graph with chromatic index equal to 4. There are various theorems and conjectures about this type of object.

"The Soul of Genius" episode of the Oxford-set British TV crime drama Lewis involves the murder of a professor who was fixated on solving the seemingly impossible riddle set by Carroll.