Things Are Afoot

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Things Are Afoot

by Glen Wells

Prologue to an Aunty Ex-con

"Things are afoot dear Watson."

'What makes you so sure?'"An elaborate ruse on a global scale, for what purpose?"'Pacification.'"Possibly, still something is happening, popular demand isgrowing."'The customer is always right.'"Certain ones to be sure."'Are you one?'

"Me? You know me all too well."'You're as much a mystery as any, sometimes more. But yesI know you well enough to know. A stout hearted fellow, withkeen observation, that serves your 'clients', usually in asatisfactory way.'"Alas, all too temporary, many seem to draw their dilemmas,as much as their antagonist do."'Speaking of antagonist, you said you'd share ProfessorMoriarty's private message.'"Ah, yes. Should I recite or do you wish to peruse themissive yourself?"'I'd like the opportunity to examine the handwriting.'"Test your new found skills?"'Please Mr. Holmes, I merely read a book on hand writinganalysis.'


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"I await your considered assessment."

She lifts the moon,To show a room,

Where Heaven is made real,There is touch to awake,And dawn for our sake,Making memories to keep.

_____________________P.M.

'I believe his pen is running out of ink.'"Yes, it is rather sketchy."

Ahem.....should anyone care to take a stab at decipheringMoriarty's cryptic code.It would seem that 'for our sake' refers to Holmes and theProfessor, as for the rest it might be any one's guess.Prizes awarded for all intrepid entries. Expect some fin,

parcel post pending passing inspection.

Quantum Mechanics Explained: The Novel you've beenwaiting for...

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It's about light. Is it a wave or a particle? Its speed can bemeasured, about 186,000 miles per second, but not its


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position, actually a light's place is between its source towhere it might be absorbed and where it goes to change,although it can also be reflected, even right back where itcame from. Some have called light a wavicle, some a duality.

Actually a wave can be divided or separated into littleindividual bits and particles can be strung together to be astanding wave, kind of like standing at attention or justhaving some, like the guards at Buckingham Palace. Butwhen not held taut and the ends, point of departure andarrival, or even just one end are left loose, then light can belike a whip or trampoline, flying spaghetti, a very versatileand creative dance, can be loopy and maybe even soupy, it

helps, some say catalyze, a leaf make chloroform, some skinmake Vitamin D. Light can make hot, why it even helps makecold. So duality I see as a narrow, limited view, a little liketunnel vision, where light is a multiplicity, providing a wideangle view, both minute and large, illuminates and sedatesby its absence. Alas, this explanation is but a tip of an iceberg, what lies hidden deep or far is a lucky ones guess,educated or not, bursting forth like a fountain of youth,

spraying gifts to those who catch, burning off a mid-daycloud, raining down to furrowed ground, heating pools on alazy afternoon, and while sipping a mint julep or two, wonderat that leaf made green, wave a grand hello and say thankyou.

#2 [-]Glen,

"Interesting. : )I would make a very poor sleuth.Moriarty's message leaves me clueless.I trust the story will reveal its meaning (?)"


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S

#3 [-]

Without excuse all replies can not help but reveal a puzzlepiece.

S's response: Interesting. : )I would make a very poor sleuth. = Moriarty has made a poorsubstitute for HolmesMoriarty's message leaves me clueless. = Moriarty's plan isto kidnap Holmes leaving Watson with an inept Holmes

lookalike.I trust the story will reveal its meaning(?)= It will be up toWatson now.

Moriarty's next clue: less is more #4 [-]image2 Chapter

Tankto the one man who said nolet this be our final battlegroundmy bones are weary, my tongue-tied to a postI have not the words to say you are welcomemy ghost has given up the toastto a town that never sleepsit's free now thanks to me

*you may know by now you and Watson are writing the storynow.and Moriarty?Well, as usual he's up to no good, but at least I hear he is


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keeping Holmes comfortable and well fed.He's civil to a point, but honestly he's not right in the head,the kind of thinking that says one must destroy in order tosave.

It seems that 'a town that never sleeps' might be New YorkCity, at least a place to start.Watson is boarding a jet and for the first time has gottenfeelings of mistrust toward of all people his most loyal andtrue friend.not-Holmes is making full use of the drink cart and has beenbabbling about what Broadway show should they should seefirst when they arrive and then suddenly launches into a

weird tale about a visit to what appears to be a dentist.

A Thin Disguise

I couldn't help but think that the German accent was fakeand it was all an elaborate joke. Except I wasn't laughing."You are lying!"

"I haven't said anything.""With your eyes.""Lyin' eyes, mmm. How does one lie with their eyes?""If you could see them, it would be obvious, but don't botherlooking in a mirror. Mirrors are liars too.""How is it obvious?"The fake German accent's assistant made a small cough togain my attention."He tells everyone that their eyes lie. It's not like eyes cantell the truth.""You mean like looks can't really kill.""Well, not like daggers shooting out, but I've seenthunderbolts.""Thunderbolts? Is that a tongue I see, through those softparted lips, lying. Who has thunderbolts flying out their lyin'


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eyes?""Thor, of course.""Of course.""Enough of your chit chattery chat. Open wide, show me if

your gums are in cahoots with your lyin' eyes.""Gums? How can gums lie?""Oh please, grow up or something, it's not your eyes, ears,nose, mouth, chin, teeth or lips that does the lyin'(the German accent places two absurdly large hands oneither side of my head), it's inside here, somewhere in themysterious folds of your brain, at this precise moment, youare, unbeknown to yourself of course, concocting new and

improved,devious and impervious, beautiful and exquisite lies, gloriousand impenetrable, ever striving for new pinnacles ofmisconception.""And no doubt you are doing the same.""Of course."The assistant has started to play with my feet."What do you think you are doing?"

"You can't tell? I'm playing with your feet, rather petite feet Imay add.""You may not add, subtract or otherwise co-mingle with myfeet! Is this all some sort of elaborate joke?"I started laughing, my feet are really quite ticklish. Theassistant seemed to grow tired or bored and wandered off,leaving my feetdangling, bereft of feathery touch, somewhat solemn now.The German accent has his back turned to me and seemedto be calibratingsome sort of strange unwieldy mechanical device, who'spurpose could certainly not bode well for me, perhaps nowwould be anopportune time to make my escape, but the accent suddenlyturned with that thought.


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"Escape won't be necessary. This machine merely measurescertain brain waves that have previously gone undetected.No harm willcome to you. I took an oath."

"Wow, that's great, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzyinside. Tuck me in? What are these previously undetectedbrain waves?"The lyin' waves, of course.""Of course. How about you, seen any thunderbolts lately?""Normally, Thor is quite pleasant, a hair-trigger on the temperthough.""Normally and Thor should not follow each other in the same

sentence.""What?" Oh, I see. Thor is part of our defense perimeter.Thor is a robotic sentinel with laser armaments.""Actually, that's kind of a relief.""You might not say that if you heard its programmercomplain about not all the bugs have been worked out.""Great. May I leave now."

letter openedI want you to believe that I don't want you to believe whatyou don't want to believe, and vice versa. It sounds sillywhen it's put that way, as I have no choice to believeotherwise. "...no getting away from it."

Whatever happened to where there's a will there's away?I would agree that will alone is not enough, but coupled withability and whatever else is needed, in some sense it mightnot get past planning stages, brainstorming sessions, wherethe main topic remains unresolved, but side effects,


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byproducts and the like flourish in an atmosphere ofsearchingFor answers, solutions and possibilities, this particular'barrier' may prove to be not so intractable as others that

have fallen, been modified, work around in some manner,and the repeatability of something which is only sometimeswholly desirable, onetime events, a singular sensation mayoccur that truly rocks a world, such as this.But there does appear to be some trying to avoid and orsimply neglecting to believe anything. Sounds like you mightbe encouraging one to not try, as for it's a waste thatsquanders attention to actual 'doable' stuff, if there's even

that option available. On the other hand, you have this 'gun',so to speak, and you are sticking to it.And does one have to have it incorrect for you to have tohave to express the concept that 'this is as it is and there areno other options?What are the results of not defying and defying laws that aremore mutable than you seem to expect?Expression of opinions more for the sake of discussion and

not meant to over step my interpretive powers, if there beany at all, more as advocate for exploration andexperimentation.Running into barriers, will stop one in their tracks, but stillthat does not say that nothing is left to learn and discoverfrom smashing things together. even near misses andglancing blows might be revealing of novel behavior.Here's a recent quote that 'caught' my attention,"It appears that the anti-viral Tamiflu was successful intreating and preventing the current novelflu symptoms."'It appears' is a qualifier that addresses a fact that not allcases are the same, or as predictable as others, in this casefor example, that there there are exceptions and perhapsthat exceptions are not necessarily proof of a rule. 'Itappears' allows possibilities of other factors contributing to


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the success and or failure of a given remedy.Since the synergistic concept appears to be at work in theuniverse at large, the over-all ecology of individuals cometogether, drift apart, travel different paths towards a future

that may never lose the heat that can not quite be gottenaway from."Super massive black holes, such as Sagittarius A*, locatedat the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, radiate their heatvery slowly, meaning such objects will linger in the cosmoslong after the light from the smallest star has burned out,trillions of years from now."

Hawking's famously sharp wit, not to mention the tabloidheadlines, have worked against a remote image. "We arejust an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of avery average star. But we can understand the Universe. Thatmakes us something very special," he once said in atypically pungent observation mixing the mundane and themarvelous.

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#6 [-]"I grasp the fundamentals here, - We already know thatMoriarty has absconded HolmesWe are needing plot movement here.but I have to say that flashes of enlightenment are eluding


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me. - yes, we know, in the dark recesses of the Professor'smind some evil doing is about to burst upon the scene.Coney Island perhaps, they have fireworks I think.In fact, they seem to be fleeing from me even as I approach

them. - Yes, Watson and fake Holmes are landing atLaGuardia and the only available Broadway tickets are for 'ItHappened One Night'."BF

#7 [-]3 Chapter

"he is not afraid to slice or dice " - Holmes

"If math is a digital process of time overlaid on space,">it isn't.

>"the math always falls short of fully describing space,">doesn't matter.

>"due to Godel's theorem.">who cares, Godel sure doesn't.it's okay to build on Godel but to just let it lay thereincomplete, is just wrong on just a simple level of finish whatyou start, without closure the open universe would neverclose. Unless you weren't aiming to close it down oranything. You want to keep it open. Right?

>"Statistical interactions of atoms and electrons asrepresentative of space will always tend toward randomnessas each interaction increases the uncertainty of restoring thepast action of each molecule.">Why always, why tend, how long actually, how much tendexactly? Who's freaking will? Yours? A neighbor? Oh atoms


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are willful reps on a mission. Got it. An observed fact islimited to conditions that don't change. Change conditionsand observers, may tend at least once to alter tendency,frequency and the next report that is due, following the last

report that essentially had nothing new to report, only nowthere is something new to report, but the new reporter is notbeing listened to so much cause the last reporter hadnothing new to report and after hearing the same old non-news over and over again it was thought of not much interestat the time of something new to report but still poorlyunderstood due to its meagerness of change and mostly justa lack of attention and of course the most important factor

that decides what WILL happen. Popular demand.

see above.

Mmmm, seems to be saying they can't be measuredtogether, but can be measured separately, but if they couldbe measured together they would double their pleasure orsomething and that sounds very popular indeed. But actuallythe separate measurements wouldn't actually change if theywere measured together, cause they were already going asfast as they could and smashing pumpkins has born this out,not convincingly, but that would be inside a point ofcontention, if in fact there was something to contend with.


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>and I paraphrase, 'Don't bring God into this, whichever Godyou are referring to.'Okay, drag that load of crap in, it looks lonely. God is kind.Agreed. Cruel gods don't bask in robins. God promotes exits

in case of fire. Sensible. Pro life and Pro choice. Oops, Godis a radically altered mofo who has issues about life anddeath. But decides at the last moment babies are cute andGod definitely does cute to death.

No......wait, if it's a suit you're looking for, I suggest you

measure 3 times then get real down with it."

Forever is a very long time. You just make it seem longerthan it really is. Right. We are not here and we (well one ofus) don't want to get there.

Paul was wrong once, otherwise why would he say, "Sorrymy mistake."...and then there was that other time he was overheard toremark, "Pardon me."

I'm trying to set an example on how great ideas are ridiculed,then misunderstood, then finally accepted often long afterthe poor great idea guy up and died.Health and Happiness to all.

*No-Holmes is barred from Broadway, making a drunkenruckus, ever dutiful Watson escorts his not-friend to theWaldorf Astoria for some restful and sobering sleep.

"Well, I see this is going somewhere, but where? To the


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Grand Caymans, perhaps. Or Philadelphia if Moriarty's ascracked as the Liberty Bell.God is certainty. The uncertainty is which certainty He is.Some would say that math can't lead to God because math

is about finite concepts and God is infinite. Math doesn'thandle infinite with aplomb. If you combine infinity with finityin any mathematical operation, the finite part either blows upbeyond all measurement or shrinks beyond same. The onlyexception is zero. Zero multiplied by infinity is still zero.There are those who would say that this is how man is ableto perceive God - by bringing the infinite down to his level.

It's a good thing that the Heisenberg uncertainty principledoesn't apply to police work. "Well, chief, we can tell youwhere Fingers McGrabby is, or we can tell you where he'sbeen and what he's been up to. We can't do both." SurelyMoriarty doesn't think this principle of quantum physics willkeep Watson off his tail in the macro world?"BF

#9 [-]Excellent BF, solid linguistics that prepare a path, Philly maybe only a sidetrack for the not yet kicked sidekick, who hasgone got exceedingly ticked off. Grand Caymans, yes. HasMoriarty finally succumbed to a financial excuse for hisnefarious acts?Next to the Bell, the Professor is positively 4th Street wheredisaster awaits at every corner, not for himself, no, othersare targeted with esoteric folds of cause and affects thatreverberate through past perceived and imagined slights ofinattention to detail.There's a point thought ceases to make sense and Moriartyplows ahead anyway, as if God was waiting for no particularreason.


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BF, 4 Chapter may not anticipated all your ramifications, butwhere there's a will there's.......uh....4 Chapter.

The Conversation eventually lags #10 [-]4 Chapter

Most do.Indeed.

I thought it Charles, but truthfully I am not sure.A rare thing for you I suspect.My bonds are preventing that at the moment.See for yourself, besides you know they are not, you haveseen to that.Again Professor, you know I am not. What is a Trek thing?Don't you mean who instead of where.Just a bit? If anything can be made of it.....Absurd.Frustrating? Why that?


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You imagine that you are real, possessor of free willperhaps.If I am, it is a joke on the both of us.There is nothing remotely magical about what I do. Or didas the case my now be.More riddles Professor. I fear for your sanity Charles, if thateven be your name.WE are not a we. I am a me and you are a madman whodoes not know his own name. Clearly someone in need ofmedical attention.I often entertain various scenarios, not to be confused withdoubts. I surmise that you were referring to that Doyle fellow.


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Sidekick? I fail to grasp your meaning. Whose side am Ikicking? You have not harmed Watson have you?

I see.You have no doubt sent Watson on a chase, with yourtypically arcane penchant for secrecy, deception andperversity

I begin to feel, as you put it, quite put upon.


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An alternative history #11 [-]

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Holmes described Moriarty as follows:

"He is a man of good birth and excellent education,endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty.

At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the BinomialTheorem, which has had a European vogue. On the strengthof it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smalleruniversities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliantcareer before him.

But the man had hereditary tendencies of the mostdiabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which,

instead of being modified, was increased and renderedinfinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mentalpowers. Dark rumours gathered round him in the Universitytown, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chairand come down to London..."

-Holmes, "The Final Problem"

#12 [-]"I'm more used to seeing restraints called bonds thanbounds. A gap in my knowledge, perhaps, or does such averbal slip mean Holmes is already affected? How much ofthis conversation with Moriarty can be taken at face value -


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not knowing his own name? Very strange!

So, Moriarty is aware of Trek...is he also aware ofMacGyver? If not, he may have forgotten to relieve Holmes

of any stray bits of thread and toothpicks, paper clips, andthe like - and likewise clear the room. Such a miscue mightbe fatal to his plans - if he has any beyond giving Holmes ahard time.

The best plan, no matter how meticulous, always has a flaw.The key, my dear Watson, is to find that flaw and exploit it.

Moriarty's location may not be known at present, but withHolmes out cold we can deduce that wherever he's going itwill be slowly - unless the prof has porters."BF

#13 [-]As I recall it is bound and gagged, not bond and gagged.

Holmes is already affected?Yes he was and is. Very affective, as in assuming manyaffectations.No matter the how of creation there is indeed a flaw, hencethe call for back-up plans, the flaw solver.

"So, Moriarty is aware of Trek...is he also aware ofMacGyver?At least two Next gen tales featured a somewhat reformedMoriarty, and egomaniacs like James or even Charles aredrawn to all of their depictions, most likely to complain howwrong they got it. MacGyver or Colonel O'Neil will not drawsuch attention for their heroic actions."W


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Speaking of porters....

"Never let a waiter escape. What I'm urging on you here ismanners: don't ignore the poor bastard while you hold himprisoner. Remember, he can do that to you later bywithholding the bill". - Larry Niven

Try walking out and the wait might be over.

#14 [-]"Bound and gagged, yes. However, when referring to therestraints holding one, as a unit, the word is bonds: "I AMbound, as you know, and my bonds prevent my attending tothat little detail".

I don't always pick on things like that, but I nearly alwaysnotice them, and sometimes my brain kicks up such a fussthat it's easier to go ahead and mention it than to endure theranting. Holmes would likely understand."BF

#15 [-]I appreciate the 'correction', the interactive aspect is provingto be a very effective ruse:) indeed. Thanks. BF

Holmes would, or does when not comatoast:)

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#16 [-]"Comatoast? I think I'm being baited here, but sure: I'll havea slice, with mutter butter and thought jam."BF

#17 [-]just beware the escape goat.

James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon two punny writers, onestill, the other real, but it seems he disappeared.Does j.d. Salinger live? Yes, we think well or unknown.Salinger's daughter Margaret's brother Matt discredited hermemoir in a letter to The New York Observer. He disparagedhis sister's "Gothic tales of our supposed childhood" andstated: "I can't say with any authority that she is consciously

making anything up. I just know that I grew up in a verydifferent house, with two very different parents from thosemy sister describes."

Yes, yet another string of code, not 0 or 1, neither, either nor;a 1 and 0, digitally mastered in parallel quantum computer.Strange times indeed. Is that your experience too? One mayonly wish it so perhaps. How does the other half live? Well?One has hopes of reconciliation, or some more butter and

jam.

It's History night. Pynchon to look forward to. Anotherdisappointing lose is taken too hard or just not easy, take it.And is it also true from a Socratic pov, that Greek gods diedin obscurity or from being so obscure. It may be revealed


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that not only they can be blamed, in point of fact(?) not at all.The lack of cogent follow-up questions for reasonableclarification, simply did not come, based on impatience Iguess and foolish know-it-alls, at least wannabes.

Good night, sweet princesses and princes of New Englandand all points before and beyond.

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Glen I've read the first 2 parts but my feeble brain is runningamok at this late hour. Will read some more tomorrow.Regards,M

#18 [-]my feeble brain is running amok- Between here and allpoints southeasterly, hope that Moriarty doesn't stray too far

west on the way to the Caymans.at this late hour. - meanwhile a few clicks in either directionits later than one can think and too soon to worry muchabout it.Will read some more tomorrow. - well slow boats to Chinamight be faster. I wonder how Watson is faring?

Horseshoes, hand grenades and claymores. #20 [-]image

Where Holmes and Moriarty pass the time on a slow boat tothe ain't it Grand Caymans and discuss some science, thatthey might not fully understand.Duh.


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From:"any axiomatic formulation contains undecidablepropositions."To:

"All axiomatic formulations of number theory containundecidable propositions."


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for exceptions that prove a rule.(Can they be added to?

While someone doesn't want to live another life,

they might do so anyway, or so similar that the quibbling ismooted, and the mutables live on and on....Eternally....wtfc?

Meanwhile...are hand grenades and claymores similar?Yes.Are they the same?No.Yes, one can substitute for the other in a pinch, act in its

place, get left behind, enlarged (to even ridiculous andabsurd dimensions) and dismantled and put back where itwas found, or even just put to different action. Decide, oranother may, sometimes will decide without even asking,"Am I wrong?"

"I find it a little disjointed. Result of the format I suppose."W

"Was just looking over the continuing comments and also theinsertion of chapters as comments.I did track down the photograph of Viktor Yevgrafov onAnswers. Com and the text written there. It made forinteresting reading and also the biography on Wikipedia."So


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Only a little?"I find it a little disjointed." - With Watson and Holmesseparated, each more concerned with the other than

themselves, one unconscious at sea and the other facedwith disposing of a face, as well as a body, what happensnext determines the entire fate of ....of....of....of whathappens next.

"Result of the format I suppose." -Of course we are seekingdeduction, if it arrives through supposition, then PhiladelphiaFreedom may ring again. A works in progress that begs

more questions than answers, with interjecting digressions,where is the movement to resolution?

Glen I've read it all the way through... it's intriguing but I'm ata loss most of the time. 'll keep reading though and hoping I

see the light.Regards,M

"Was just looking over the continuing comments" -suggestion of a review....edification of clues

"insertion of chapters as comments." - Moriarty is describedas a brilliant mathematician, rejected for his failure to tow aimaginary line."I did track down the photograph " - Following clues, thatlead where?" the text written there." - action once removed is forgotten.


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How did they pass the time?"interesting reading the biography" - It's never about the

journey, always about the people adventuring, the journeyonly variates, the people change and are changed.

"This is an intriguing concept so far, and I remain curious tosee where it go. In the meantime, I'll contribute a little-knownepisode from Holmes' undocumented adventures withWatson:

We join famed detective Sherlock Holmes and his sidekickDoctor Watson as they examine a murder scene:"I say, Holmes, the fellow must be deucedly clever. There'snot a single clue to be found.""To the contrary, my good Watson, examine this ceramic footand tell me what you see.""Why, it has lines on it, like roads, and markings for trees,hills and houses. Gad, Holmes! It's a map!"

"Precisely so, Watson. The intent is that we should followthese markings like a treasure map. We are presently at thebase of the heel and, if I am not very much mistaken, ourdestination is marked out on the top of the big toe. We havebeen presented with a challenge.""By Gadfrey, Holmes, you don't mean it!""Yes, Watson, the killer is playing with us, and a foot is thegame. Come, we must waste no time!"

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#26 [-]The plays the thing #27 [-]Hamlet:

I'll have groundsMore relative than this-Shakespeare QuotesWherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

When exclaiming "The plays the thing!" we're seldom askedthe embarrassing question of what "thing" we mean, exactly.Prince Hamlet, however, has something specific in mind. To

elicit visible proof of what a rather visible ghost has told him-that his uncle, King Claudius, murdered his father, the formerking-the prince turns playwright. His task: to sneak a fewtelling lines into a play about regicide his uncle will bewatching at court, and to wait for Claudius to flinch. IfHamlet's plan works, he'll be convinced of both the ghost'sveracity and the king's guilt and will (theoretically) feel betterabout paying his uncle back in kind.

The plot is intricate and bizarre, but Hamlet is relying ongood, solid Renaissance psychology. Playwrights oftenclaimed that their work encouraged virtue in upstandingcitizens and caught the conscience of malefactors. About tenyears after the first production of Hamlet, playwright ThomasHeywood edified the reading public with this real-life tale:During the performance of a particularly gruesome tragedy,in which the actors staged the murder of a man by driving anail through his temple, a woman in the audience rose updistractedly. She "oft sighed out these words: Oh myhusband, my husband!" The woman subsequently confessedall and was burned for having murdered her spouse with "agreat nail" through "the brain pan."


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Pity the poor poet, not

a never starving artist, just might not be trying

or smarter than the typical bear

"Gee Yogi, the ranger won't like it."

...and maybe some rangers will.

Sneaky purview: Where a sense of propriety runs a gamut.

Loyalty to Holmes is sorely tested and testy tempers flare.Does Adrian Monk ring your bell?

Hadrian:

"Ah fleeting Spirit! wand'ring Fire,That long hast warm'd my tender Breast,Must thou no more this Frame inspire?"

#28 [-]Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!You cataracts and hurricanoes, spoutTill you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once,


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That make ingrateful man!Lear

Ka-Bong!!

El Kabong

#29 [-]"When this eternal substance of my soulDid live imprison'd in my wanton flesh:Each in their function serving other's need,I was a courtier in the Spanish Court.

My name was Don Andrea, my descentThough not ignoble, yet inferior farTo gracious fortunes of my tender youth:For there in prime and pride of all my years,By Duteous service and deserving love,In secret I possess'd a worthy dame,Which hight sweet Bel-imperia by name.But in the harvest of my summer joys,

Death's winter nipp'd the blossoms of my bliss,Forcing divorce betwixt my love and me.For in the late conflict with Portingale,My valour drew me into danger's mouth,Till life to death made passage through my wounds.When I was slain, my soul descended straight,To pass the flowing stream of Acheron:But churlish Charon, only boatman there,Said that my rites of burial not perform'd,I might not sit amongst his passengers.Ere Sol had slept three nights in Thetis' lapAnd slak'd his smoking chariot in her flood:By Don Horatio our Knight Marshal's son,My funerals and obsequies were done.Then was the ferryman of hell content


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To pass me over to the slimy strond,That leads to fell Avernus' ugly waves:There pleasing Cerberus with honey'd speech,I pass'd the perils of the foremost porch.

Not far from hence amidst ten thousand souls,Sat Minos, Aeacus, and Rhadamanth,To whom no sooner 'gan I make approach,To crave a passport for my wand'ring ghost:But Minos in graven leaves of lottery,Drew forth the manner of my life and death.'This knight' (quoth he) 'both liv'd and died in love,And for his love tried fortune of the wars,

And by war's fortune lost both love and life.''Why then,' said Aeacus, convey him hence,To walk with lovers in our fields of love:And spend the course of everlasting time,Under green myrtle trees and cypress shades.''No, no,' said Rhadamanth, 'It were not well,With loving souls to place a martialist:He died in war, and must to martial fields:

Where wounded Hector lives in lasting pain,And Achilles' myrmidons do scour the plain.'Then Minos mildest censor of the three,Made this device to end the difference.'Send him' (quoth he) 'to our infernal King:To doom him as best seems his majesty.'To this effect my passport straight was drawn.In keeping on my way to Pluto's court,Through dreadful shades of ever-glooming night,I saw more sights than thousand tongues can tell,Or pens can write, or mortal hearts can think.Three ways there were, that on the right hand sideWas ready way unto the foresaid fields,Where lovers live, and bloody martialists,But either sort contain'd within his bounds.


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The left hand path declining fearfully,Was ready downfall to the deepest hell,Where bloody furies shake their whips of steel,And poor Ixion turns an endless wheel.

Where userers are chok'd with melting gold,And wantons are embrac'd with ugly snakes:And murderers groan with never killing wounds,And perjur'd wights scalded in boiling lead,And all foul sins with torments overwhelm'd.'Twixt these two ways, I trod the middle path,Which brought me to the fair Elysian green.In midst whereof there stands a stately tower,

The walls of brass, the gates of adamant.Here finding Pluto with his Proserpine,I show'd my passport humbled on my knee.Whereat fair Proserpine began to smile,And begg'd that only she might give my doom.Pluto was pleas'd, and seal'd it with a kiss.Forthwith (Revenge) she rounded thee in th' ear,And bad thee lead me through the Gates of Horn,

Where dreams have passage in the silent night.No sooner had she spoke but we were here,I wot not how, in twinkling of an eye."

Thomas Kyd,The Ghost speech from "The Spanish Tragedy".

#30 [-]Living with Accelerating Change

John Kao notes that the power of a network rises as afunction of the "diversity, curiosity, and commitment" of itsparticipants. We seek to maximize diversity, to fan the flamesof intellectual curiosity, and to report examples of and


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opportunities for intellectual and personal commitment.Together, we can significantly improve the multidisciplinaryanalysis, understanding, and management of the continuallysurprising phenomenon of accelerating change.

The various Babel languages relate and obfuscate, I wastold say what you mean and mean what you say, all thewhile not 'being' mean, to task one is a rigorous undertakingespecially when not tasking oneself as well. A sonorous lull,speaks of days gone by at a different pace where instantmessages took months, perhaps years, the originator of cliff-hangers and serials would drive in and out consciousness.

Vacation time for many. Enjoy the summer like never or asonce before. Please.

Thanks for adding your energy and insight to the community!

no white cloudsin my blue skies

jumping on the ether trainin the precipice

no rage lividwith blank desire

school's outand the song's in tune

devoted memories fadejust as they're meant to do

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06/12/07

#31 [-]"Excuse me a moment, Boys.", Nora Charles said as she setdown a martini.That's the phone.""Hello?Shirley?Shirley!!!!Oh, that's wonderful, Shirley!

Who?When?It was a November wedding?How delightful!Smoked Scottish salmon and caviar and champagne?Where?In Kent?Nicky and I spent some time there just last year and The

Red Lion had the most wonderful accommodations.What, you stayed there too?Isn't the toad in the hole they serve just perfect?I could have eaten the Shepherd's Pie every day of our stay.Little Nicky set fire to a haystack one day.What?You both got drunk one night and what's that about a tinwhistle?Oh!There were some country folk and there was dancing andsinging?You're going where?Sumatra?A whirlwind tour?Oh, yes, I understand now.


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Oh, Shirley, I'm so happy for you and all of our best.So unexpected and so delicious.What's that?The connection dropped out for a minute.

Oh, you're calling ship to shore?Yes, I'll certainly tell Nick.Do have a wonderful time, Shirley."

The Saint said, "Nice fedora by the way.""I think better with it on."Who's Nora speaking to?"Sounds like one of her girlfriends, Simon.", came the answer

as donuts of smoke rings hovered.Nora's got them all over."

"Good looking as Nora?"

"All of Nora's friends are very good looking and quite welloff."

"I'm in between at the time.""You're always in between, Simon."

"Sugar, who was that?", Nick Charles asked.

"That was Sherlock."

"What!!"

"Now, Darling, you've upset your drink.Let me freshen it up."

"Where's that Scotch?!


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"No water, Simon?"

"No!!!!"

"What the ....?!"

"They met at Oxford and Shirley said that he just couldn'tdrag his eyes away from what he called an Amazon.She refused him four times and she doesn't go by Holmes.She's Jewish and is working on a book comparing Jewishand Christian beliefs.Shirley was a little toodled on the phone."

"Where's the gin and tonic?!"

"On the sideboard, Darling."

"I'm out of Scotch, not a drop left.Where's the Whiskey?!"

"Kentucky Bourbon will have to do, Simon.Nicky?Fix me a Brandy Alexander while you're up.Shirley did have a message for you.I barely heard him because the connection was going in andout.He said that there was a pattern forming with the secondwife.He said to take a look at Jekyll and Hyde.He appears to think that there was some connection to befound there in the behaviour of our suspect."So

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"ah i was just watching Basil Rathbone in Dressed To Kill lastnight - one of the best of his Holmes films!"W

#33 [-]Do we destroy cliches in an effort to remember them?

#34 [-]"Cliches are very useful tools, Gawell.They may be tired and worn out phrases.They appear to be common enough but yet they do have a

use

If I were living in The Catskill Mountains and when thundersounds, I would say to my companion, "Henry Hudson isplaying nine pins."

If I were living in the mountains of the South and a suddenrain came hard in a great down pour, I would say, "That sure

was a frog choker, wasn't it?" after a gully washer hadhappened.

Cliches are a way to communicate on an intimate levelbecause they indicate commonalty among a close knitsociety.Cliches are so disdained and yet they needn't be.Cliches are a part of human speech."So

#35 [-]Cliches are an endless source for points of departure, somemay come and go with fashion, even lying fallow for a timeand making intermittent comebacks, some unveiling in a thin


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or not disguise.Particularly like the exception that proves a rule.

Fun.

#36 [-]"I've read about half of it and will come back for moreare you sure your name isn't actually Moriarty?hasn't he got out of that shuttle craft yet...hmm, maybe he should meet up with Mark Twainof course you are undoubedly aware that at no point did

Holmes ever actually say "The Game is Afoot!"W

well acd wrote something.moi? arty?in a way it's drifting, shuttling, that's what they do do, maybe.we should all be so lucky to meet a twain and mark it as a

time to get off a shuttle and walk away.

imageSir Arthur Conan Doyle had Sherlock Holmes quotevarious renowned personalities in many of his stories. Forexample, Sherlock Holmes quotes Edgar Allen Poe in twostories.imageEdgar Allan PoeUSA - Scott #986

imageIn A Study in Scarlet, Holmes' companion, Dr.Watson, says, "it is simple when you explain. You remind meof Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that suchindividuals did exist out of stories." Poe is considered to bethe father of the modem detective story.


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imageHolmes says in The Case of the Resident Patient,"you remember that some time ago when I read to you thatpassage in one of Poe's sketches in which a close reasoner

follows the unspoken thoughts of his companion, you wereinclined to treat the matter as a tour de force of the author."Later during investigation of The Cardboard Box, Holmesrepeated the same thought to Dr. Watson.imageSherlock Holmes is familiar with the writings of WilliamShakespeare despite Dr. Watson's assessment that Holmesknowledge of literature is "Nil" (A Study in Scarlet). However,Holmes quoted Shakespeare from 14 of his plays in various

cases. One of the most well known expressions [from "TheAdventure of the Abbey Grange"] is "Come, Watson, come.The game is afoot." This comes from Henry V, act III, scene1.

imageHolmes has a habit of rephrasing severalShakespeare quotes such as, "Thrice is he armed that hathhis quarrel just" (Henry IV, part 2 act III, scene 2). In the

disappearance of Lady Carfax, Holmes states: "Thrice is hearmed who hath his quarrel just."

Tension filled the musty room as Professor Moriarty threw sixdecks of playing cards onto the large oak table. "Sit!" heordered. "I'm in a sporting mood. We'll play six hands ofbridge, and if you go plus on each one, I'll set you free."

imageSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson had beeninvestigating the theft of the Crown Emerald and were seizedby Moriarty's henchmen. They were now being held captivein the basement of the arch villain's home. "And if we don't?"Holmes inquired.


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"That's easy, Mr. Holmes. You and your bumbling doctorfriend will be my guests for lunch. I've just installed a brandnew piranha tank, and the August heat is making the little

buggers voracious. Anyone for bridge?"

"Hardly seems fair," Watson grumbled. "I've only playedbridge a few times. Can't we make it gin rummy?"

image"Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot," instructedHolmes, then he whispered in his friend's ear, "Just bid onlyminor suits, or double with a good hand. Try to make

yourself dummy - that shouldn't be too hard."

"Then, let's begin." Moriarty grinned. "The cards havealready been shuffled, so I'll deal each hand to save time.Colonel Moran? I know you're not a bridge player, but sitdown as my partner and just pass. Holmes? You sit here onmy right." As fate (or the Professor's evil design) would haveit, Holmes became declarer on each deal.

Funny to be arch sometimes.

"you actually got me re-reading A Study in Scarlet last night -Holmes doesn't seem to think much of either Poe or hisDupin"W


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I suppose Holmes stood as an alter-ego of sorts for Conanbut really, Holmes stands alone as literature's greatestdetective.

according to my Mary and others, Jessica Fletcher is theWorld's Most Beloved detector.Don't know if Adrian Monk is known to you, but he isrecognized by some affectionately as the 'DefectiveDetective'.

Monk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5Be5a86uA

theme by Randy Newman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOUfc41NYPc&feature=fvw

If we are not born to be wild, why, oh why, are we born as a

child.We make it happenexploding all over the place.A true nature childe, (in literature), an archaic term referringto a youth of noble birth or a youth in training to be a knight.never will die.What may only be a minute,sometimes seems as a daze,years rolling into tears without fears,even the bogeyman cares.Racing with the Wind,finding every day an adventure.


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Poe, considered by some to be the Father of the detectivestory, might have sought Sherlock's help in keeping somedemons away.

#41 [-]Why no one is listening with someone talking at...

#42 [-]image

Confusion, Hypocrisy & Fear Are Among the LeadingCauses(otherwise while not necessarily smooth sailing, co-operationof talking with, promotes better listening and improvedtalking,

some hiccups, stutter steps, bleed through around the edgesword gets done, best hope for sailing into a future sunset, isworking with what is present, front and center.

... so once some dust settles and a 'good thing' gets shookdownand set flying straight, a little fun can be had, at no one inparticularsexpense, let the slings and arrows loosed upon a stagy backlot ofcelluloid dreams and passion play finesse.

onward goes a show...it's not Bert and Ernieor tom and Jerry


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definitely not porgy and Bessneither nick and Norawouldn't catch these two together in a room all aloneHolmes and Moriarty

James.Some of your replies make no sense to me.You have asked me what i am hearing,from what I say says

nothing, I call that silence.dense, thanks,for shallow I don't play games in debates of any sort,try itsomething it's fun must be a knew concept to uhere are dangers brain gets expanded and pushes upagainst walls walls break I don't believe u you must bekidding kidsounds like you know too much, try getting a clue better thanknowing ever was after and before knowing changes

try to keep up keep that's all that is ever done keeping upyou fall behind or get so far ahead nothing is set up

Let me explain here James (the original subject).

Presentation is substantial and circumstantial.I think I see your stance now...but try to drop the poetry longenough for me to be sure I understand.You want to know

"what about the spoken word as Art?"whatever you decide it is I'm sure we all will go along with itcan you wait for me to be the last otherwise quit now andgive up


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Is that correct?why ask you don't really seem to care.

So you Can say we are both artists, but you can not say thatpoetry is art ,poetry is art, you're write I can only right it. Say nothing .. artis spoken right again

or even that painting is art for that matter because neither ofthem are.There is only Art, and only Art is Art. You can also think of itas in terms of Plato's A=A.I am art. I am poetry.

does this help at all?sending money would help, doesn't hurt though . thanks.

It's all pretty boring though what you wroteme too I suppose.

My concern is that we do not abandon fossil fuel or uranium

But make no mistake reversal of cause and effect is a crime.

one way to insure something never stops occurring is tomake it a crime.

What person has vision of something that is not wanted,maybe someone who wants to walk a bit on the wild side toa place that has gone to seed a bit. Every person who has


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vision looks to see what they want to see. Seeing the visionis not what makes it happen, cause some can see how thevision comes to be as well, seeing the actions of whatcauses the result. Others see parts, they get together and

build tomorrow today, piece by piece,little by little.The only things that can bring about a Singularity, are a fewsimple ideas about honor, justice and freedom, if you havetrouble filling in some of the other ideas, perhaps aSingularity is not for you, but please check out the wild side,very entertaining, mature audiences suggested. oh hardwork and trouble aren't my only friends.love helps

a lot

until you actually love someone or somethingnothing really matters as much as it does after

I have seen the future , live it today in the most importantwayshonor justice liberty follows.

Rpondez s'il vous plat

Confirming.

Yes, I took 2 years of French and can't remember any of it.

I recommend 2 years in France, you'll remember the hi-lights,plus you'll have pictures as reminders.You still remember Ireland don't you?


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Ireland??

aka Eire, named after the Goddess riu,means "fat land" or "land of abundance".

Isn't that an island?

Not always.A long cold climatic spell prevailed until the end of the lastglacial periodabout 9,000 years ago,and most of Ireland was covered with ice.

Sea-levels were lower then, and Ireland, as with itsneighbour Britain,rather than being islands,were part of a greater continental Europe.

That explains all those British looking rocks I saw.

Ah, you do recall.

Did they have stiff upper lips?Were they white and pasty?

Actually, they did have white on them - could have beenpaste.It was hard to see exactly where the lips were located.

Stiff upper lips are located between a nose and a chin,a nose below eyes,a chin above throat,quite often book ended by ears,overlapping teethand surrounded by cheeks,sometimes shrouded with hair,and almost always accompanied with a lower pair,


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probably not stiff,cause I have never heard of stiff lower lips.

surrender now and it will be easiersurrender later and will be hardertake it easy, but take it.

#43 [-]

"there is a great series of books (novels) about theadventures of Conan Doyle in his days as apprentice to Dr.Bell upon whom Holmes was based. Cant remember theauthors name but quite a few have been serialized on TVand I have them on video."W

Tips of an iceberg reveal a mammoth undertaking #44 [-]

The Adventures of Conan Doyle: The Life of the Creator ofSherlock Holmesby Charles Higham

LibraryThing recommendations

1. Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook by Peter Haining2. The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by John Dickson Carr3. The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana by Jack Tracy4. Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel

Stashower5. Naked Is the Best Disguise: The Death and

Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes by Samuel Rosenberg


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6. Pray always: Prayers and Instructions by Rev. AlphonseSausen

7. Sherlock Holmes in portrait and profile by Walter

Klinefelter8. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan

Doyle9. His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

10. Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon

Imitation may not always be the sincerest form of flattery, but

fans a truly growth industry to keep spirits alive by one Sirsinspiration.And all those human flaws revealed to say, those cases weresolved anyway, as feats of clay turned to stony everlastingmonuments.

#45 [-]

image

from Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook by Peter Haining

#46 [-]?indeed there are many books about him by numerousauthorsi have one called the 9% Solution in which Watson tricks himinto going to Vienna, supposedly on the trail of Moriarty butin reality to consult Freud about his cocaine addiction!"W


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#47 [-]I read and saw that movie, Nicol Williamson (Holmes), AlanArkin(Freud) and Robert Duvall(Watson).

Laurence Olivier played the brief role of Professor Moriarty.

My favorite Freud was Mongomery Clift, but Arkin is alwaysgood in all he does.

A new Holmes is on the way:Robert Downey Jr. brings the legendary detective to life ashe has never been portrayed before. Jude Law stars as

Holmes' trusted colleague, Watson, a doctor and warveteran who is a formidable ally for Sherlock Holmes. RachelMcAdams stars as Irene Adler, the only woman ever to havebested Holmes and who has maintained a tempestuousrelationship with the detective. Mark Strong stars as theirmysterious new adversary, Blackwood. Kelly Reilly will playWatson's love interest, Mary.

Coming Christmas, 2009.Looks like a rather younger Holmes than usually seen.

#48 [-]"Well, my library yielded up the facsimiles of The Strand andwith all of the illustrations by Paget.I really liked Basil Rathbone for he was perfect for the rolewith his thin features. In real life and working the the Britishgovernment he often went about disguised.He did get type cast.I also like Jeremy Brett. He took over the role with someproduction company and his features were also suitable. Hewas a grand actor and also ended up as being type cast in


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the role of Sherlock.It was a Granada production and I think that they did fallsscene at the beginning.Then there was the seven percent solution that concerned

something that is not family orientedDoyle got tired of writing Holmes and sure there'sinformation that Holmes is based on his old teacher. SidneyPaget based his drawings of Holmes on his own brother'sappearance.Look, The Strand thought that were hiring Sidney's brother todo the drawings. The guy was pretty famous but somehowthere was a mess up and Sidney got the deal instead.

Without Sidney the stories would have been fine enough butSidney's illustrations, inserted, gave people characters thatthey could connect to.They had a visual image and a little sub title underneath.The one person to ever portray Moriarty as Sidney drew himin the original is that Russian actor that you found, copiedand pasted a picture.Tell me, have you ever read "The Moor"?

It's written by a lady. In it Holmes gets married to a muchyounger woman and they go back to the hound of theBaskervilles.It's quite good, especially about the little hedgehog part. Thehedgehog is a clue."So

How will it end? #50 [-]

Attitude Adoption

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It's conceivable that consciousness will survive, perhaps in

the form of a disembodied digital intelligence. If so, thensomeone may still be around to note that the universe, onceablaze with the light of uncountable stars, has become anunimaginably vast, cold, profound dark." - MICHAEL D.LEMONICK

Mill and the tragic side of progress -

All the grand sources, in short, of human suffering are in agreat degree, many of them almost entirely, conquerable byhuman care and effort; and though their removal isgrievously slow- though a long succession of generations willperish in the breach before the conquest is completed, andthis world becomes all that, if will and knowledge were notwanting, it might easily be made- yet every mind sufficientlyintelligent and generous to bear a part, however small and

unconspicuous, in the endeavour, will draw a nobleenjoyment from the contest itself, which he would not for anybribe in the form of selfish indulgence consent to be without.

Sherlock Holmes' attitude: once you have eliminated theimpossible, whatever is left, no matter how improbable, hasgot to be true.

Porgy: He said what?

Bess: Nothing is impossible.

Porgy: Are you sure?


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Bess: I know what I heard.

Porgy: Tell me again what he said.

Bess: He said it was his job to eliminate the impossible.

Porgy: Was this a paying job?

Bess: He never said, he was well dressed, though he didn'tlook all that healthy to me, all white and pasty and a badcough too.

Porgy: Didn't you say he was always with a Doctor?

Bess: I think I said often.

Porgy: But every time you saw him, the Doctor was with himthat sounds more than often.

Bess: They were friendly, but I don't think they were thatfriendly. He said they were colleagues.

Porgy: College guys huh. How old were these men?

Bess: Old enough to know better than to go around tellingtheir ages.

Porgy: I seem to recall you saying something about someprofessor

Bess: I ain't rightly sure it was professor or confessor.

Porgy: Don't tell me that these guys are mixed up withPreacher Joe.


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Bess: Oh heavens no! Preacher Joe wouldn't give thesemen the time of day.

Porgy: Well, I ain't one to give ole PJ the sense to evenknow the time of day.

Bess: Now Porgy don't go putting the Preacher down likethat.

Porgy: I know, I know. Lord forgives me. I did see him get outthe rain that one time; of course it was probably that lightning

that put the fear in him.

Bess: Oh that reminds me of something them fellas told me.

Porgy: What's that?

Bess: The improbable has got to be true.

Porgy: Got to?Bess: Got to.

Porgy: Well, I got to too.

Bess: Got to what Porgy?

Porgy: Got to get go' in I reckon.

Bess: Yes. I reckon you do, seeing that you're late already.

Porgy: Bess honey I was born late, you done know that'strue too.


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Bess: Bless you my man, at least you weren't too late.

Porgy: You think we'll be seeing them folks again?

Bess: Never you mind, get along now and you bring me backsomething special.

Porgy: I do my best, I dos my best.

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