09-18-2006, 06:54 PM | #121 |
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hm...hamlet. he was kickass...i'm just trying to make the point that Sherlock and say, Hector (), definately belong in different sections.
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09-18-2006, 07:06 PM | #123 |
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actually, i'm not going to bet anything, but i'm LEANING TOWARDS "improbable"...and yeah, this is hard for me to contradict with you, oh might Spocko, but i'm pretty sure it is "improbable"...
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09-18-2006, 07:36 PM | #124 |
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correction of memory
Unfortunately, I am a Holmes devotee and have the complete works well read.
The quote: ... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) These quotes are Holmes speaking to Watson: "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" The Sign of Four (1890) again: "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (1892) again: "We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." The Adventure of Bruce-Partington Plans (1908) again: "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." The Adventure of The Blanched Soldier (1926) I wins again!! I bends the posting to win
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09-18-2006, 08:25 PM | #125 |
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He wrote that in 4 books?
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See, but I speak not of sections and categories, but of Greatness. For instance: James Bond was invented before Indiana Jones. Indy was made up as a kind of out-doors Bond, and it worked, and you can say, though there is dissent, that Indy is just as good as Bond. I'm taking this to the larger scale, of course...
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Dear Hector,
No. Really. Gwai
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Come now, just because something was made up in Ancient Greece makes it good? I say they're good because they're good, but not because they're greek. You have to admit, there are some clunkers too...Oedipus really isnt that interesting...
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No, Holmes does not rank with the Greek Heroes. The smart ones are also brimming with physical prowess.
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I see we've moved from classic mythology to 'modern' mythology. I like the idea that in a few centuries people will think that Sherlock Holmes was one of the mythological heroes of our time and myths.
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hm...i think not. mythology, in and of itself, is composed of old RELIGIONS. i don't think we have any Sherlockianists running around...i hope..
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Holmes is a story-character too, and I find the thought amusing, that future philologists -who don't know everything about our era and have to make assumptions and theories, like we do today on old civilisations- would think that Holmes may have been a hero in our myths.
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In OUR myths, not yours.
We English-speakers have little enough as it is, and we must guard what we have jealously! I imagine you're right, that most people probably didn't think it happened exactly thus, but I doubt they thought it to be entirely or primarily fictional, as we think Holmes to be.
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Wait a minute. You saying Holmes isn't true? Dr. Watson is going to be very disappointed when I tell him.
Next you'll be saying the Hobbits that inhabit certain regions, aren't real either.
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