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   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   i'd think that...  a big reason why T.S. Eliot or Orwell (?) or Nabokov   
   liked Sherlock Holmes was...   
      
                          how the text seemed peppered with   
                             allusions to classical texts....   
      
   What's a good example of this?   
      
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     'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'"   
      
      
     You may remember the old   
         Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub,   
         and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.'   
      
   There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of   
   the world."   
      
      
      
      
   Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, might be named after a   
   character from Molière's play "Le Misanthrope" ???   
      
      
      
   Jabez Wilson: The name "Jabez" comes from the Old Testament (1   
   Chronicles 4:35).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)