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Ineffable Twaddle “It is my business to know what other people don’t know.” The monthly publication of The Sound of the Baskervilles A Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars since March 31, 1980 Serving the Greater Puget Sound Region of Western Washington, USA Masters’ Celebraon! “I Say, Watson, That’s a Volume 36 Issue 2 Our celebraon of Holmes & Watson’s Cute Baby!” February, 2017 meeng in March 1881 is: Excerpted from New York Times, Inside this issue: Date: Saturday, March 11, 2017 December 30, 2016 Time: 1:00 p.m. May contain spoilers! Masters’ Celebraon is 1 March 11! Place: The Olive Branch Café & Tea Room If Arthur Conan Doyle were wring 2501 East D Street, Tacoma it, he might call it “The Adventure of “I Say, Watson, That’s a 1 You’ll have your choice of lunch or high tea! the Changeable Detecve.” Cute Baby” “Sherlock” arrived on BBC and PBS in Submitted by Complete details—including costs for each op‐ SOB Al Nelson on and what’s included in each opon—can 2010, a fresh and franc reinvenon be found in the enclosed flyer. of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales that New, New, New for 2017! 2 focused on the pure joy of intellect. The Olive Branch is an excellent new venue “Millennial Holmes” 2 for The SOBs, located near the Tacoma Dome, Holmes, played with a waspish glee by Submitted by with plenty of parking directly across the Benedict Cumberbatch, delighted in SOB Ann Milam solving puzzles no one else could street. Another New Member 2 Several SOB solve, and we delighted along with Members are quite him. The bromance between Holmes Sherlock Seale: 3 familiar with The and John Watson (Marn Freeman) To Be, or Not to Be? Olive Branch, hav‐ added some emoonal texture but Sherlock Holmes: 3 ing already enjoyed didn’t get in the way of the fun. The Thinking Engine the fine food, drink Then came the show’s third season A Review by and hospitality of in 2014. A lile of the air went out of SOB Charlie Cook the wring, which was disappoinng owner Terry Waller! Things to See, Buy, 4 Please be sure to return the “clip‐off” cou‐ but not too surprising—Steven Moffat Do & Know pon on the flyer—by USPS or email—by March and Mark Gass, the show’s creators, 5 3rd to reserve your spot! had set themselves a very high stand‐ Two New Books On Victoria, ard. More ominous, though, was their Queen of All She Surveyed A Word about Completing Submitted by SOB Bill Seil introducon of a girlfriend and then the “Clip-Off” Coupon: When choosing between the “Lunch Option” or the wife for Watson, Mary (Amanda Ab‐ BSI Weekend News 5 bington), who turned out to have a “High Tea Option”, please insert the number of peo- Member News & Notes 6 ple in your party choosing each of the 2 options; for hidden past as a spy. Her funcon, it example, if there are 4 in your party, 2 may want lunch, seemed, was to generate situaons 2 may want high tea: that would draw out Holmes’s protec‐ Lunch Option at $18.10 2 veness on Watson’s behalf—to hu‐ High Tea Option at $45.00 2 manize Holmes. But being inhuman, If the “Lunch Option” is your party’s preferred in a wiy and almost ballec way, had choice, insert the number of people choosing each of the 3 sandwich options: always been the best and most inter‐ esng thing about him. Sandwich selection: 2 Almond Chicken Which brings us to Season 4. It 1 Turkey Lover 1 Grilled Veggie comes aer a three‐year layoff, ex‐ If quesons develop, contact Terri H. at: (253) 460‐ cept for a Christmas special last year, 2753 or [email protected] and begins with… I Continued on Page 4 Page 2 Ineffable Twaddle The Seattle Public Library New, New, New for 2017! on Queen Anne The February 19, 2017 Regular Monthly Meeting of The Sound of the Basker- Hill is at villes will begin at 1:30 p.m. at The Seattle Public Library (Queen Anne Branch) at 400 West Garfield 400 West Garfield, Seattle (driving directions at left). If you have a favourite snack or non-alcoholic beverage you’d like to share, please Library opens at 1:00, closes feel free to bring it along!! Says program-runner SOB Margie Deck: at 5:00. Come early, and catch up with your fellow SOBs! “New Year, new president, new BBC Sherlock (finally)—the theme for 2017 ap- Getting there: pears to be New. However, one thing is constant in all this newness: The SOBs will From north- or southbound I-5, meet regularly in 2017 to discuss the sixty Sherlockian tales penned by Sir Arthur exit at Mercer Street and head Conan Doyle. west. Turn right on Queen What will be new is the chronology used to determine a discussion schedule. Anne Avenue and head up the Leaving behind what one critic called “the training-wheels” of chronology (that hill. At the 3-way stop sign at the top, turn left onto West is, the sequence used in Baring-Gould’s The Annotated Sherlock Holmes), the SOBs Galer Street. At 4th Avenue, will in 2017 approach the chronology with a different method—a sequence new to turn right. The library is one this group’s discussion calendar. (1) block north on the north- At the February meeting, the sequence—modified somewhat from Leslie Klinger’s west corner, at the cross The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes—will be briefly reviewed and, hopefully, some with Garfield Street. Members will be recruited to lead some of the upcoming discussions.” In addition, SOB Lauran Stevens will have a new quiz for us: Identify the story from which her famous Holmes quotes come!! Then, the prepared segments will close with some slight entertainment, about Another New which PFL David is being quite mysterious!! Fun, fun, fun!! Member!! Joining us in “Millennial Holmes” late December Book review by Louisa Stein; was: excerpted from Middlebury Magazine, Fall, 2016 Elinor Gray, who’s been Authors other than Arthur Conan Doyle have been wring stories about an irregular attendee at our Sherlock Holmes and John Watson since the early years of Holmes’ popu‐ meetings of late and is a larity. Into this well‐trodden but sll rich ground enters Middlebury alum‐ Sherlockian of some renown na Briany Cavallaro with A Study in Charloe. The book’s tagline reads, who, when she lived in the UK, cofounded and is still co- “You’ve never seen Watson and Holmes like this before,” and, given the innumerable President of The Retired incarnaons of Holmes, that’s a tall claim. And yet it’s one I’m inclined to go along Beekeepers of Sussex! with, because I found Cavallaro’s offering both charming and disarming, precisely in the Welcome, Elinor!! personal and inmate way it brought me into teenaged (Jamie) Watson and (Charloe) Holmes’ world, while interweaving nods explicit and implicit to the many versions of Holmes, as well as to other detecves that have followed in his footsteps. The book takes on issues of gender, violence and peer social negoaons, class and family, issues one can recognize in Doyle’s Holmes stories, but that here play out with a contempo‐ Please Note: rary millennial resonance. Standard distribution Within the longstanding world of Sherlockiana, there is a shared investment in the of our monthly The descendants of noon that Holmes and Watson were indeed real, historical fig‐ newsletter is now Sherlock Holmes ures, and Doyle was only Watson’s editor. A Study in Charloe by email! Those and John Watson takes this “grand game” as its starng assumpon, but focuses on with NO email and those meet in this first the current generaon of Holmes and Watson, who meet (as in the who “opted out” of receiving book of a new Ineffable Twaddle by email trilogy. namesake story, “A Study in Scarlet”) for the first me when they will continue to receive find themselves exiled from London to Sherringford prep school in it by snail-mail!!! Conneccut. I won’t say too much about the plot that unfolds, but I found that A Study If you need to make a change, in Charloe offers a Holmes and Watson who feel like a synthesis of some of my favor‐ please contact Editor Terri: ite interpretaons yet who also coalesce as individual characters whom I came to care Call: (253) 460-2753 for quite a bit. I wanted to see how they worked through their internal issues and their Email: terri@soundofthe issues with one another and, of course, I wanted to find out how they solved the mystery baskervilles.com within which they inevitably found themselves embroiled. I quite… Continued on Page 4 Volume 36, February 2017, Issue 2 Page 3 Sherlock Seale: To Be, can even solve crimes quicker than the police or even Sherlock Holmes, a detecve of “modest repute”, whom or Not to Be? he challenges to a “contest”. Source: http://sherlock- A large reward is offered, by a newspaper supporng the seattle.tumblr.com/page/4 “TE”, to anyone who can beat the machine in solving a Tumblr posting January 6, 2017 crime, and Holmes takes up the challenge. He is not only It seems appropriate to write this post today of all days: assisted by Watson, but also by Inspector Tomlinson of the th Oxford Police who admires the great detecve and is also January 6 , Sherlock Holmes’ birthday.

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