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Episode 106: The Ebb and Flow of Sherlock Holmes

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After nearly 130 years in print, it seems like the phenomenon of Sherlock Holmes may have peaked. And yet, it's likely that every generation may have thought that — including the one in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was still writing the original stories.<br />
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We've often said that every generation has its Sherlock Holmes, and when we move beyond the printed page, it's quite true. From <b>William Gillette</b> to <b>Eille Norwood</b>, <b>Arthur Wontner</b> to <b>Basil Rathbone</b>, <b>Ronald Howard</b> to <b>Douglas Wilmer</b> and <b>Peter Cushing</b>, not to mention <b>Robert Stephenson</b>, <b>Nicol</b> <b>Williamson</b>, <b>Jeremy Brett</b>, <b>Robert Downey, Jr.</b>, <b>Jonny Lee Miller</b> and <b>Benedict Cumberbatch</b>. These are just a handful of names from two forms of media.<br />
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Sherlock Holmes fades but manages to come back, with no sign of abatement. Each time, the fandom receives a shot in the arm and there's a high-water mark left when the tide recedes. Then, it happens again, perhaps increasing slightly. But the interest in the character remains.<br />
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In this episode, we look at the cultural phenomena behind Sherlock Holmes and the impact that the character and his portrayers have had on us. We can't forget the news, the Editor's Gas-Lamp (from Autumn 2000, Vol. 50, No. 3 of the <i>Baker Street Journal</i>), and more.<br />
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Episode 106: The Ebb and Flow of Sherlock Holmes

"now bright, now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned" [TWIS] After nearly 130 years in print, it seems like the phe...

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by Scott Monty

Canonical Toasts

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<b>“Let us drink the
quarrelling <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">toast</span> of the Lodge.” [VALL]</b></h4>
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Lost in the mists of pre-history is the origin of
salutations via drink. Imbibing from a communal vessel to honor or celebrate an
event, occasion or deity to bind a group both figuratively through action and
literally through a shared liquid seems to be a common, world-wide human
ritual. In the 13th century B.C., Ulysses drank to
the health of Achilles in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Iliad</i>.
The Romans were famous for their toasts and usually put in a piece of burnt
bread into their wine to improve its taste. This custom became common in
Europe.<br />
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According the website <a href="http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/05/the-origin-of-toasting-drinks/">Today I Found Out:</a></div>
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The term <i>“toast”</i> itself
originated in the 16th century. One of the first written accounts of it was in
Shakespeare’s <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i> when the character of Falstaff
demands – <i>“Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in’t.”</i> To
translate, he’s asking for a great deal of wine with a piece of (literal) toast
in it.  …. This is thought to be due to the quality of wine in the past--
it was in many cases inferior to our modern vintages.  Thus, placing a
piece of toast within a jug was supposed to soak up some of the acidity and
improve the flavour.  This also had the side benefit of giving people
something to do with a piece of stale bread, often spiced or with fruit
embedded, that would improve the bread’s palatability.  Up until very
recently in history, wasting food just wasn’t something people tended to do, so
finding ways to make stale bread taste good was fairly common- waste not, want
not. (This was also more or less how French Toast got its start.)</div>
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Over the coming centuries, the term
<i>“toasting”,</i> in English, slowly transformed to incorporate traditional
libations and the honouring of people. In the early days of this connection,
the person being honoured often received the physical toast saturated with wine
at the end.</div>
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Toasting became so popular in the
17th and 18th centuries that Toastmasters came into being. Acting as a kind of
party referee, they were there to ensure that the toasting didn’t become too
excessive and that everyone got their fair share of toasting opportunities.
This may sound silly, but it was a desperately needed role. If left to their
own devices, guests would occasionally go on toasting every individual in the
room. (This being a great excuse to drink excessive amounts of alcohol without
seeming like a lush.)</div>
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The origins of the Sherlockian Toast is likewise lost in the
mists of alcohol and tobacco in the gathering places of New York City and
London in the 1930s. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have taken on
many forms, from a simple “Cheers” or “L’chiam” to our favorite Baker Street
denizens (and usually such toast are given within The Game) in poems,
especially limericks, and song, as well as prose of various length to various
characters (or occasionally objects), obscure or infamous, in the Canon. </div>
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On <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose99" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Episode 99</a>: Chris Redmond, BSI ("Billy") talks about his toast at the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes.</div>
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<b>IHOSE:</b> So what I wanted to mention
that what stuck out to me in the book [<a href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/quicksuccession.html"><i>A Quick Succession of Subjects</i></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">] was when you were down here in New York
for a BSI Weekend you actually attended the annual dinner of the Adventuresses
of Sherlock Holmes which until that time had not admitted men to their
proceedings and this was something of a first. I think you were brought by a
date and you made a toast which was speech-like in length but it was very good.
It was called “The Man Who Loved Women”. You remember that occasion?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><b>REDMOND:</b> I do remember that. I came to New York for several of the
January weekends in, I suppose, the early 1980s because of relationships and
circumstances and the first time I came was the first time the Adventuresses
invited men to attend their dinner, which was held on the same evening as the
BSI dinner. There were no women Irregulars at that time so nobody had to make a
choice. They invited me to come to that dinner. I was somehow able to get
myself on the list of people making toasts and, having stood up to make a toast,
took great advantage to being there and spoke for at least ten minutes about
men and women in the Sherlockian world and about Dr Watson as the model of the
man who loved women.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><b>IHOSE:</b> Yes, indeed he was. Do you remember the reception to your talk,
to your toast?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><b>REDMOND:</b> I don’t. I imagine it was mostly relief when I finished.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The lesson here for
would-be toasters is, unless you’re a raconteur of the ability of Chris
Redmond, don’t get too carried away in your speech.</span><br />
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Baker Street Irregular historian Jon Lellenberg, in answer
to my inquiry as to whether there is any history available on the Canonical
Toast replied, “It would be an entertaining subject, but no one's tackled it
that I'm aware of -- maybe because most toasts are too  transient and even
ephemeral compared to dinner papers and the like.” During his talk on “A
Photographic History of the BSI” at the Mind and Art of Sherlock Holmes
Conference at the Chautauqua (NY) Institute on September 11, 2016 [see also <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose104" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 104: Sherlockians at Chautauqua</a>], Ben Vizoskie, BSI ("Alexander Hamilton Garrideb") amplified:</div>
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Toasts have been a part of the
annual meeting [of the Baker Street Irregulars] from the beginning. No minutes survive from the first two annual
dinners in 1934 and 1936, but the minutes of the third dinner in 1940 state
simply “…the toasts were drunk: first to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i>
Woman, then to Mrs. Hudson, then to Dr. Watson’s Second Wife.” The individuals
the BSI have honored with toasts have varied over the years, but there have
always been toasts.</div>
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Whether the contents of the toast were recorded was another
matter. When I asked Ben later about it, he didn’t know. If they were, they are
not readily available or searchable.<br />
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Ross Davies has sought to remedy that. He has a site called <i><a href="http://www.rossdavies.org/toasts">Sherlockian Toasts: Salutes to Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mrs. Hudson, and others of their ilk</a>,</i> and we asked him about it.</div>
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<b>IHOSE:</b> Why did you start the
website?</div>
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<b>DAVIES:</b> Because I discovered a need
— mine! — for such a resource. A few months ago I was invited by Bob Katz,
Headmastiff of The Sons of the Copper Beeches (an ancient and renowned scion in
Philadelphia), to give my first Sherlockian toast. Bob assigned me the toast to
Dr. J.H. Watson. I was nervous. I wanted to do a good job. I’d seen enough
clever Sherlockian toasts (and heard about others) to feel some pressure to
live up to a long and entertaining tradition. I started my preparations by
looking online for examples and inspiration. Much to my surprise, I did not
find much. All those thousands of Sherlockian toasts, all those hundreds of
Sherlockian websites, and yet only a few toasts to be had online! I managed to
come up with a few words on my own, and to recite them to The Sons in
Philadelphia. I also resolved to make it easier for others who might find
themselves in the same boat in the future. So, I set up the Sherlockian Toasts
website. I hope it helps. </div>
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<b>IHOSE:</b> What is your interest in
Canonical toast? </div>
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<b>DAVIES:</b> Once I started work on the
website, I started thinking seriously about Sherlockian toasts in general, not
just my panicky need to come up with something good to say about Dr. Watson.
And that’s when I began thinking about the toasts as fragmentary oral records
of Sherlockian culture. My hope now is that if we can accumulate enough toasts
— old and new — we will build a new perspective on Sherlockian history. So,
Sherlockians, please do send me your toasts: all of them!</div>
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Toasters may send in their toasts; they need not be current.
Blow the dust of those yellowing index cards to the Canonical honoree given at
that half-forgotten scion meeting and <a href="http://www.rossdavies.org/toasts" target="_blank">head over to the site</a>.
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 Name of the author</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Subject of the toast</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Audience (scion society or state dinner or other)</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Date it was offered</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Text of the toast (with annotations, and audio/video
recordings, if you like)</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Copyright notice (we assume the author holds
it unless you say otherwise)</div>
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Note: By your submission you<b>’</b>re
giving the website permission to publish it there and elsewhere (maybe in a
“Sherlockian Toasts” pamphlet, for example). But of course it remains <b>your</b>
toast, to do with as you see fit.</div>
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This little-explored area of Sherlockian society will have a bit
light shed upon it in the upcoming Fall issue of <a href="http://johnhwatsonsociety.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Watsonian</i></a>. You will read just a sample of the many forms of
salutation and gratitude that have been given to that body of work, the Canon,
that we esteem so. Many scions today make an effort to collect their toasters'
notes and archive them. Perhaps some of the atmosphere of sodality and fellowship
are lost in the transition to print. Of course we can rectify that with a
figurative (or literal) “kampai”, and a fond remembrance of a meeting gone by
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Canonical Toasts

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About Sixty Eliminates the Improbable

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As a devotee of Sherlock Holmes, you've probably asked — or have been asked — "What's the best Sherlock Holmes story?"<br />
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And you've likely answered in the same way as most people who have read the entire set of 56 short stories and four novels. That is to say, you've mentioned "A Scandal in Bohemia," the first short story in the Canon, in which Sherlock Holmes meets Irene Adler, who captures his admiration when she beats him. Or "The Speckled Band," where a young lady seeks help after her sister dies under mysterious circumstances and she finds herself in the same situation. Or <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, with its spine-tingling exchange between Dr. Mortimer and Sherlock Holmes:<br />
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  "Footprints?"<br />"Footprints."<br />"A man's or a woman's?"<br />Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered: —<br />"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"</blockquote>
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In 1927, the <i>Strand Magazin</i>e held a contest challenging readers to choose the top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, to determine who would match a list of 12 stories selected by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:</div>
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<li>"The Speckled Band"</li>
<li>"The Red-Headed League"</li>
<li>"The Dancing Men"</li>
<li>"The Final Problem"</li>
<li>"A Scandal in Bohemia" </li>
<li>"The Empty House" </li>
<li>"The Five Orange Pips" </li>
<li>"The Second Stain" </li>
<li>"The Devil's Foot" </li>
<li>"The Priory School" </li>
<li>"The Musgrave Ritual" </li>
<li>"The Reigate Squires" </li>
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Of course, this was before the final installment of short stories, <i>The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes</i>, was published, so the final dozen stories aren't considered in Conan Doyle's original list. Randall Stock has <a href="http://www.bestofsherlock.com/story/storyhm.htm" target="_blank">a summary of all of the surveys that sought to revisit this eternal question</a>, including the results of one that he ran in the Baker Street Journal in 1999.<br /><br />The wonderful thing about asking Sherlockians to create such as list is, none of them would be wrong. We all like various stories for particular reasons. The Canon leaves a personalized imprint on our hearts and minds.</div>
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But what if someone asked you to defend the indefensible? What if you were asked to champion the worst story in the Sherlock Holmes collection? Well, <i>your</i> worst may not be someone else's worst. There may be other readers who have vastly differing opinions on the matter.</div>
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And so with that concept in mind, Christopher Redmond decided to undertake a project called <b><i>About Sixty</i></b>, in which he challenged sixty Sherlockians to make a case why each one of the stories in the Sherlock Holmes Canon is the best. He mentioned this in our interview with him in <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose99" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 99</a> of IHOSE. The result is <a href="http://wildsidepress.com/about-sixty-why-every-sherlock-holmes-story-is-the-best-edited-by-christopher-redmond-paperback/" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">About Sixty: Why Every Sherlock Holmes Stories is the Best</a>, edited by Redmond himself.</div>
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Episode 105: Echoes of Sherlock Holmes

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Laurie R. King, BSI ("The Red Circle") and Leslie S. Klinger, BSI ("The Abbey Grange") are no strangers to the mystery genre. Laurie is probably best known for her Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes stories, and Les has annotated the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dracula, Sandman and H.P. Lovecraft.<br />
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<li>Laurie's latest book: <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mary-Russells-Russell-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/146420733X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475202559&sr=1-1&keywords=Mary+Russell%27s+War+%26+Other+Stories" target="_blank">Mary Russell's War and Other Stories</a></i></li>
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