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Awesome realization
Monday, 9 July 2012 09:39 pmI've been falling down a Sherlock (BBC TV version) rabbithole. It's been a lot of fun. One of the reasons is that the Sherlock Holmes canon is entirely in the public domain, and writers have been playing with it for more than 100 years.
The realization? I could spend the rest of my life reading nothing but Holmes pastiches, fanfiction, essays, scholarly meditations, as well as watching scores of movies (in English, Russian, and probably a dozen other tongues) and I still wouldn't read them all.
Completism is dead!
Also reading The Ticking is the Bomb by Nick Flynn. Beautiful writing, tragic meditations on parental failings, personal failings, torture and samsara.
The realization? I could spend the rest of my life reading nothing but Holmes pastiches, fanfiction, essays, scholarly meditations, as well as watching scores of movies (in English, Russian, and probably a dozen other tongues) and I still wouldn't read them all.
Completism is dead!
Also reading The Ticking is the Bomb by Nick Flynn. Beautiful writing, tragic meditations on parental failings, personal failings, torture and samsara.