Whoa.
It seems as though New Yorker staff writer David Grann and I have the same news-item fixations. Remember my last giant squid post? Well, Grann wrote another article I read about this kiwi marine biologist dude who hunts baby giant squid. And what about that little tidbit about the leading Sherlock Holmes scholar who was found garroted? Well, Grann went and wrote an article about that, too. Right now, only a Q&A about the article is online. But it's in the most recent issue.
Oddly, this is the second time this week Sherlock Holmes has made a cameo in my daily listening/reading life. NPR's Weekend Edition ran a story about Norton's New Annotated Sherlock Holmes.
Does this mean I'm going to run out and buy the book to devour all the Holmesian goodness contained therein? Probably not. But I am fascinated by "the great game," in which Holmes scholars "adhere to the premise that Holmes and Watson were real people."
Why haven't, say, Jane Austen scholars spent more time looking for the letters of Elizabeth Bennet? And wouldn't Shelley fans just blow the lid off this whole stem cell thing if they could find Dr. Frankenstein's notes? Personally, I'm looking forward to reading the complete lectures of Jim Dixon.
Or...I could just buy the latest Thursday Next installment from Jasper Fforde. Can't believe I let that one slip by...
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