The Hunting of the Snark of the poem as a child. Additionally, it has also been alluded to in fiction, such as "Perelandra" (1943) by C.S. Lewis; television, such as "" episode of the British TV crime drama "Lewis"; court rulings, such as in Parhat v. Gates (2008); a phenomenon in superfluidity; graph theory; geography, as a Snark Island and Boojum Rock exist in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal; Japanese animation, such as "Ghost Hound" (2007–08); and in video games, such as "Half-Life" (1998) and "American McGee's Alice" (2000). Various themes have been suggested by scholars. According to biographer Florence
Lewis Carroll In broad terms, Dodgson has traditionally been regarded as politically, religiously, and personally conservative. Martin Gardner labels Dodgson as a Tory who was "awed by lords and inclined to be snobbish towards inferiors." The Reverend W. Tuckwell, in his "Reminiscences of Oxford" (1900), regarded him as "austere, shy, precise, absorbed in mathematical reverie, watchfully tenacious of his dignity, stiffly conservative in political, theological, social theory, his life mapped out in squares like Alice's landscape." Dodgson was ordained a deacon in the Church of England on 22 December 1861. In "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll", the editor states that