Really like the line "That the Snark was a Boojum / All can tell."
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If you read the poem, it's pretty obvious what Henry Cow is getting at: We're told that being nice, well-behaved, and conducive to the designs of Western Civ and its bankers and other elites is a Good Thing; which is like hunting the Snark.
But in Carroll's poem, the Snark they pursue turns out to a Boojum. And that means the complete, eternal anhillation of the hunter's being.
In other words, this is Henry Cow's way of saying that we're being sold a bill of goods.
Really like the line "That the Snark was a Boojum / All can tell." ; If you read the poem, it's pretty obvious what Henry Cow is getting at: We're told that being nice, well-behaved, and conducive to the designs of Western Civ and its bankers and other elites is a Good Thing; which is like hunting the Snark.
But in Carroll's poem, the Snark they pursue turns out to a Boojum. And that means the complete, eternal anhillation of the hunter's being.
In other words, this is Henry Cow's way of saying that we're being sold a bill of goods.