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"And shun the Frumious Bandersnatch!"

A sketch of my perception of the Frumious Bandersnatch. I'm not completely happy with it, so I may do some others.

As there's no official illustration and very little description of the Bandersnatch, as opposed the Jabberwock ([link] ), I was free to go wild with the design, as long as I made it look like it could run fast ("You might as well try to catch a bandersnatch!"), and include an extendible neck ("But the Bandersnatch merely extended its neck") and snapping, frumious jaws ("... while those frumious jaws ... Went savagely snapping around-").

It has deer-like legs because the name sounds a bit like "bound", which is what deer do, I think. Moreover, deer can move very swiftly. I added a typewriter, as I felt it should make a very odd noise, and what is odder for an animal than typewriter noises? It also attacks a banker, so there may be some philosophical/psychological/social allusion here; I don't know. It has a shuttlecock tail for no real reason other than I thought it looked good. I checked to see if Badminton had been invented in Carroll's lifetime, and it apparently began the year before he wrote the Hunting of the Snark. But it would have been fine anyway, as long as it was within his lifetime. Although impossible to see, the text on the paper sticking out from the typewriter is the last verse of the Hunting of the Snark.

This was partly drawn for , as she asked what I thought the Bandersnatch should look like, after I commented on hers. I need more practice at drawing typewriters.

Description
"And shun the Frumious Bandersnatch!"

A sketch of my perception of the Frumious Bandersnatch. I'm not completely happy with it, so I may do some others.

As there's no official illustration and very little description of the Bandersnatch, as opposed the Jabberwock ([link] ), I was free to go wild with the design, as long as I made it look like it could run fast ("You might as well try to catch a bandersnatch!"), and include an extendible neck ("But the Bandersnatch merely extended its neck") and snapping, frumious jaws ("... while those frumious jaws ... Went savagely snapping around-").

It has deer-like legs because the name sounds a bit like "bound", which is what deer do, I think. Moreover, deer can move very swiftly. I added a typewriter, as I felt it should make a very odd noise, and what is odder for an animal than typewriter noises? It also attacks a banker, so there may be some philosophical/psychological/social allusion here; I don't know. It has a shuttlecock tail for no real reason other than I thought it looked good. I checked to see if Badminton had been invented in Carroll's lifetime, and it apparently began the year before he wrote the Hunting of the Snark. But it would have been fine anyway, as long as it was within his lifetime. Although impossible to see, the text on the paper sticking out from the typewriter is the last verse of the Hunting of the Snark.

This was partly drawn for , as she asked what I thought the Bandersnatch should look like, after I commented on hers. I need more practice at drawing typewriters.