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“My mother used to ask my father, ‘Haven’t you a good word to say...”
– ~~R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), quoted by Byron Rogers in his obituary of Thomas, The Guardian (September 26, 2000) HT Laudator Temporis Acti
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Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (June 9 - June...
always1895: BBC America has added a new show called Copper to it’s Fall line-up and it’s about the first police force in 1860s NYC…sound familiar? Lyndsay Faye’s brilliant The Gods of Gotham has been out for a while now and I suppose ‘convergent invention’ is possible (like Newton and Leibniz both independently discovering differential calculus) but I wonder if we’re seeing the product of some...
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Midweek Sherlock Links Roundup (June 9 - June 13,...
always1895: LA Review of Books published a refreshingly provocative piece entitled ‘Whither Holmes?’ by Nicholas Meyer, author of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, the infamous Holmes novel which did for Sherlock in the 1970s what BBC Sherlock is doing for Sherlock in the 21st century (ie. for better or for worse, an insane upswing in interest in all things Sherlock Holmes is afoot). Mr Meyer appears...
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“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my...”
– Arthur Rimbaud  (via monocled—misanthrope)
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Listenclownconspiracy: Slim Whitman - Indian Love...
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