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AMO ... 'fake' AMO & MUMMY HOLMES
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Mummy Holmes doesn't appear a lot in this story. Despite of that she manages to represent a rather contradictory character. In TEH she is introduced for the first time and described as very 'ordinary'. This changes the second time she turns up. In HLV Mummy Holmes is suddenly revealed as genius mathematcian who even wrote a book about 'The Dynamics of Combustion'. Janus-faced indeed.
Interestingly Mummy's hairstyle resembles that of Lady Smallwood very closely ... who in turn is a bit of a double-faced character herself. Two first names are given to her .... Elizabeth and Alicia.
Regarding the hairstyle - there is one intereting exception:
At the end of TFP Mummy Holmes looks quite different. I wrote about this little mystery a few months back, in April, because it isn't just the similar hairstyle and the Janus-faced characterisation which connects these two women. There are also two mirror-scenes involving the Holmes brothers.
In HLV Mummy Holmes treats her adult sons like they are still teens ... and both brothers even react very much as such:
MRS. HOLMES (crossly): Are you two smoking? MYCROFT: No! SHERLOCK (almost simultaneously): It was Mycroft
In TST Lady Smallwood calls 'Mr. Holmes' to order ... which creates a rather similar effect on both brothers.
LADY SMALLWOOD (firmly): Mr Holmes. MYCROFT and SHERLOCK (simultaneously): Yes? LADY SMALLWOOD: We do need to get on.
This is Mummy Holmes at the end of TFP with a very different hair style.
Then I noticed something else ...
It happened while I wrote about 'Personal Assistants, receptionists, secretaries and nurses' ..... when I stumbled over the picture below ....
Lo and behold: Amo and 'fake' Amo ... side by side ...
I have no idea what to make of it but it has the distinct smell of an important mystery ... of a still hidden secret ....
And there is this weird litte line of dialoge in TAB - spoken by Mycroft - Sherlock's 'brain' - directly after the murdered Eustace Carmichael is discoverd.
... when one pushes a maths professor over a waterfall ...
Weird - because in this story modern Jim Moriarty isn't a maths professor nor gets he pushed over a waterfall. And doubly weird - because this scene happens a good deal before Sherlock and Jim even meet at the victorian Reichenbach Fall in TAB.
But of course, this 'fall' could just be a nice canon reference ....
I leave you to your own deductions. Thanks @callie-ariane for the scripts.
September, 2017
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Each living ideological sign has two faces, like Janus. Any current curse word can become a word of praise, any current truth must inevitable sound to many other people as the greatest lie. This inner dialectical quality of the sign comes out fully in the open only during times of social crisis or revolutionary changes. In the ordinary conditions of life, the contradiction embedded in every ideological sign cannot fully emerge because the ideological sign in an established dominant ideology is always somewhat reactionary and tries, as it were, to stabilise the preceding factor in the dialectical flux of the social, generative process, so accentuating yesterday's truth so as to make it appear today's.
V.N. Vološinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, p.23-4.
