tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post4925788178722453555..comments2024-03-26T18:01:57.609+00:00Comments on Inky Fool: Sherlock Holmes and ModernismM.H. Forsythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-73561688508863924842014-01-25T22:53:54.719+00:002014-01-25T22:53:54.719+00:00Absolutely love Sherlock Holmes, and very much enj...Absolutely love Sherlock Holmes, and very much enjoyed this post. Since we are also talking about T.S. Eliot - I very much enjoy his 'Prufrock' poem, which is also rather about modern man and his struggles, though it does lend itself to other interpretations.. As for Sherlock's hat deductions - at least one thing the new Sherlock would disagree with is the size of head = intellect idea. There's a great bit in BBC Sherlock with some hat deductions. <br /><br />~The Tiger's SterneKerridwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07114162167451828767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-18293603794317325092014-01-16T00:26:38.911+00:002014-01-16T00:26:38.911+00:00I'm studying Modernism at college and LOVE She...I'm studying Modernism at college and LOVE Sherlock but I had never considered it in this way - it's very interesting, and probably very true. Although in certain cases the human mind has trouble adapting to the fragmentation - I know people now who have trouble dealing with the pace of life and the strangers that consume our lives - equally there are people who are meant for this kind of lifestyle. Holmes definitely draws together the fragments; or perhaps that's not the right expression, as he does not see them as fragments to be drawn together. They are a whole that he must, and of course will, uncover. And that is why he evades fragmentation. I'm sure, then, that he definitely could've done a whole lot for Eliot. Although I do enjoy The Waste Land, so I'm pretty glad that he didn't. <br />teaandcakesandices.blogspot.co.ukAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06416997348202774623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-11417884598077008502014-01-05T20:45:39.256+00:002014-01-05T20:45:39.256+00:00I had no idea! Deducing sure is very helpful for a...I had no idea! Deducing sure is very helpful for a doctor. I remember one of my teachers at medical school telling us that with time we would do most diagnosis within the first 5 seconds the patient enter the door. alexhttp://audiobooksaddiction.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-89918696777273333882014-01-05T18:00:19.737+00:002014-01-05T18:00:19.737+00:00You make an interesting point in how Sherlock Holm...You make an interesting point in how Sherlock Holmes ties up fragments. What, then, do you make of the BBC series' fragmentation (in film techniques and such)?Tammelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09417886585239920147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-69396662748151407712014-01-03T22:23:23.443+00:002014-01-03T22:23:23.443+00:00Dear Mr James,
I found really interesting what you...Dear Mr James,<br />I found really interesting what you said. I would like to add some observations or questions, if you want...<br />1) The latest Sherlock is going viral here in Italy too, so my daughter and I saw two times the first episode of the third series. I told her about the Forsyth's sentence and she said: «Acutally, when Sherlock was tortured at the beginning it looks like... Christ!»<br />2) I remember that when I was young (now I'm 58) I often read Musil, Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Rilke... And I would say that among that plenty of fragments, to read about Sherlock and his pseudo-scientific certainties was a bit comfortable!<br />3) You are right telling «I had thought I would argue for Sherlock being a post-modern take oh hoary old stories-but she persuaded me that he hadn't changed. The word had.» So, how before this awareness you... save yourself every day that happens?<br />My best wishes.<br />Sergiosirjoe777https://www.blogger.com/profile/10928794785242283741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-14417276480196505342014-01-03T20:24:25.534+00:002014-01-03T20:24:25.534+00:00I've posted at http://recentreflection.blogspo...I've posted at http://recentreflection.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/on-sherlock-and-post-modernism.html --a little too long for a comment here. James Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12253521286404575829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-42378486138473171672014-01-03T10:22:54.495+00:002014-01-03T10:22:54.495+00:00The perspicacity of “Sherlock Holmes" is an e...The perspicacity of “Sherlock Holmes" is an enduring memorial to Dr. Joseph Bell, of the Edinburgh Medical School, whose diagnostic skills so impressed his young student Arthur Conan Doyle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-12744166262466335212014-01-02T17:47:22.652+00:002014-01-02T17:47:22.652+00:00Couldn't help but read that line as Anthony Ho...Couldn't help but read that line as Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter:<br /><br />"Sherlock Holmes is not a criiime-solver, that is inciden-talll."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14489602037704446699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-9321381197559646842014-01-01T16:33:59.875+00:002014-01-01T16:33:59.875+00:00If «Sherlock Holmes is not a crime-solver, that is...If «Sherlock Holmes is not a crime-solver, that is incidental. He is an idea. He is the Messiah who can save us all from Modernism.», then can we hope the new BBC drama «Sherlock» (i.e. the actor Cumberbatch) can save us all from all Postmodernisms? This evenings I'll wait for the newest Messiah arriving for the elect people only... :-D P.S. Sorry for my poor English that doesn't allow me to pick up from some memories of my youth reads I used to, telling about a parallel between this literature and Robert Musil...sirjoe777https://www.blogger.com/profile/10928794785242283741noreply@blogger.com