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“You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
“A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.”
“You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-08), “The Red-Headed League,” The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doyle #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #watson #redheadedleague #argument #coincidence #debate #doubt #facts #happenstance #imagination #oddness #reallife #reality #strangeness #unexpectedness #weirdness
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“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hopes seem hardly worth having, just mount a #bicycle and go for a good spin down the road, without thought of anything but the ride you are taking." - #ArthurConanDoyle
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Rival do Brasil na Copa, Escócia amarga efeitos do Brexit, ao qual foi contra
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@kathimmel/116789951870295664
I always thought that The Babington Leek was one of Doyle's better Holmes stories.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@kathimmel/116789951870295664
I always thought that The Babington Leek was one of Doyle's better Holmes stories.
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#literatura #literaturainglesa #novela
Autor: #ArthurConanDoyle ✒️📖✒️
Libro: "La compañía blanca"
«El hombre débil se vuelve fuerte cuando no tiene nada, porque sólo entonces puede sentir la locura de la desesperación.»
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#literatura #literaturainglesa #novela
Autor: #ArthurConanDoyle ✒️📖✒️
Libro: "La compañía blanca"
«El hombre débil se vuelve fuerte cuando no tiene nada, porque sólo entonces puede sentir la locura de la desesperación.»
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
“It is simplicity itself,” said [Holmes]; “my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey.
“As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.
I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his process of deduction. “When I hear you give your reasons,” I remarked, “the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good as yours.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1, The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlock #sherlockholmes #conclusions #deduction #evidence #logic #observation #reasoning
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SIGUE ⬇️
Con entusiasmo, encargó análisis fotográficos y consultó expertos.
Cuando algunos especialistas señalaron que las hadas parecían figuras planas de cartón, Conan Doyle rechazó las críticas.Incluso llegó a argumentar que los espíritus podían adoptar formas reconocibles para quienes los contemplaban.
Según esta interpretación, las hadas aparecían con aspecto infantil porque así las imaginaban las niñas.Convencido de su autenticidad, publicó artículos en la revista *The Strand* y posteriormente escribió un libro completo titulado *El misterio de las hadas*, donde defendía el caso ante la opinión pública.
Las fotografías se hicieron famosas en todo el mundo.
Miles de personas creyeron en ellas.
Y mientras tanto, las dos niñas observaban cómo una pequeña mentira infantil se transformaba en un fenómeno internacional imposible de detener.
Pero la historia todavía guarda otro personaje extraordinario.
Harry Houdini.
La amistad entre Conan Doyle y Houdini es una de las más curiosas del siglo XX porque ambos admiraban profundamente al otro, pero mantenían opiniones radicalmente opuestas sobre lo sobrenatural.
Houdini era el ilusionista más famoso del mundo.
Pasaba su vida creando engaños visuales imposibles sobre los escenarios.
Precisamente por eso sabía mejor que nadie hasta qué punto los sentidos pueden ser engañados.
Mientras Conan Doyle buscaba pruebas de fenómenos paranormales, Houdini dedicaba gran parte de su tiempo libre a desenmascarar médiums fraudulentos que se aprovechaban del dolor de las familias en duelo.
Cuando conoció las fotografías de Cottingley, comprendió casi inmediatamente que algo no encajaba.
Las hadas parecían figuras recortadas.
Las poses eran rígidas.
La composición resultaba artificial.
Para un hombre acostumbrado a construir ilusiones todos los días, el truco era relativamente evidente.
Houdini intentó advertir a su amigo con tacto.
No quería verlo expuesto al ridículo.
Sin embargo, Conan Doyle estaba demasiado comprometido emocionalmente con la historia para aceptar aquellas críticas.
La situación fue deteriorando la relación entre ambos.
Con el tiempo, la amistad terminó rompiéndose.
Lo más curioso es que Conan Doyle llegó a creer que Houdini poseía auténticos poderes sobrenaturales y que se negaba a reconocerlos públicamente.
Incluso sospechaba que utilizaba capacidades ocultas que él mismo no quería admitir.Houdini, que llevaba años intentando demostrar precisamente lo contrario, quedó desesperado ante semejante conclusión.
La ruptura fue inevitable.
Y así nació una de las mayores ironías de la historia cultural moderna.
El hombre que inventó a Sherlock Holmes, símbolo universal de la lógica y el pensamiento crítico, fue engañado por dos niñas armadas con tijeras, cartulina y unos simples alfileres de sombrero.
Mientras tanto, el hombre cuya profesión consistía en engañar al público sobre un escenario fue quien defendió la explicación racional.
Pasaron las décadas.
Las fotografías siguieron alimentando debates y teorías.
Finalmente, a comienzos de los años ochenta, cuando ya eran ancianas, Elsie y Frances decidieron contar la verdad.
Confirmaron que las hadas habían sido recortadas de ilustraciones infantiles, dibujadas sobre cartulina y colocadas cuidadosamente frente a la cámara.
Elsie fue especialmente sincera.
Reconoció el engaño con detalle y admitió que nunca imaginó que aquella travesura llegaría tan lejos.Sin embargo, incluso entonces permaneció una pequeña sombra de misterio.
Frances continuó afirmando que, aunque las fotografías fueran falsas, ella sí había visto hadas reales cuando era niña junto al arroyo.
Los análisis posteriores concluyeron que también la última fotografía estaba manipulada, pero Frances jamás abandonó completamente aquella creencia.
Elsie Wright murió en 1988.
Frances Griffiths falleció en 1989.
Con ellas desaparecieron las dos protagonistas del caso, pero no la fascinación que sigue despertando su historia.
Porque las hadas de Cottingley nunca trataron realmente sobre hadas.
Trataron sobre la esperanza.
Sobre la imaginación.
Sobre el deseo de encontrar belleza en un mundo que acababa de sufrir una guerra devastadora.
Y sobre una verdad incómoda que sigue siendo válida hoy: a veces las personas no creen aquello que demuestra la evidencia, sino aquello que necesitan creer.
Quizá por eso este viejo engaño continúa cautivándonos más de cien años después.
No porque las hadas existieran.
Sino porque nos recuerda hasta qué punto la frontera entre la ilusión y la realidad puede llegar a ser sorprendentemente frágil.
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#hadasdecottingley #cottingley #arthurconandoyle #harryhoudini #sherlockholmes #historia #misterio #enigmas #fotografíahistórica #espiritismo #primeraguerramundial #curiosidadeshistóricas #historiasreales #leyendas #culturapopular #historiadelafotografía #francesgriffiths #elsiewright #ecosdelpasado #misteriosdelahistoria
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SIGUE ⬇️
Con entusiasmo, encargó análisis fotográficos y consultó expertos.
Cuando algunos especialistas señalaron que las hadas parecían figuras planas de cartón, Conan Doyle rechazó las críticas.Incluso llegó a argumentar que los espíritus podían adoptar formas reconocibles para quienes los contemplaban.
Según esta interpretación, las hadas aparecían con aspecto infantil porque así las imaginaban las niñas.Convencido de su autenticidad, publicó artículos en la revista *The Strand* y posteriormente escribió un libro completo titulado *El misterio de las hadas*, donde defendía el caso ante la opinión pública.
Las fotografías se hicieron famosas en todo el mundo.
Miles de personas creyeron en ellas.
Y mientras tanto, las dos niñas observaban cómo una pequeña mentira infantil se transformaba en un fenómeno internacional imposible de detener.
Pero la historia todavía guarda otro personaje extraordinario.
Harry Houdini.
La amistad entre Conan Doyle y Houdini es una de las más curiosas del siglo XX porque ambos admiraban profundamente al otro, pero mantenían opiniones radicalmente opuestas sobre lo sobrenatural.
Houdini era el ilusionista más famoso del mundo.
Pasaba su vida creando engaños visuales imposibles sobre los escenarios.
Precisamente por eso sabía mejor que nadie hasta qué punto los sentidos pueden ser engañados.
Mientras Conan Doyle buscaba pruebas de fenómenos paranormales, Houdini dedicaba gran parte de su tiempo libre a desenmascarar médiums fraudulentos que se aprovechaban del dolor de las familias en duelo.
Cuando conoció las fotografías de Cottingley, comprendió casi inmediatamente que algo no encajaba.
Las hadas parecían figuras recortadas.
Las poses eran rígidas.
La composición resultaba artificial.
Para un hombre acostumbrado a construir ilusiones todos los días, el truco era relativamente evidente.
Houdini intentó advertir a su amigo con tacto.
No quería verlo expuesto al ridículo.
Sin embargo, Conan Doyle estaba demasiado comprometido emocionalmente con la historia para aceptar aquellas críticas.
La situación fue deteriorando la relación entre ambos.
Con el tiempo, la amistad terminó rompiéndose.
Lo más curioso es que Conan Doyle llegó a creer que Houdini poseía auténticos poderes sobrenaturales y que se negaba a reconocerlos públicamente.
Incluso sospechaba que utilizaba capacidades ocultas que él mismo no quería admitir.Houdini, que llevaba años intentando demostrar precisamente lo contrario, quedó desesperado ante semejante conclusión.
La ruptura fue inevitable.
Y así nació una de las mayores ironías de la historia cultural moderna.
El hombre que inventó a Sherlock Holmes, símbolo universal de la lógica y el pensamiento crítico, fue engañado por dos niñas armadas con tijeras, cartulina y unos simples alfileres de sombrero.
Mientras tanto, el hombre cuya profesión consistía en engañar al público sobre un escenario fue quien defendió la explicación racional.
Pasaron las décadas.
Las fotografías siguieron alimentando debates y teorías.
Finalmente, a comienzos de los años ochenta, cuando ya eran ancianas, Elsie y Frances decidieron contar la verdad.
Confirmaron que las hadas habían sido recortadas de ilustraciones infantiles, dibujadas sobre cartulina y colocadas cuidadosamente frente a la cámara.
Elsie fue especialmente sincera.
Reconoció el engaño con detalle y admitió que nunca imaginó que aquella travesura llegaría tan lejos.Sin embargo, incluso entonces permaneció una pequeña sombra de misterio.
Frances continuó afirmando que, aunque las fotografías fueran falsas, ella sí había visto hadas reales cuando era niña junto al arroyo.
Los análisis posteriores concluyeron que también la última fotografía estaba manipulada, pero Frances jamás abandonó completamente aquella creencia.
Elsie Wright murió en 1988.
Frances Griffiths falleció en 1989.
Con ellas desaparecieron las dos protagonistas del caso, pero no la fascinación que sigue despertando su historia.
Porque las hadas de Cottingley nunca trataron realmente sobre hadas.
Trataron sobre la esperanza.
Sobre la imaginación.
Sobre el deseo de encontrar belleza en un mundo que acababa de sufrir una guerra devastadora.
Y sobre una verdad incómoda que sigue siendo válida hoy: a veces las personas no creen aquello que demuestra la evidencia, sino aquello que necesitan creer.
Quizá por eso este viejo engaño continúa cautivándonos más de cien años después.
No porque las hadas existieran.
Sino porque nos recuerda hasta qué punto la frontera entre la ilusión y la realidad puede llegar a ser sorprendentemente frágil.
▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
#hadasdecottingley #cottingley #arthurconandoyle #harryhoudini #sherlockholmes #historia #misterio #enigmas #fotografíahistórica #espiritismo #primeraguerramundial #curiosidadeshistóricas #historiasreales #leyendas #culturapopular #historiadelafotografía #francesgriffiths #elsiewright #ecosdelpasado #misteriosdelahistoria
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1, The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #ireneadler #dispassion #distraction #disturbance #emotion #female #love #lovelessness #passion #reason #woman
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Bartitsu – rather than Baritsu – was a hybrid martial art that flourished in fin de siècle London. As an amateur boxer, #ArthurConanDoyle was fascinated.
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/sherlock-holmes-and-mystery-baritsu
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Bartitsu – rather than Baritsu – was a hybrid martial art that flourished in fin de siècle London. As an amateur boxer, #ArthurConanDoyle was fascinated.
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/sherlock-holmes-and-mystery-baritsu
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
You know my methods. Apply them.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 6 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #holmes #instructions #method #model #process
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116618065288768543
Happy birthday, Arthur Conan Doyle (b. 5/22/1859)!
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The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there,
And warmly debated the matter;
The Orthodox said that it came from the air,
And the Heretics said from the platter…—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Parable”
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46299/a-parable-56d22622a1ac9
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #poem #poetry #ArthurConanDoyle #skepticism
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The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there,
And warmly debated the matter;
The Orthodox said that it came from the air,
And the Heretics said from the platter…—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Parable”
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46299/a-parable-56d22622a1ac9
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #poem #poetry #ArthurConanDoyle #skepticism
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You can download a free ebook of THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR, & Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle – as well as many other works by the great man – from @gutenberg_org
15/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/294
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #horror #supernatural
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You can download a free ebook of THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR, & Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle – as well as many other works by the great man – from @gutenberg_org
15/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/294
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #horror #supernatural
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“The Captain of the Polestar” is possibly Doyle’s finest supernatural story – & owes much of its atmosphere to Doyle’s own experiences as a 20-year-old medical student, serving as ship’s surgeon on the Peterhead whaler the SS Hope
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/06/arthurconandoyle-arctic
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #whaling #arctic #ArthurConanDoyle
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“The Captain of the Polestar” is possibly Doyle’s finest supernatural story – & owes much of its atmosphere to Doyle’s own experiences as a 20-year-old medical student, serving as ship’s surgeon on the Peterhead whaler the SS Hope
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/06/arthurconandoyle-arctic
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #whaling #arctic #ArthurConanDoyle
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“The Captain of the Polestar”, by Arthur Conan Doyle
[Being an extract from the singular journal of JOHN M’ALISTER RAY, student of medicine]As a Dundee whaling ship becomes trapped in the Arctic, strange cries are heard & a figure is glimpsed on the floes…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvcA7uYtv6U
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #horror #supernatural #ArthurConanDoyle
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“The Captain of the Polestar”, by Arthur Conan Doyle
[Being an extract from the singular journal of JOHN M’ALISTER RAY, student of medicine]As a Dundee whaling ship becomes trapped in the Arctic, strange cries are heard & a figure is glimpsed on the floes…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvcA7uYtv6U
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #horror #supernatural #ArthurConanDoyle
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The 12 best Sherlock Holmes stories, according to Arthur Conan Doyle – via @literaryhub
In March 1927, Conan Doyle put together a list of his own top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, sealed it in an envelope, & left it with the editor of the Strand magazine…
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https://lithub.com/the-12-best-sherlock-holmes-stories-according-to-arthur-conan-doyle/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
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The 12 best Sherlock Holmes stories, according to Arthur Conan Doyle – via @literaryhub
In March 1927, Conan Doyle put together a list of his own top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, sealed it in an envelope, & left it with the editor of the Strand magazine…
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https://lithub.com/the-12-best-sherlock-holmes-stories-according-to-arthur-conan-doyle/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
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In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit”
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https://crimereads.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-scottish-dreyfus-affair/
#Scottish #literature #Edwardian #Glasgow #Crimewriting #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #truecrime
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In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit”
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https://crimereads.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-scottish-dreyfus-affair/
#Scottish #literature #Edwardian #Glasgow #Crimewriting #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #truecrime
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When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/leah-price/one-chapter-more
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #spiritualism
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When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/leah-price/one-chapter-more
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #spiritualism
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(Conan Doyle personally preferred Professor Challenger over Sherlock Holmes – even dressing up as the Professor for a photograph of Challenger’s Amazonian expedition)
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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #sciencefiction #scifi #ArthurConanDoyle
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(Conan Doyle personally preferred Professor Challenger over Sherlock Holmes – even dressing up as the Professor for a photograph of Challenger’s Amazonian expedition)
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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #sciencefiction #scifi #ArthurConanDoyle
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After THE LOST WORLD, Challenger’s other adventures include the novels THE POISON BELT and THE LAND OF MIST, & the short stories “The World Screamed” & “The Disintegration Machine”. Alan Brown digs deeper into Doyle’s science fiction
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https://reactormag.com/the-further-adventures-of-professor-challenger-by-arthur-conan-doyle/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #sciencefiction #scifi #ArthurConanDoyle
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After THE LOST WORLD, Challenger’s other adventures include the novels THE POISON BELT and THE LAND OF MIST, & the short stories “The World Screamed” & “The Disintegration Machine”. Alan Brown digs deeper into Doyle’s science fiction
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https://reactormag.com/the-further-adventures-of-professor-challenger-by-arthur-conan-doyle/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #sciencefiction #scifi #ArthurConanDoyle
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Doyle didn’t just write Crime fiction: Alan Brown looks at Arthur Conan Doyle’s “vain, volatile, & brilliant” Scottish adventurer-scientist-explorer-&-dinosaur-hunter, Professor George Edward Challenger…
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https://reactormag.com/dinosaurs-in-the-amazon-the-lost-world-by-arthur-conan-doyle/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #sciencefiction #scifi #dinosaurs #ArthurConanDoyle
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Doyle didn’t just write Crime fiction: Alan Brown looks at Arthur Conan Doyle’s “vain, volatile, & brilliant” Scottish adventurer-scientist-explorer-&-dinosaur-hunter, Professor George Edward Challenger…
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https://reactormag.com/dinosaurs-in-the-amazon-the-lost-world-by-arthur-conan-doyle/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #sciencefiction #scifi #dinosaurs #ArthurConanDoyle
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“Holmes’s stories […] have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, & one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett & Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie”
—Alexis Hall on Sherlock Holmes as noir icon
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https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #hardboiled #noir
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“Holmes’s stories […] have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, & one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett & Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie”
—Alexis Hall on Sherlock Holmes as noir icon
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https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #hardboiled #noir
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Curently on BBC Sounds. Harriett Gilbert is joined by internationally bestselling crime writer Denise Mina & Dr Mark Jones, co-presenter of The Doings of Doyle podcast & editor of The Sherlock Holmes Journal, to discuss Sherlock Holmes’s lasting influence on crime & detective fiction.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74s3
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
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Curently on BBC Sounds. Harriett Gilbert is joined by internationally bestselling crime writer Denise Mina & Dr Mark Jones, co-presenter of The Doings of Doyle podcast & editor of The Sherlock Holmes Journal, to discuss Sherlock Holmes’s lasting influence on crime & detective fiction.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74s3
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
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According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective
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https://crimereads.com/100-sherlock-holmes-ranked/
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According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective
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https://crimereads.com/100-sherlock-holmes-ranked/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #film #cinema #television
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Conan Doyle “scrawled lists, considering various combinations of given names and surnames…”
—Michael Sims investigates the creation of the Great Detective for @literaryhub – & discovers why today is #SherlockHolmesDay not #SherringtonHopeDay
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https://lithub.com/how-sherlock-holmes-got-his-name/
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Conan Doyle “scrawled lists, considering various combinations of given names and surnames…”
—Michael Sims investigates the creation of the Great Detective for @literaryhub – & discovers why today is #SherlockHolmesDay not #SherringtonHopeDay
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https://lithub.com/how-sherlock-holmes-got-his-name/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵
On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed crime fiction forever
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v
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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵
On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed crime fiction forever
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
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"The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?"
~ Arthur Conan Doyle, born today, 1859.
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#ArthurConanDoyle was born #OnThisDay in 1859
Bartitsu – rather than Baritsu – was a hybrid martial art that flourished in fin de siècle London. As an amateur boxer, Doyle was fascinated.
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https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/sherlock-holmes-and-mystery-baritsu
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#ArthurConanDoyle was born #OnThisDay in 1859
Bartitsu – rather than Baritsu – was a hybrid martial art that flourished in fin de siècle London. As an amateur boxer, Doyle was fascinated.
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https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/sherlock-holmes-and-mystery-baritsu
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1 [Holmes], The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1 [Holmes], The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1 [Holmes], The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/5…
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-07), “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ch. 1 [Holmes], The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/5…
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 2 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 2 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit, — destructive to the logical faculty.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
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So interesting! Thank you.
I love my "Oxford Sherlock Holmes", a 9-volume hardcover set published by OUP in 1993-1997. It's an annotated edition, with genuinely useful brief critical comments in the appendix. It seems to have been a one-off; i bought it when it came out and I don't think it has been reprinted.
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From slapping a pointless legal disclaimer on a public-domain character to fighting a CGI dinosaur, Sherlock Holmes has faced many improbable foes, but few as baffling as bad adaptations.
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https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/the-analytical-paradox-legalism-intertextuality-and-character-distortion-in-contemporary-sherlockian-apocrypha/