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marianne.macdonald@lineone.net wrote:
> All that I meant is that both were sometime
addicts
> to substances which
> were not themselves illegal at the time; that to
get
> twitchy about
> Holmes's cocaine is no more reasonable in
a
> historical context than to be
> shocked by Scudder's alcohol.
I can't argue with that.
> the invention of the tortured, ethical
intellectual,
> Holmes, is something
> special which he brought in to that mix. All
right,
> now jump on me....
Well, if you insist...Edgar Allan Poe invented the--if not
tortured then at least eccentric--ethical intellectual C.
Auguste Dupin something like forty years before Doyle
invented Holmes. I am not by any means trying to slight Conan
Doyle's contribution to detective lit, but Holmes has always
seemed to me obviously derived from Dupin.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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