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Название книги: The hunting of the Snark
Автор(ы): Lewis Carroll
Жанр: Детская проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-hunting-of-the-Snark-147244.html
PREFACE
If — and the thing is wildly possible — the charge of writingnonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief butinstructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (inp.4)"Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes."In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appealindignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such adeed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of thispoem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated init, or to its noble teachings in Natural History — I will take the moreprosaic course of simply explaining how it happened.The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances,used to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to berevarnished, and it more than once happened, when the time came forreplacing it, that no one on board could remember which end of the ship itbelonged to. They knew it was not of the slightest use to appeal t
Название книги: The hunting of the Snark
Автор(ы): Lewis Carroll
Жанр: Детская проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-hunting-of-the-Snark-147244.html
PREFACE
If — and the thing is wildly possible — the charge of writingnonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief butinstructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (inp.4)"Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes."In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appealindignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such adeed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of thispoem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated init, or to its noble teachings in Natural History — I will take the moreprosaic course of simply explaining how it happened.The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances,used to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to berevarnished, and it more than once happened, when the time came forreplacing it, that no one on board could remember which end of the ship itbelonged to. They knew it was not of the slightest use to appeal t
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