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- From: tvorst@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Tommy Che Vorst)
- Subject: Copper Beeches
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:54:20 GMT
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- Say what you like, but the Copper Beeches story contains one of the most
- interesting lines in the whole of the Canon. Watson has just remarked
- upon the beauty of the Hampshire countryside, leaving Holmes to remark:
- "....it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must
- look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at
- these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at
- them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their
- isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be comitted there."
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- Clearly, Holmes was right in feeling that his abilities could be a curse.
- This also sounds like it may have inspired Ann Rice in her creation of
- alienated, isolated souls in her works.
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- Tommy ( Yogi ) Dept. of English, UofM
- (the REAL UofM - nyaaaah Vid! (Minn.))
- email: tvorst@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- ....residences in Canada, France, and Holland.
- "YAAH! DEATH TO OATMEAL!"
- Remember: it's just my opinion.
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