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Discovered that when trying to free up space in perpetually 'not enough space' phone, 'empty cache' is good for all apps. 'Delete data' is fine for everything but browser. Since no manufacturer these days will tell you anything about phones, tablets, laptops or desktops (instruction manuals, oh yes, I remembers them) one must learn by trial and error; and occasionally that involves deleting all your browser's bookmarks.
Evening with the Young Ladies last night. We watched a Percy Jackson film. Discover that Percy Jackson works infinitely better as a movie than as a book.
I don't say that all recent Holmes pastiche is ridden with vocabulary near misses, but certainly Paul D. Gilbert's stuff is. Not the true howlers, but a string of niggly Wrong Words that eventually begin to grate. "Holmes' long, sinewy fingers reached out greedily for the wire and he began to read it with urgent intent." "...I believe that our client is sincere in her interpretation of the events she has witnessed. As to whether my investigations validate that construer is, of course, an altogether different matter." "...Daxer's hold over Douglas had its roots in Dundas' handling of the Prussian Crisis, the event that precipitated his meteoric rise to political imminence." And on and on.
Evening with the Young Ladies last night. We watched a Percy Jackson film. Discover that Percy Jackson works infinitely better as a movie than as a book.
I don't say that all recent Holmes pastiche is ridden with vocabulary near misses, but certainly Paul D. Gilbert's stuff is. Not the true howlers, but a string of niggly Wrong Words that eventually begin to grate. "Holmes' long, sinewy fingers reached out greedily for the wire and he began to read it with urgent intent." "...I believe that our client is sincere in her interpretation of the events she has witnessed. As to whether my investigations validate that construer is, of course, an altogether different matter." "...Daxer's hold over Douglas had its roots in Dundas' handling of the Prussian Crisis, the event that precipitated his meteoric rise to political imminence." And on and on.
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the one who tends to be distracted by the women and maybe....not underestimate them, but he's kind of always responding to them as a man. Holmes doesn't do that.
Exactly. It's why I've always seen Holmes as asexual. He doesn't respond to women on any kind of sexual plane.
That's a lovely lovely blog. I want to go and read all the back entries. But it stops at the end of 2016? Trump-induced weltschmerz, was it? (I agree with all opinions expressed, and wasn't immensely impressed by The Italian Secretary FWIW.
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The ones I've seen have just been Holmes & Ripper, altho I think there's a whole series that goes Holmes and the Mummy, Holmes and the Wolfman, &c &c. Not sure why.
I've come across a handful of Holmes&Ripper stories and found them rather badly done. (The movie Murder by Decree was just fine, though the solution was ridiculous.) But I trust Faye more than (cough) certain other writers and will give her a try.
They are mostly terrible (altho I DID just uncover this poster for Study in Terror: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Study_in_terror43.jpg). Faye's quite a good writer, though -- if you read it I'd be interested to know what you think of it!
Exactly. It's why I've always seen Holmes as asexual. He doesn't respond to women on any kind of sexual plane.
He sure doesn't. He's the brain, Watson's the heart. Altho he can be v emotional too! But it's like that early joke, altho I think ACD walked it back, about how he wouldn't care if the earth orbits the sun or otherwise, it's not in his focus.
That's a lovely lovely blog. I want to go and read all the back entries. But it stops at the end of 2016? Trump-induced weltschmerz, was it? (I agree with all opinions expressed, and wasn't immensely impressed by The Italian Secretary FWIW.
Aww thanks! I miss it....yeah, I was just flattened. I just couldn't believe it. Some not-so-small part of me still can't believe it. *hands*
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Shall put Faye in the queue and write up my impressions if and when.
I share your dismay at the election result and I don't even live in your country. 'How can this be happening?' It suddenly made everything seem pointless: I even abandoned my reading challenge for 2016 because really, why bother when the world is coming to an end.