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| Re: Sherlock Holmes . . . allusions to c |
| 16 Jun 24 06:46:37 |
XPost: alt.language.latin, alt.usage.english From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid Le 16/06/2024 à 00:23, HenHanna a écrit : > > 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 the source for that? It seems an unusual reason for liking the Holmes stories - a bit like liking them for Mrs Hudson's cooking. > What's a good example of this? [...] --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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