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   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 16/06/2024 à 09:29, HenHanna a écrit :   
   > On 6/15/2024 10:46 PM, Hibou wrote:   
   >> 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? [...]   
   >   
   >   
   > 1. SH stories are full of them.   
   >   
   > 2. T.S.Eliot used  [grimpen] (lowercase) in his famous poem   
   >   
   > 3. Joyce ..........   
   >   
   > ______________________   
   >   
   >   '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).   
      
   Well, all right, and I acknowledge that there is pleasure in recognising   
   allusions - but is there an unusual number of them in SH? In more   
   Christian days, it was common for people to be given Biblical Christian   
   names (my own first name features in the New Testament), and Biblical   
   and other phrases would routinely crop up in educated people's dialogue   
   (There but for the grace of God etc.).   
      
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