{"id":81,"date":"2004-02-20T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T15:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/20\/sherlockiana.html"},"modified":"2004-02-20T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T15:34:13","slug":"sherlockiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/20\/sherlockiana.html","title":{"rendered":"Sherlockiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading &#8220;The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes&#8221; this morning, the first time I&#8217;ve read any Holmes stories since the time when I was 13 and obsessed with all things Holmes.  The stories had all the atmosphere and intrigue I remember, but many of them turned on such a small point that they hardly seemed worthy of being entire &#8220;adventures.&#8221;  The pattern of &#8220;survivor of old romance\/battle\/shipwreck\/crime returns to exact punishment on those who turned him down\/left him for dead\/turned him in\/ratted him out&#8221; was used more than a few times, as well, providing a convenient plot twist that couldn&#8217;t be known without a revelation from the past.  I couldn&#8217;t help but imagine Holmes and Watson as they appeared in the Granada TV series we used to watch on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.kska.org\">Channel 7<\/A>, starring <a title=\"The Brettish Empire - JBTV Part III\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brettish.com\/jbtv-iii.html\">Jeremy Brett<\/a> as Holmes, and in kind of a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.harpiesbizarre.com\/beography-ds.htm\">Two Darrins<\/A> on &#8220;Bewitched&#8221; situation, both <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0121651\/\">David Burke<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0362570\/\">Edward Hardwicke<\/A> at Dr. Watson. The series was really well done, as I remember, and they managed to film almost all 60 Holmes stories before Brett&#8217;s untimely death in 1995.  Now if I could just find my Sherlock Holmes sonnet I wrote for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/analyticalgrammar.com\/BIO.html\">Mrs. Finley<\/A>&#8216;s 8th grade English class&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading &#8220;The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes&#8221; this morning, the first time I&#8217;ve read any Holmes stories since the time when I was 13 and obsessed with all things Holmes. The stories had all the atmosphere and intrigue I remember, but many of them turned on such a small point that they hardly seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}