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...Giant Rat of Sumatra is the latest disc from the Firesign Theatre. It marks a return to the group's earlier mode: the 40-minute sound drama with crooked cast and treacherous plot line. The protagonist this time is Hemlock Stones, Firesign Theatre's addition to a history of Sherlock Holmes variants. He and his Watson, Dr. Flotsom, live to 99 Bakersfield St. in London, and produce cheap detective novels...
Perhaps parapsychology's most gullible proponent was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the superrationalist detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle remains the greatest proof that intelligence and scruple cannot compete with naiveté and the desire to accept the paranormal as demonstrable fact. After the death of his son in the Great War, he turned to spiritualism for solace. This led, in time, to investigations of spirits, and eventually to little winged creatures in the bottoms of gardens. In his 1922 volume The Coming of the Fairies, Doyle reproduced photographs of a tiny goblin and elves caught by a child...
Northeastern pressed in the closing minutes of the third stanza, and at 18:20 Huskie forward Dave Sherlock tallied to make it 2-2, putting the game into overtime...
...know what was on that slip of paper burned by the Secretary of Hope in your Essay. "Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Strange Erasures" [Jan. 28]. I examined every line, parsed every sentence, even looked for clues by using the first letter in consecutive words...
...fair. Doyle would never have left us hanging in midair, slowly twisting in the wind! I'll never read Sherlock Holmes by Kanfer again...