Happy New Year’s!
Arachne Jericho on Jan 1st 2009
Somehow this just struck me as extremely Sherlockian (or Holmesian, or whatever). I suppose we need to replace the alcohol with a syringe and much smaller bottle, although it’s not as if Holmes didn’t have a brandy snifter at 221B.
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Hi,
I came across this blog while searching for the key words “Holmes the meddler” on the sound premise that anyone who made a soung and dance about it HAD to be a fellow fan. ;-)
THANK YOU for that incredible analysis of the speckled band – insights like
Turning an information dump into a story is one of the best ways to turn possibly flaccid material into a captivating, living part of the main narrative
Doyle, on the other hand, shows us that we can walk in–as long as we walk in with style and promise.
scenes
happens in real time,
happens in a real place,
has specific characters.
Especially a lack of (1) means that you’re summarizing rather than letting the action play out properly.
etc are truly eye-poppingly revealing. More to say after I finish reading. :)