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"Golka, a Massachusetts physicist, Tesla disciple, and lightning experimenter, has pursued the ephemeral fireball with the fervor of a hunter of snarks."
All you snarky folks better lay low.
Of course, I originally thought the above was a typo. This is likely due to the fact that I haven't read enough Lewis Carroll. Snark was coined by Lewis Carroll in 1876, and refers to an imaginary animal and is used to refer to someone or something that is hard to track down.
Who knew? All this time I've seen it used in the context of people making clever quips about that which annoys them.