Subject: Re: Holmes
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 12:38:13 EST
> Actually, an adage of Sherlock Holmes (be merciful; I'm
>paraphrasing from faulty memory cells) was, "When you have eliminated
>the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
>
>I wonder what conclusion we derive when we apply that logic to room 507?
>
>--tim o'connor
>
I honestly don't know. And Buddy, obviously, has been wrestling with it.
The entire opening of S:AI, up to "Oh, this happiness is strong stuff", is
one attempt.
And I must admit one longish passage later in S:AI has always intrigued me.
I quote:
"I wholeheartedly fear that there is a type of reader who may find it
somewhat winning of me to have lived to be forty; i.e., unlike Another
Person on the page, not to have been 'selfish' enough to commit suicide and
leave my Whole Loving Family high and dry. (I said I'd finish this, but I'm
not going to make it after all. Not because I'm not a proper iron man but
because to finish it right I'd have to touch on--my God, *touch on*--the
details of his suicide, and I don't expect to be ready to do that, at the
rate I'm going, for several more years.)"
Not sure what to make of it, but it always has puzzled me.
--Bruce
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