Always good to hear… More important, a blistering review—if it is written as a candid assertion of your principles—will strengthen existing friendships and earn you new friends whose worth surpasses those who have revealed themselves as your foes. When you are truthful, and especially when the need has arisen for you to be viciously truthful,…
Cracking the code of SHERLOCK
Yes, I’m obsessed with Sherlock. In almost all of his iterations. When my mind begins to feel bored I try to crack the mystery of the S2 finale of BBC Sherlock entitled The Reichenbach Fall. I plan to rewatch all of the episodes soon, but just for fun, I decided to enter the three “hint”…
PENGUIN ACTS OUT – Part The Fourth
Penguin has got himself into trouble this time! He had a weak point — this Fortunato — although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at…
My STRAND Contest Entry – A Letter from Stella
The very cool Tumblr kept by The Strand Bookstore posts found photos and underlined passages in the books. They recently hosted a contest to write a piece based on one of their posts. I chose a black and white photo of a young girl dancing. I did not win, but I would still like to…
PENGUIN ACTS OUT – Part the Third
One of the the wildest stories related to a Yellow Diamond — a famous gem in the native annals of India. … Partly from its peculiar colour, partly from a superstition which represented it as feeling the influence of the deity whom it adored, and growing and lessening in lustre with the waxing and…