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- From: clavazzi@nyx.cs.du.edu (The_Doge)
- Subject: Re: Copper Beeches
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.151149.18160@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov18.002426.21722@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Nov18.131539.29426@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <Bxz1yu.HBw@access.digex.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:11:49 GMT
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- In article <Bxz1yu.HBw@access.digex.com> dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.131539.29426@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ggg9y@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Garth G. Groff) writes:
- >>
- >>And yes, he did recycle some plot devices (like the
- >>bust by the window).
- >
- >More than just plot devices. I recall some scenes and text reproduced
- >in some stories. Especially scenes at the start of the stories, with
- >Holmes and Watson sitting around together.
- >
- >I believe, but would not swear to it, that one of these was the replay
- >of the August Dupin bit of telling a person what he is thinking after
- >observing him for five minutes or so.
-
- That's correct. The sequence appears in "The Resident Patient" and
- then again, verbatim, in "The Cardboard Box". There are some other recurring
- themes as well; notice how many of the most admirable women in the Canon are
- named "Violet", for example!
-
- The_Doge
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