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Saturday, October 10, 2020
Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow; The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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Introduction Opening Passages: From "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", the first tale in His Last Bow : I find it recorded in...
Friday, October 09, 2020
Devotion and Dogma
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Today is the feast of St. John Henry Newman. From his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent ( Part I, Chapter 5, Section 1 ): People urge th...
Crossroads
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Roger Penrose won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics (with two other people) for the Penrose singularity theorem. I always find it interesting...
Thursday, October 08, 2020
Scientismagoria of the Scientismists
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Maarten Boudry has a really poor discussion of scientism at the APA Blog (although part of the badness is borrowed from the paper by Hieten...
Wednesday, October 07, 2020
The Narrative Chronology of the Holmes Canon
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Since I've been reading the last of the Holmes canon, I've been looking at questions of the narrative chronology of the Holmes cases...
A Poem Draft
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Triptych I. Fire Sermon Of earth, which slides toward hell Beneath the wisdom tree, made free, we see the final victory; alas, the w...
Tuesday, October 06, 2020
The Lion's Mane (Re-Post)
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This is a lightly revised version of a post from 2019. "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" is one of the most baffling of the...
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