The Hunting of the Raspberry Beret

Earliest known edition of The Hunting of the Raspberry Beret.

The Hunting of the Raspberry Beret (An Agony in 8 Fittings) is a nonsense poem by English writer [REDACTED].

The poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from [REDACTED]'s earlier poem "Rubberwookie" in his children's novel "[REDACTED]" (1871).

Narrative

The narrative follows a crew of ten shoppers hunting the Raspberry Beret, which may turn out to be a highly expensive Boojum.

The only crewmember to find the Raspberry Beret quietly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that the crew member was a known shoplifter and was probably arrested, but who knows?

In the News

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  Earliest known screenshot of "The City on the Edge of Raspberries", one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

Fiction cross-reference

• Cite Baudrillard or Die
• Ely Raspberries
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Lacuna Beret
• People who wear glass slippers
• Spencerwocky
• The City on the Edge of Raspberries

External links

• Post @ Twitter (15 July 2021)