HOLMES IN THE STRAND MAGAZINE PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE CLARIFIED SOME MATTERS ABOUT Sherlock Holmes’ stuff: a non-Canonical crooked-stem meerschaum and his authentic country-attire deerstalkers. We continue today in Part 2 with other head wear, his magnifying … Continue reading
HOLMES IN THE STRAND MAGAZINE PART 1
ARTIFACTS OF THE WORLD’S FIRST CONSULTING DETECTIVE are familiar—the oversize meerschaum pipe with its crooked stem, the deerstalker cap, the magnifying glass. Curiously, though, one of these items is relatively … Continue reading
AN OPERATIC HOLMES PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1 HAYLEY COYLE of BBC News reported on “What the Deuce? Sherlock Holmes Opera Debut.” A Matter of the Mysterious “The.” This new opera, “Sherlock Holmes and … Continue reading
AN OPERATIC HOLMES PART 1
SHERLOCK HOLMES (THE REAL ONE as we Sherlockians like to believe) has been portrayed in numerous films, at least thrice on the musical stage, once in a ballet—and now, according … Continue reading
HOLMES AND A.I. PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE BEGAN EXPLORING how attuned the world’s greatest consultive detective would have been with Artificial Intelligence. We continue here in Part 2 with more analyses. There’s … Continue reading
HOLMES AND A.I. PART 1
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD’S GREATEST consulting detective think of Artificial Intelligence? Having examined Sherlockiana for clues, I offer tidbits for some future Large Language Model. The LLM will have Parts … Continue reading
TURING’S BOMBE; HOLMES MEETS HARRY NILE
TALK ABOUT SERENDIPITY: November 30 marks publication of Alan Turing’s 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers, with Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.” The November 2023 issue of BBC HISTORY recounts this idea … Continue reading
SCRIPTS REDUX PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE LEARNED OF A RECYCLED SCRIPT going from play to movie to Broadway musical to movie of the musical. Today, the recycling continues, even to including an original author … Continue reading
CANDY MATSON—SAN FRANCISCO SLEUTHETTE EXTRAORDINAIRE
DURING THE GOLD AGE OF RADIO, a number of sleuths were Californians. Sam Spade’s encounters with Casper Gutman were in San Francisco, indeed twice: with the Maltese Falcon and the … Continue reading
SHERLOCK HOLMES COMICS
IT WOULD BE ANACHRONISTIC to call these “Holmes Manga,” but as comic authority Paul Gravett said of manga, they’re “more than telling a story, as much as feeling a story.” … Continue reading
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