Dear Sofia,
do you remember "The Hunting of the Snark"? Fit the Second? The Bellman's speech, about how to recognize different types of Snarks from quite far away? "The five unmistakable marks by which you may know, wheresoever you go, the warranted genuine Snarks"? "The fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines,/ Which it constantly carries about,/ And believes that they add to the beauty of scenes -/ A sentiment open to doubt." There are many interpretations of this poem (although less than of the works of Kafka or Joyce, or even the bible); it was pointed out that not only the Snark, but also Lewis Carroll loved bathing-machines; another stunning interpretation is that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who thought the Snark to be a personal attack, hardly disguised. Although Rossetti was a great artist, this interpretation seems to me to be somewhat doubtful.

Yours,
John