Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 108
February 14, 2022
AUTUMN ODE
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February 13, 2022
Excerpts from “An Open Letter From Sherlock Holmes”
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“To readers of the accounts of my investigatory cases:
“I have undertaken to commit this autobiographical revelation of the factual events of my life to writing, at the suggestion and encouragement of my best friend in the world, my brother Mycroft Holmes.”
“The written record of my adventures as conveyed by Dr. John Hamish Watson, rather than myself, as you will read herein, are a fallacious perversion of the reality of my own identity and activities.”
You may recall that, at the end of the first published story of my detectives adventures, A Study in Scarlet, Watson was so impressed by my elegant handling of the case, and so incensed by Scotland Yard’s claiming full credit for its solution, that he exclaimed: “Your merits should be publicly recognized. You should publish an account of the case. If you won’t, I will for you.”
Owing to my utter disinterest in self-proclamation, and my propensity toward the incessant pursuit of new mysteries to solve, my response to this proposal was, “You may do what you like, Doctor.”
Hence, Watson proceeded to write the story, which was represented as “a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson”, or so I was led to assume. None of the facts you will read herein have ever been surmised, supposed and imagined with respect to any of my adventures. Indeed, the nature and identity of the dramatis personae on the stage of the intrigue I relate to you now have never before been revealed.
The challenges of this case were the most difficult I ever faced in my career. Indeed, the formidable combination of investigation skills, information gathering, and persistence required the considerable energies of both myself and my dear brother, Mycroft, together with a legion of agents from the Office of The Chancellor of The Exchequer, as well as the Secret Information Services (SIS), whose resources were engaged upon the matter for several years.”
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.”
I invite you to join this escapade, if you will indulge me, into my ultimate adventure. Moreover, I trust that posterity will inherit some small benefit from these observations upon the volatile process, distillation and residue of my life.”
Sherlock Holmes
Sussex Downs, England”
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— Excerpted from “An Open Letter from Sherlock Holmes”, published in the book, “Sherlock Holmes: My Life”
DOORS INTO OTHER UNIVERSES
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How often have you wished that you could open a door, and walk through it into a different universe? Here are a few you might try….
February 12, 2022
PORN
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One report published in the first quarter of 2010, asserts that 37 percent of all the content hosted on the Internet was of a pornographic nature. That number comes from Optenet, a global IT security company. After porn, the next four content types are shopping (9 percent), travel (5.7), computing (4.2) and sports (4.2). The study looked at 4 million URLs. Among the interesting things it discovered was that porn appears to be on the rise. Between 2009 and 2010, pornographic sites increased by 17 percent. The study also offers other interesting conclusions on other types of growing content. Sites about online games (like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XI) have grown 212 percent!
However, the Internet may not be as pornography-filled as you might think. In fact, according to one expert, only 42,337 of the one million most-trafficked websites online are offering sex-related content, which translates into somewhere around 4% of sites on the Internet. That surprising figure—am I the only person who expected it to be much higher?—comes from neuroscientist Ogi Ogas who collected porn statistics as research for his book A Billion Wicked Thoughts. He went on to say that 13% of all web searches between July 2009 and July 2010 were for “erotic content,” down from an estimated 40-50% ten years earlier.
Porn’s big business, by anyone’s measure. According to TechCrunch, in 2006, U.S. porn sites generated $2.84 billion in revenue (thank you, mostly men—72% were then listed as porn viewers). More recent statistics put the number of pornographic websites at 4.2 million (about 12% of total, a substantial slice), Internet porn sales at nearly $5 billion, peg porn-related materials to a full 25% of daily search engine requests, claim 42.7% of Internet users view porn, and note that it’s not just guys crawling the web’s steamier side these days—one in three visitors to adult websites is female. The majority of viewers of online pornography are men; women tend to prefer romance novels and erotic fan fiction. Women comprise about one quarter to one third of visitors to popular pornography websites, but are only 2% of subscribers to pay sites. Subscribers with female names are flagged as signs of potential credit card fraud, because “so many of these charges result in an angry wife or mother demanding a refund for the misuse of her card.
Of course, pornography has an advantage when it comes to total Internet volume: porn sites usually consist of bandwidth-hogging videos. If not for this, we believe the Web would be dominated by photos of cats.
Here is a link to a “FREE PORN” website that females will be happy for their man to visit:
February 11, 2022
POINT OF VIEW
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THE ULTIMATE SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY
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“My dear fellows! How delightful to see you both again. It has been several months since our most recent adventure together, so I surmise, Sherlock, that some new investigation in pressing upon you? Otherwise, I am sure that you would not bother yourself to venture to visit me personally at the club. Any matter of less urgency would certainly be addressed to me by letter, or telegram. Am I not correct?”, said Mycroft, grasping both of our hands in turn with cordiality.
“As always, your observation and supposition are accurate”, I said, confirming what was already obvious to my brother. “However, I assure you than the game that is afoot contains none of the gravity that others I have undertaken”. At this, Mycroft’s expression changed from one of concern to mild interest.
“Please take a seat and explain the particulars to me, if this room is suitable for discussion of details”, he said, waving his hand toward several richly upholstered leather chairs.
Mycroft is heavily built and massive, there was a suggestion of uncouth physical inertia in the figure, but above this unwieldy frame there is perched a head so masterful in its brow, so alert in its steel-gray, deep-set eyes, so firm in its lips, and so subtle in its play of expression, that after the first glance one forgot the gross body and remembered only the dominant mind.
“I cannot think of a more suitable environment in which to discuss the nature of this case than that of a club founded on the philosophical principles of Cynicism”, I told him in a bland matter-of-fact tone.
“Let us fill our pipes”, I said reaching into my pocket for a tobacco poach and briar pipe, “as an explanation of the matter at hand will easily consume our meal time, as well as a portion of the evening. Can a meal be served to us here, if it is not too great an imposition upon your generosity?”, I said as I sat down, ready to share as much information with my esteemed brother as would be necessary to facilitate his analysis of the matter.
“By all means, my dear Sherlock. By all means!”, he said in eager anticipation of a mystery that might divert his attention from an otherwise unfulfilling evening of silent reading at the Club before retiring to his quarters for an equally uneventful night of dreamless sleep.
After recounting the details of my visit with Charles Dodgson and my subsequent invitation to him to dine with us at Baker Street, I summarized the nature of the matter. Mycroft listened attentively while tamping and relighting his pipe several times in order to sustain a satisfactory stream of air through the stem. When I had concluded my account, he raised his eyes to me.
“Well then, let us hear your suspicions, and I will look after the proofs”, said Mycroft.
“In short, my dear Mycroft, it appears that Mr. Dodgson, in league with Mr. Arthur Doyle, are accusing me and therefore all of my associates, of impersonating fictional characters! The assertion is that the stories published by Doyle as magazine serials, or in books, are merely works of his imagination. Moreover, this cad claims that the chronicles of my investigations, which are written by Dr. Watson, are innovations of his own. Can you conceive such a blatantly fraudulent accusation?”, I asked him.
Mycroft stared at me for a moment, and then with a glare turned in his chair and addressed Dr. Watson in an icy tone.
“Dr. Watson”, he said, “it is most obvious that the motivation for this absurd intrigue must begin with you. How is it that Mr. Doyle has come into the possession of your written accounts of the detective cases of Sherlock Holmes, and subsequently published them in his own name?”
— Excerpt from SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE by Lawrence R. Spencer
SLOW LIFE
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Slow Life from Daniel Stoupin on Vimeo.
FREE OURSELVES
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February 10, 2022
SOURCE AND CONTENT OF CHEMTRAIL SPRAY MIX REVEALED
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This video solves the 20 year old mysteries:
WHO IS MAKING THE CHEMTRAIL SPRAY MIX?
WHERE DOES THE CHEMTRAIL SPRAY MIX COME FROM?
