Showing posts with label arthur conan doyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arthur conan doyle. Show all posts
Sunday, May 10, 2026

THE READING RHEUM: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1902)

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I've probably read Doyle's HOUND two or three times just for pleasure, but not since starting this blog in 2007. I recall occasional...
Friday, October 24, 2025

VARIATIONS STRONG AND WEAK

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 Though I've used the terms "strong" and "weak" at times to denote the way later authors render their variations on ...
Monday, September 2, 2024

COSMIC ALIGNMENT PT. 7

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Most support-characters, like most the subordinate villains discussed in Part 5 , default to "static alignment" with whoever or wh...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

THE READING RHEUM: TEN YEARS BEYOND BAKER STREET (1984)

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  Over a decade after Cay Van Ash, former secretary to Sax Rohmer, completed the only book-length Rohmer biography , he published this work,...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

THE READING RHEUM: THE LOST WORLD (1912)

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SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS Where the real sex feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its companions, heritage from old wicked days when l...
Monday, April 24, 2017

GOOD WILL QUANTUMS PT. 3

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In GOOD WILL QUANTUMS PT. 2 I said: But although "density/complexity" is the primary criterion of fictional excellence in any ...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS PT. 2

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This is not so much a follow-up to the first ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS essay  as to my recent myth-analysis of LOVE IN HELL -- reason being tha...