September 2011
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHERLOCK MEME
A MEME (MEEM) is “an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.”
A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena.
Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they...
SHERLOCKISMUS: An affliction that turns an...
Exerpt from the Sherlock Holmes Social Network: “You cannot reverse the flow of the Missisippi River; you cannot reason with a crying baby; you cannot un-split the atom; you cannot put the Genie back in the bottle; AND you cannot get a dedicated Sherlockian to shut up about about Sherlock Holmes! Trust me, I know! I’ve had this strange aberration since childhood and I am convinced that there...
ARCHETYPE
1. A very typical example of a certain person or thing: “The book is a perfect archetype of the genre.”
2. An original that is frequently copied or imitated.
3. A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art or mythology.
4. (In Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universwally present in individual psyches, similar to genes...
TRADITIONAL "SHERLOCKISMUS": THE GRAND GAME
Sherlockians greatly exceed in number, and now in universal scope, the relatively small sub-set who call themselves Irregulars. (Refer back to Baker Street Irregulars).Irregulars are those who adhere to the principles espoused by Christopher Morley and his small band of intellectual ruffians. It is impossible to enumerate all of these principles. For now, it must suffice to examine the top...
THE BEACON SOCIETY
The Beacon Society is a scion (chapter) of The Baker Street Irregulars, an international organization of Sherlockians founded in 1934 by Christopher Morley. The Beacon Society serves as a link to other scion societies and provides teachers with resources to bring the magic of Sherlock Holmes to life in the classroom.
QUESTION POSED TO THE BEACON SOCIETY:
“I don’t know anything...
ENJOY DOING RESEARCH? RESEARCH CONAN DOYLE
Doyle’s stories are rich with references that may befuddle a modern world. Holmes visited the Khalifa of Khartoum. Do you know who he is? If not…submit your research. One of Watson’s “untold tales” involved a Coptic Patriarch. Don’t know what that is? Research it. Entire journals are devoted to illuminating the many details in Doyle’s “Canon.”...
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EVOLUTIONARY LEAP: SHERLOCK BBC
“Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss took nearly everything essential in the Holmes Canon and just updated the setting. Despite the blogs and cell phones, the series feels more like Sherlock Holmes than any adaptation I’ve seen.” – Alyssa Rosenberg in the Atlantic Monthly.
WHY IS SHERLOCK BBC AN EVOLUTIONARY LEAP?
Because it removes “John” and “Sherlock” from the foreignness and strangeness (and in...
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Baldwin's Adventure
A short story by Tookmyskull
Once upon a time there was a skull named Baldwin.
Baldwin once had cradled a brain whose electrical impulses bounced around inside him at a delightful rate of speed. This went on for about 40 years, until one day, the electrical impulses stopped because Baldwin’s owner died in a traffic mishap.
Baldwin expected either to be incinerated or buried in a coffin along...
