kizolk
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Post by kizolk on Nov 11, 2024 18:58:34 GMT
Hm, not that easy to answer. All in all, I lean toward saying he is.
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 11, 2024 19:03:15 GMT
Are more than ten deaths described in all the stories involving him?
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Post by kizolk on Nov 11, 2024 19:22:58 GMT
Quite probably so yes.
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 11, 2024 19:25:42 GMT
Are all or most of those people murdered?
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Post by kizolk on Nov 11, 2024 19:33:54 GMT
Probably most.
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 11, 2024 19:35:56 GMT
Did you see this post? If it weren't for the novels, most of the answers could apply to Dr Watson, but none the Holmes stories are long enough to be novels. But I can't think of any other recurring characters. |
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Post by kizolk on Nov 11, 2024 19:40:24 GMT
I didn't :/ I have no better excuse than Etaoin's new avatar bear a chromatical resemblance to mine and I mistook her post for one of mine and ignored it...
It is Dr. Watson. Several Holmes stories are considered novels, including perhaps the most famous one, "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Nov 11, 2024 20:17:26 GMT
Sherlock Holmes is like Shakespeare for me, just more so. In that I can't remember what I have actually read, and how much I've just absorbed from general culture and quizzes.
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 11, 2024 20:39:07 GMT
While I've read almost all of Shakespeare, I'm not sure I've actually read any Sherlock Holmes. It's possible I read some of it when I was very young (that would have been in translation) and don't really remember.
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 11, 2024 20:41:42 GMT
It's also quite possible that I came across some excerpts in the original more recently, but not any entire story.
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Post by kizolk on Nov 12, 2024 4:59:38 GMT
I've read at least one story, possibly more but I can't say for sure.
The TV series I've watched a few months ago is more faithful to the original material contrary to what I thought, so I now know more about Sherlock Holmes than I did before. The only problem is that I can't tell what's canon and what's not.
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 12, 2024 18:02:04 GMT
I'm thinking of someone.
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Post by kizolk on Nov 12, 2024 18:46:29 GMT
Real?
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 12, 2024 19:26:54 GMT
No.
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Post by kizolk on Nov 12, 2024 19:36:06 GMT
From mythology?
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