{"id":43620,"date":"2026-02-16T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43620"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:44:18","slug":"bandersnatch-meters-vorpal-blades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/02\/16\/bandersnatch-meters-vorpal-blades\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandersnatch Meters & Vorpal Blades"},"content":{"rendered":"

So-o, back on December 1, when I posted re completing the revision of another WALL #4 section<\/a>, I also mentioned “bandersnatch meters and the accompanying significance of vorpal blades”<\/em> in the revision context.<\/p>\n

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Azula on the WALL face — channeling that revision vibe<\/p><\/div>\n

I also indicated that I might illuminate their mysteries pre-Christmas, but in the end was way too busy revising the next WALL #4 section to have time for that. Now, however,with the manuscript delivered, I have a little more breathing space, so here it is — the post in which the Bandersnatch Meter mystery is revealed. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Now, I know …on Anything, Really<\/em><\/strong><\/a> blog followers are both knowledgeable and well-read, so will be very aware that both bandersnatches and vorpal blades feature in the poem Jabberwocky<\/em><\/strong> by Lewis Carroll, featured in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jabberwocky illustration by John Tenniel, 1871<\/p><\/div>\n

In the poem, the “frumious bandersnatch”<\/em>, along with the jabberwocky with its “eyes of flame”<\/em> must be shunned, but the hero nonetheless takes “his vorpal sword in hand”<\/em> and seeks the “manxome foe”<\/em> — and once found the aforementioned “vorpal blade went snicker-snack”<\/em> and it was all over for the jabberwocky. The frumious bandersnatch, however, remained…<\/p>\n

…and even wandered into my revision process. How so, you may cry — but it’s straightforward enough. \ud83d\ude09 When embarking upon an edit, one not only looks for the sort of things mentioned in my recent post on Hunting Infelicities<\/a> but also for bandersnatches at large in the manuscript: that’s BS, of course,\u00a0 for short. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Jabberwocky is part of “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There”<\/p><\/div>\n

So in order to ensure the manuscript, when published, will be BS free, one first needs a BS meter, to detect the (ahem) bandersnatches<\/em> and a vorpal blade to go snicker-snack and detach ’em in short order, wherever they may be encountered. All of which is why I maintain and aver that a really good Bandersnatch Meter and reliable vorpal blade are essential to the manuscript revision process.<\/p>\n

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BS (bandersnatch!) meter & vorpal blade not shown.:)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So-o, back on December 1, when I posted re completing the revision of another WALL #4 section, I also mentioned “bandersnatch meters and the accompanying significance of vorpal blades” in the revision context. I also indicated that I might illuminate their mysteries pre-Christmas, but in the end was way too busy revising the next WALL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43620"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43630,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43620\/revisions\/43630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}