C.J. Williams's Blog, page 30
January 18, 2012
SOPA / PIPA Blackout
Overlooker—or Easiest to Overlook Nooks—blacked out as protest to U.S. Senate's mad copyright muddlings.
Back tomorrow.
January 17, 2012
Hit this for a hiccup of hackneyed humour. Oh yes.
Hit this for a hiccup of hackneyed humour. Oh yes.
To Quantify by Quote
Once—in mind's kind
legerdemain—
I bred words through
birdsong; long
twilight of winsome
lingering chords
belonged
to wonder; whimsy; free.
Do you know, I'm not wholly keen on the final punctuation—but line breaks were much too dramatic.
This, however, for a brief blunder into the nooks of writing: Rilke wrote a young poet, with the advice that makes all blanch, I think. To be utterly honest, and look inward.
[You're asking the wrong questions!] There is only one thing you should do. Go into...
"The Final Problem," remarks Nicholas Utechin in "The...
Moriarty is Imaginary
Moriarty is Innocent
Moriarty lives
Holmes is Guilty
"The Final Problem," remarks Nicholas Utechin in "The Importance of 'The Final Problem'", "has probably given rise to more discussions among Holmesians than any other in the Canon." - Leslie S. Klinger, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
An Interjection
Watson: So why do you put up with him?
Lestrade: Because I'm desperate, that's why. Because Sherlock Holmes is a great man, and I think one day—if we're very very lucky—he might even be a good one.
[ photo courtesy of A Bit of Anything, http://book-of-flights.tumblr.com ]
Lestrade, one of the three friends identified by dear Jim Moriarty.
And it's the classic paradox, isn't it? That Holmes becomes a good man by sacrificing even the appearance of being a merely 'great' man.
January 16, 2012
The End of the Rope--or Pulse?
Pulse-stopping speculation. Oh indeed, my dear Watson, you took my pulse. I should like to reference Sherlock, BBC, Reichenbach Fall.
Moriarty's Peculiar Concept of Sexiness
Jim Moriarty: I'm going to make you jump off a building. That's much sexier.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
January 14, 2012
Sherlock Holmes, and Rampant Curiosity
I have recently been in a furrow of Holmesian musing, and the bordering on obsessive cogitating on the stories and characters—in all of their manifestations, BBC 1 to Granada, to William Gillette and canon—has made me aware of a familiar character prowling: Rampant Curiosity. (Also, long sentences.) The long sentences I miss; Rampant, I don't. The one is the product of time, peace, the serenity to string fullness into words which don't blow the brain like gun-shots. The other is the product o...
