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Originally Posted by Abelturd
This is so weird: since yesterday the word Bandersnatch has been on my mind, you know, coming and going, sometimes making me say it to myself out loud. But I don't remember reading it or hearing it anywhere.
And so I looked it up on wiki and there it was - a character out of Lewis Carroll's poem.
Fess up, guys, who's been transmitting "bandersnatch" to me all yesterday.  |
As you say, the word was coined by Lewis Carroll in "The Taming of the Snark". It's also used by Larry Niven in his "known space" SF novels.