The Hunting of the Snark Gardner sees the poem as dealing with existential angst, and states that the Baker may be Carroll's satire of himself, pointing to the fact that the Baker was named after a beloved uncle, as was Carroll, and that the two were around the same age at the time of the writing of the poem. Alternatively, Larry Shaw of the fan magazine "Inside and Science Fiction Advertiser" suggests that the Boots, being the Snark, actually murdered the Baker. Also references to religious issues had been suggested, like the Baker's 42 boxes being a reference to Thomas Cranmer's "Forty-Two Articles" with a
The Right to Love (Liane Carroll album) The Right to Love (Liane Carroll album) The Right to Love is a studio album by English jazz pianist/vocalist Liane Carroll and her fourth collaboration with jazz trumpeter and record producer James McMillan. Released in July 2017 by Quietmoney Recordings and distributed by Proper Records, it received four-starred reviews in "The Observer" and the "Evening Standard". Dave Gelly, reviewing "The Right to Love" in "The Observer", gave the album four stars and said it displayed "a characteristic mixture of deceptive simplicity and emotional depth". John Lewis, in a four-starred review for "The Guardian", described it as "an elegant song suite...