Episode 241: Baker Street Inquiries

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“How did you word your inquiries?” [STUD]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Osp2R7RdS0FDa7QFqALd1p9N6nK05odPN3mL-b4nkDpM18BxiyVwdG-fSlsIRVkktjyVssm0RLKvtyigSj_BzDM5irbOyNoOb1oy5B4Q7AK55LGnePw7kI4z7Uji0LGOeSqOikKGPhycGb2cHibkNbV7-ZzSloU0AY7w04aDku5tznrPc9UaITbjIQ/s1600/Baker%20Street%20Inquiry%20header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Osp2R7RdS0FDa7QFqALd1p9N6nK05odPN3mL-b4nkDpM18BxiyVwdG-fSlsIRVkktjyVssm0RLKvtyigSj_BzDM5irbOyNoOb1oy5B4Q7AK55LGnePw7kI4z7Uji0LGOeSqOikKGPhycGb2cHibkNbV7-ZzSloU0AY7w04aDku5tznrPc9UaITbjIQ/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Inquiry%20header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>Sherlock Holmes has lived a rich life beyond the 60 stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A much fuller life, in fact.</p><p>When Michelle Birkby chose to write about the world of Sherlock Holmes, she took a different approach: what if, she wondered, we were to experience Victorian London through the eyes of two very capable women — two women deeply connected with Holmes and Watson.</p><p>And that is how the Baker Street Inquiry series began: through the eyes of Mrs. Hudson and Mrs. Watson. Enter a cavalcade of favorite (and in many cases, lesser-known) characters in <i>All Roads Lead to Whitechapel</i>, followed by <i>No One Notices the Boys </i>(Felony & Mayhem Press). Together, we have a new and different look at Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Victorian women.</p><p>Where will it head next in the series? Well, </p><p>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> gives you a chance to test your creativity and knowledge with ours. If you properly guess the story we're referring to, you'll have a chance to win one of Michelle's books.</p><p>Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by June 14, 2022 at 11:59 a.m. EST. The winner will be chosen at random from among all the correct answers. All listeners are eligible to play.</p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=2318606">Become a Patron!</a></div><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><p></p><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Please do consider becoming a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">Patron of the Arts</a>. 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Episode 241: Baker Street Inquiries

“How did you word your inquiries?” [STUD]   Sherlock Holmes has lived a rich life beyond the 60 stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A...

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Baker Street Elementary – They Say It's Your Birthday

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“a man of good birth and excellent education” [FINA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9o7bFa12AF9mAt22A34LICpenV7x8Xyop3bwejMmWiz1Jys1nRIYA8vSsFAXl4BoauDVzlXeTO9cNhzjtlFtjixfltjEBiG7Jq95kCCCcqjy4UiNVyvfb2td8qSGyxOrbrIchBYJApHDQbFnMj_0Ex07hvfaKIiI8zz2EsWZErr1w80xO9QFR04aukQ/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20132.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9o7bFa12AF9mAt22A34LICpenV7x8Xyop3bwejMmWiz1Jys1nRIYA8vSsFAXl4BoauDVzlXeTO9cNhzjtlFtjixfltjEBiG7Jq95kCCCcqjy4UiNVyvfb2td8qSGyxOrbrIchBYJApHDQbFnMj_0Ex07hvfaKIiI8zz2EsWZErr1w80xO9QFR04aukQ/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20132.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Today marks what would have been the 163rd birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.</div><div><br /></div><div>And it's a wonderful time to enjoy the creations of Conan Doyle — not just Sherlock Holmes, but beyond. A number of energetic and enterprising individuals have developed outlets for Conan Doyle enthusiasts to express and share their interests.</div><div><br /></div><div>A smattering of current offerings includes:</div><div><br /></div><div>The <a href="http://acdfriends.org/" target="_blank">Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection</a> at the Toronto Public Library, preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary <a href="http://acdsociety.com/" target="_blank">at a big event in September.</a></div><div><a href="http://acdsociety.com/" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><div>Then there's the newly-formed <a href="http://acdsociety.com/" target="_blank">ACD Society</a>, with its newsletter, awards and projects, including "The Terror of Blue John Gap" annotated edition, among other things. The site, created and updated by Ross Davies, is a great jumping-off point for all things about Conan Doyle and contains a definitive list of ACD-centric links and sites.</div><div><br /></div><div>One of the great rabbit holes to explore is the <a href="https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Main_Page" target="_blank">Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia</a>, with over 7,000 pages of wonderful history, descriptions, illustrations, and even full texts of some short stories.</div><div><br /></div><div>There's even a podcast dedicated to Conan Doyle: <i><a href="https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/" target="_blank">Doings of Doyle</a></i>, hosted by Mark Jones and Paul M. Chapman.</div><div><br /></div><div>Speaking of podcasts, we've assembled a number of IHOSE episodes in which we've had <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/sets/arthur-conan-doyle-1?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing" target="_blank">Conan Doyle-centric conversations</a>:</div><div><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1442068894&color=%2302ae05&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/sets/arthur-conan-doyle-1" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Arthur Conan Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, it's time to celebrate at Baker Street Elementary.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzuvmzHQH3E21tacp0F079Yj9EQt37qQuIpE-2PXODfMCipg1xOXk-FQ_3y5MLLUk01VDstdmE1cdOHwkGk9IcVQBs8MDZcz6kWv5SYQXmwEhO7v4J-r6evhr2boOeQyReis1U-Vtz5e5uIPHnNqxpCVr1eUBcqzlkJf6WgjDCpiVfGHMQvcuaTRseg/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20132.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzuvmzHQH3E21tacp0F079Yj9EQt37qQuIpE-2PXODfMCipg1xOXk-FQ_3y5MLLUk01VDstdmE1cdOHwkGk9IcVQBs8MDZcz6kWv5SYQXmwEhO7v4J-r6evhr2boOeQyReis1U-Vtz5e5uIPHnNqxpCVr1eUBcqzlkJf6WgjDCpiVfGHMQvcuaTRseg/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20132.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – They Say It's Your Birthday

“a man of good birth and excellent education” [FINA]  Today marks what would have been the 163rd birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. And it...

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by Scott Monty

Month After Month His Papers Accumulated: A Don Redmond Centenary

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"The index books, and others perhaps less excusable" [CREE] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimZH4doDP8mq5nUaKy5xShwcaVAqYK-_ezCOYeng3MSQPsWY0O1BGYfMweoewRz1YqmBsg5uaaDtw7aHtRPF8ehHzvp4Hz2YxZ3c4si6PucOVUUZIh94AeExqWewio7HnGyJteSX_WicgU0gw9q1WvAwrEtXK6tynnrf0VMLPQZWiBHU2XEFrMAxJCzg/s1678/Redmond%20-%20composite.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="1678" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimZH4doDP8mq5nUaKy5xShwcaVAqYK-_ezCOYeng3MSQPsWY0O1BGYfMweoewRz1YqmBsg5uaaDtw7aHtRPF8ehHzvp4Hz2YxZ3c4si6PucOVUUZIh94AeExqWewio7HnGyJteSX_WicgU0gw9q1WvAwrEtXK6tynnrf0VMLPQZWiBHU2XEFrMAxJCzg/w640-h426/Redmond%20-%20composite.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Today, May 19, would have been the 100th birthday of my father, Donald A. Redmond, one of the more prolific Sherlockians of his generation. He is best known in many quarters for his two scholarly books — <i><a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/2670720/77416/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fkn%3DSherlock%2520Holmes%252C%2520a%2520Study%2520in%2520Sources%26sts%3Dt%26cm_sp%3DSearchF-_-topnav-_-Results%26ds%3D20" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes, a Study in Sources</a></i> and <i><a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/2670720/77416/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fkn%3DSherlock%2520Holmes%2520Among%2520the%2520Pirates%26sts%3Dt%26cm_sp%3DSearchF-_-topnav-_-Results" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates</a></i> — but he wrote much more as well, including articles in Canadian, British and American journals and newsletters over four decades.<div>  <br />I have been working lately to compile a bibliography of his writings, and then assemble an anthology to make some of the gems available to today's Sherlockians. I know I haven't found everything he wrote (and I never will), but there are at least 250 discrete items, from technical research to Sherlockian "grand game" speculation and some fragments of flippant verse: <br /><br /></div><div><blockquote>I suspect of Sherlockians very few<br /> Excepting John Clay (perhaps Merridew)<br />   Can tell at a glance<br />   At the knees of their pants<br /> A tired old limerick from a clerihew. </blockquote><br /><br /></div><div>That one was typewritten on a recycled catalogue card, and never published — just as his essay "The Case of the Builders Bodies", identifying some sources for the plot of "The Norwood Builder", apparently never saw print. Some day maybe it will, along with a sheaf of others. <br /><br /></div><div>Shortly after my father's death in 2014, I wrote <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/11/remembering-donald-redmond-bsi-2s.html#.YnfWFS0ZOxA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a summary of his life and Sherlockian career</a> for I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere<br /><br />A chemistry graduate of Mount Allison University, he went on to study library science at McGill University and the University of Illinois, and worked in library administration in Nova Scotia, Ceylon, Turkey and Kansas (where we both caught the Sherlockian bug) before becoming chief librarian of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1966-77. Railways, Meccano, and church administration and history were among his enthusiasms in addition to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle.</div><div>  <br />He was admitted to the Baker Street Irregulars in 1969, with the title "Good Old Index" in recognition of his work as an indexer. A Two-Shilling Award from the BSI followed. </div><div><br /></div><div>His first major Sherlockian index, covering <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> from 1946 to 1969, appeared in 1970, and he continued to index the <i>BSJ</i>, with cumulations, until 2012. Other indexes followed, knocked out on a series of manual and then electric typewriters — he never had the slightest desire to touch a computer. </div><div><br /></div><div>And then there was <a href="https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/specialized-collections/literature-genre-doyle.jsp" target="_blank">the Bigelow Index at the Toronto Reference Library</a>, an attempt to index the universe of Sherlockian literature, launched in the 1960s by S. Tupper Bigelow and carried on by my father as a volunteer.</div><div>  <br />The volume of words he knocked out on those typewriters was immense: those indexes and books, cards for the Bigelow Index, articles, verses, quizzes, and even one or two parodies, not to mention correspondence. </div><div><br /></div><div>To take just one example, in the late 1990s he was conducting what amounted to a monthly column for the <i>Baker Street Dispatch</i>, a newsletter out of Ohio. One of those columns took its title from a phrase in "The Musgrave Ritual": "Month After Month His Papers Accumulated." In it, my father described a little of his methods of indexing:</div><div>  <br /></div><blockquote><div>"The Sherlockian periodicals flow steadily into the mailbox, and when the in-tray is full, seldom before, I set to with index cards, thesaurus of Sherlockian subjects, and typewriter, to bring some semblance of order out of the Sherlockian Chaos. When the tray has been reduced so that the inward flow will not submerge my desk, I transfer the cards to the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library (some 160 miles away) and the Sherlockiana itself (themselves?) to the file tray. There it further mellows until it too threatens to overflow, and I reluctantly set about to dispose of it somehow.</div><div>  <br />"Nominally the disposal is to a filing cabinet, alphabetized almost as arcanely as Jabez Wilson's volume of the <i>Britannica</i>, from Abbots to Architecture and on to the Van Herder Airguns (compare with the V entries in Holmes's own index) and the <i>Whitechapel Gazette</i> and the Wigmore Street Post Office. <br /><br />"But the filing cabinet is full. It is always full. It always has been full."</div></blockquote><div></div><div>  <br />So are the bookshelves, he added, especially when he had handfuls of newsletters converted into bound volumes. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>"I am not a successor to John Bennett Shaw; I know that what gathers is not a complete collection of Sherlockiana, and I have no interest in its being such. I could not afford to make it complete; the prices attached by dealers to items lacking in this collection could readily be attached to choice items for sale out of Windsor Castle.</div><div><br /></div><div>"But I think there is an eventual value to this collecting. How few are now and will in future be the collections which reflect, not the outstanding gems of the annals of Sherlock Holmes, but the ceaseless activity, energy and enthusiasm of the almost countless Sherlockian devotees, and societies of devotees, who are actively keeping green the Master's memory. <br /><br /></div><div>"There is too a real danger that the wheel will be endlessly re-invented, unless the endless bits of scholarship, the grains of knowledge carried by countless Sherlockian ants, are in some way collected and stored. There will always be a need for collections of papers, and for indexes to them."</div></blockquote><div></div><div>  <br />I have the filing cabinet now, though the Toronto library has its contents and will someday have all these manuscripts I have been wrangling. The bound volumes, most with "Redmond" at the base of the spine, are on my shelves and elsewhere around the Sherlockian world. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd4AzcqolzUVNiho089qnxtTMVsMjf49YD5TGawAsfTFGosr35Aty-SiLrk1BNlhhJRycQXPRo8A97nZV5zYKfd1GxGsZuaRpGoE_5jajdQe_0ctRkPPaf3vwt87JeBHHzlZ5BDnK31obxIWb6_abOp0qgAzY1_PSzjjyJSn0E6BizSLsNEZe9LU86cw/s1598/redmond-2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd4AzcqolzUVNiho089qnxtTMVsMjf49YD5TGawAsfTFGosr35Aty-SiLrk1BNlhhJRycQXPRo8A97nZV5zYKfd1GxGsZuaRpGoE_5jajdQe_0ctRkPPaf3vwt87JeBHHzlZ5BDnK31obxIWb6_abOp0qgAzY1_PSzjjyJSn0E6BizSLsNEZe9LU86cw/w400-h640/redmond-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Don Redmond, October 1982</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And on this centenary of his birth, I know that many Sherlockians join me in remembering Don Redmond.</div><div><br /></div><div>--</div><div><br /></div><br />

Month After Month His Papers Accumulated: A Don Redmond Centenary

"The index books, and others perhaps less excusable" [CREE]  Today, May 19, would have been the 100th birthday of my father, Donal...

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by Chris Redmond

Episode 240: Anticipations in A Sherlock Holmes Commentary

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“a turn which neither of us could have anticipated” [REIG]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI_sv-IeqWFlax66Oifx9w-q7Lrex9as_4eI8FJ3EqB_p0b3apPhSZgTWD3vhiG5myuYK26ReUQYg3lnOJaT9lQhD9fpGAf0FhpBxdVnf_wb3WljUMCCa64uiXchnWV5D987eLEFa1uWsty4y1xOeaR3RaGek2ChgmUzlQANESW45vCJDaORJuHSpjCw/s3633/Anticipations%20-%20widescreen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2044" data-original-width="3633" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI_sv-IeqWFlax66Oifx9w-q7Lrex9as_4eI8FJ3EqB_p0b3apPhSZgTWD3vhiG5myuYK26ReUQYg3lnOJaT9lQhD9fpGAf0FhpBxdVnf_wb3WljUMCCa64uiXchnWV5D987eLEFa1uWsty4y1xOeaR3RaGek2ChgmUzlQANESW45vCJDaORJuHSpjCw/w640-h360/Anticipations%20-%20widescreen.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>D. Martin Dakin’s <i>A Sherlock Holmes Commentary</i> is one of the more important contributions to Sherlockian scholarship. In it, he discussed the entirety of the Sherlock Holmes canon, plus two apocryphal tales.</p><p>But Dakin also acknowledged that he was probably missing the discovery of scholarship that had happened prior to his time. Bruce Harris, in his <i>Anticipations in D. Martin Dakin’s A Sherlock Holmes Commentary</i>, digs deeper into the older scholarship and has found earlier commentary on the points that interested Dakin.</p><p>This is a fine companion volume to a cornerstone of Sherlockian scholarship. And Bruce's journey there is a fascinating one.</p><p>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> follows the interview: we give you two lines of poetry, and you need to identify which Sherlock Holmes story they represent. The winner will receive a copy of Bruce's book.</p><p>Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by May 29, 2022 at 11:59 a.m. EST. 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Episode 240: Anticipations in A Sherlock Holmes Commentary

“a turn which neither of us could have anticipated” [REIG]   D. Martin Dakin’s A Sherlock Holmes Commentary  is one of the more important co...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – La-Z-Boy

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“lazy devil” [STUD] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_IKc5pwFYhDtzlzhpwgfFcI07u_57cKBjpbe5UnUingdNLQkhuTqXxl1bkXuSreD6CrZInmyrX_Eo7txs8bxHie1WcMB5PWEXQcCtPZuil05TSpJ8JsAWle2G98zRw40SN_UPFo_ZfmlCOvA-fJpgY5_iOAC7myBG7PoHhmKBQaN5TVHSvV5Lmn64QA/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20131.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_IKc5pwFYhDtzlzhpwgfFcI07u_57cKBjpbe5UnUingdNLQkhuTqXxl1bkXuSreD6CrZInmyrX_Eo7txs8bxHie1WcMB5PWEXQcCtPZuil05TSpJ8JsAWle2G98zRw40SN_UPFo_ZfmlCOvA-fJpgY5_iOAC7myBG7PoHhmKBQaN5TVHSvV5Lmn64QA/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20131.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Quick, think of a word to describe Sherlock Holmes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some words that likely came to your mind are: detective, intelligent, clever, energetic, smoker, consultant, high-strung, lazy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wait — <i>lazy</i>?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yes, lazy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Holmes himself admits to Watson in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i> that he can be incurably lazy:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I’m not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather—that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times.”</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And there we have the wonderful dichotomy of Holmes's character that makes him both endearing and infuriating — a contradiction of personality. The bringer of justice (while breaking laws), the defender of British government (but a proponent of the little guy), and a natural athlete (who seldom took exercise for its own sake).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So is it any surprise that Sherlock Holmes would call himself lazy?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course, he's not only lazy; he's lazy at times. Even Watson understood that, as this dialog from <i>The Sign of Four</i> indicates:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Yes, the reaction is already upon me. I shall be as limp as a rag for a week.” </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Strange,” said I, “how terms of what in another man I should call laziness alternate with your fits of splendid energy and vigor.”  </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Yes,” he answered, “there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe,—</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Schade, daß die Natur nur </i><i>einen Mensch aus Dir schuf, </i><i>Denn zum w¨urdigen Mann war </i><i>und zum Schelmen der Stoff.</i></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">[“<i>Alas, that Nature made only one man of you, when there was material enough for a good man and a rogue.</i>”]</div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Perhaps Watson hoped that the shock value of Holmes describing himself as lazy took the focus off of he, the narrator.</div><div><br /></div><div>Recall that during that first meeting, it was Watson who first described himself as lazy: </div><div><blockquote><div>“I keep a bull pup,” I said, “and I object to rows because my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and <b><i>I am extremely lazy</i></b>. I have another set of vices when I’m well, but those are the principal ones at present.” [<i>Emphasis ours - Ed.</i>]</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>Of course, this could have been a self-effacing or overly self-critical assessment from a former Army doctor, still recovering from his wounds. An extremely lazy individual wouldn't take up private practice, nor would he put pen to paper to immortalize the greatest detective who ever lived.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, we detect more than a bit of laziness at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_EsFSnGlek1TWCSNsMHfANVFxiC_I1UToTc1b2A5jK7bBQJhhqKLi-mtPLJLp4geH_W4QIvUySvgBYTBUO7XPT2zyi9o_Zp0qeBnU7lr5AZfTmjw_68uv7M6w5t38zC7dTmuaX5wX_8fkDTDyhkCCdqi_ilXGx9-ur0rAmtsAts7CtVNfRxgVhLiXg/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20131.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_EsFSnGlek1TWCSNsMHfANVFxiC_I1UToTc1b2A5jK7bBQJhhqKLi-mtPLJLp4geH_W4QIvUySvgBYTBUO7XPT2zyi9o_Zp0qeBnU7lr5AZfTmjw_68uv7M6w5t38zC7dTmuaX5wX_8fkDTDyhkCCdqi_ilXGx9-ur0rAmtsAts7CtVNfRxgVhLiXg/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20131.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

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