Aug 10, 2018
excerpt of Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
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excerpt of Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
“David Galerstein points out that it was winter and the weather was severe; it is therefore obvious that Holmes and Milverton’s maid would have to meet indoors, in her bedroom. Only by sleeping with the maid, Galerstein insists, could Holmes acquire the inside information he so urgently needed. “We have seen cases where the Master risked his life to help a client,” Galerstein writes admiringly. “We now see that his profession made other demands on him too, and marvel at the extent to which a private detective must sometimes go to help his client.” Judy L. Buddle expresses a similar view, although she suggests that Holmes’s “swagger” evidences some enthusiasm for the job. Finally, Alan Wilson spins the fanciful theory that Holmes and Agatha eventually had a son, one Sylvanus Escott.“
don’t get me wrong, I adore the Sherlock Holmes annotated editions, but the fact that they bring this ridiculous theory up & dismiss homoerotic subtext is ... distasteful. Holmes describes Milverton as “the worst man in London”; he goes onto to say “I’ve had to do with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me the repulsion which I have for this fellow.” of course he would be enthusiastic to bring him down. additionally, I can’t see Holmes deciding to have sex with the Agatha, therefore taking even more advantage of her than he already is. he condemns men like this in stories like ‘The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist’ and ‘The Problem of Thor Bridge’— do they think nothing of that?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar interviewed by Lynsday Faye for CrimeReads (x)
I picked up a 7$ first edition of Naked is the Best Disguise today!
excerpt of ‘The Adventure of the Abbey Grange’ The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1904.
some vocabulary from The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (definitions courtesy of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes)
de novo, Latin— anew, afresh. A trial de novo is one at which none of the evidence or rulings from any previous trial is automatically placed before the judge.
forment, noun— to apply hot, moist cloths to the body; to treat with a poultice or warm medicinal compress.
vox populi, vox dei, Latin— the voice of the people is the voice of G-d. a proverb attributed to William of Malmesbury in the twelfth century. Legal scholars credit the growth of the jury as an institution in the Middle Ages to its rôle in ameliorating the “divine” justice dispensed by the royal court.
Jorge Luis Borges, interviewed by Fernando Sorrentino, on Sherlock Holmes
“The east had been gradually whitening, and we could now see some distance in the cold gray light. The square, massive house, with its black, empty windows and high, bare walls, towered up, sad and forlorn, behind us. Our course led right across the grounds, in and out among the trenches and pits with which they were scarred and intersected. The whole place, with its scattered dirt-heaps and ill-grown shrubs, had a blighted, ill-omened look which harmonized with the black tragedy which hung over it.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, excerpt of The Sign of the Four