Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The Last Hound of the Baskervilles

As in "The Last of the Mohicans", or in "Mao's Last Dancer", which is a beautiful movie my daughter and I watched earlier this month.  The last chapter  :)

And an update.---My Workshop met last evening, and for that reason I had to finally get my fifth poem written.  Now I need at least five more poems in the next five weeks  :(  I think I might do a new first draft every day for the next week or so, and then spend a month revising ... mal sehen.

But now to finish this book:
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6:08 p.m.  No language reset needed today, because, having spent the last 24 hours or so working on an English poem, I'm thinking in English already.

6:09 p.m.  Okay, so it's November, so this chapter should be flashback.

6:11 p.m.  Holmes "... would never permit cases to overlap."  I have had that experience when writing---I don't manage to work on multiple poems at the same time---but not while reading.  I read best when I'm in the middle of approx. four books, preferably in four different languages.

6:14 p.m.  Holmes says:  "... I cannot guarantee that I carry all the facts in my mind."  You mean like an unreliable narrator?  ;)

6:24 p.m.  Holmes says:  "... I am inclined to think that Stapleton's career of crime has been by no means limited to this single Baskerville affair."  Maybe Conan Doyle was indeed considering a new supervillain when he wrote this in 1902.

6:33 p.m.  Done  :)  More later!

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