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Ineffable Twaddle “It is my business to know what other people don’t know.” —The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle 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 Volume 38 Issue 4 “Happy Anniversary to Us,…”! April, 2019 Inside this issue: Yes, we SOBs are turning Driving Directions to Carrol’s Home: 39‐years‐old on March 31, From I-5 north- or southbound, exit in Federal Way 39th Anniversary Tea is 1 2019! So join us as we celebrate at our at S.W. 320th Street and head west. After passing Saturday, April 6! Anniversary Tea on Saturday, April 6 at through intersections at 21st Ave. S.W. and at 26th Ave. rd Many Honored at 2019 1 1:00 p.m. at Carroll Clemens’ beauful S.W., turn left on S.W. 323 Street. Then take the first left on 33rd Avenue S.W. Clemens’ home will be on Masters’ Celebraon home in Federal Way. Bring a friend… your right at 32148—33rd Avenue S.W. If you need everyone is Renewal Dues are 1 further, call her at (253) 838-1790. Now Due! welcome! It’s a potluck, share and any unusual serving pieces or “How much is in the 2 so please bring utensils your food might require! Carroll writer’s words,…” finger‐food— generously provides the non‐alcoholic bev‐ Here’s Charlie Cook’s 2 sweets or erages! Look for food, entertainment, Quiz on TWIS savories—to fun and lots of great stuff in our free raffle! Coming to Portland 2 in October!! Honorees, Recognitions, Winners at 2019 Masters’ Celebration Things to See, 3 T F : Buy, Do & Know Geoff Jeffery & Cara Cross won our “Footprints of a Giganc Hound” Award! Contribung to our Pubs Vivika Sundqvist and Sunny Even won the Sherlockian Charm Bracelet drawing!! Choosing Your And, a dozen SOBs were recognized for earning their 2‐year membership cerficates Canonical Name and member ID numbers!!! 4 Our 2019 Beaten’s is Many persons, places and things were honored as well with toasts and kind words through‐ Now Available out the event, many other winners went home with great stuff from our free drawing, and Minnesota Triennial 5 our 2019 issue of Beaten’s Christmas Annual was delivered—to good reviews! Conference is August 8 In between it all was lots of food and drink, photos and smiles, and fun!! to 11 in Minneapolis!! Continued on Page 4 Gloger Comments 6 on STOC Renewal Dues are Now Due Member News & Notes 8 Are your dues paid for the Melinda Michaelson New Members! 8 April 2019 to March 2020 P. O. Box 7633 fiscal year?? Tacoma, WA 98417 If not, now’s the time to act! Newer Members: If you joined after July 1, Due to Easter, April Meeting Renew online using 2018, chances are you paid a lower, prorated is on Sunday, April 14 PayPal at: http:// rate to join through March 31, 2019, so it’s one week early! soundofthebaskervilles.com/news/join/ time for you to renew as well! Rates are: Or, send your check—payable to $20 for individuals, $30 for families (U.S. funds only). “The Sound of the Baskervilles” Renewal deadline —to our Treasurer: is March 31! Thank you all! Page 2 Ineffable Twaddle The Seattle “How much is in the writer’s words,…” Public Library on Queen Anne The Regular Monthly Meeng of The Sound of the Baskervilles will begin at 1:30 Hill is at p.m. on Sunday, April 14, 2019—one week early, on Palm Sunday—at the Seale 400 West Public Library (Queen Anne Branch), located at 400 West Garfield, Seale (driving Garfield directions at left). If you have a favorite snack, please bring it along to share! Library opens at 1:00, closes As Program Chair Sunny Even suggests: Victorian literature liked to play with the at 5:00. Come early, and catch ideas of identy, disguises and the masks we wear for society—perhaps because up with your fellow SOBs! they were so rigidly enforced. No right‐thinking Victorian would connect the up‐ Getting there: From north- or southbound I-5, standing Mr. Neville St. Clair with the grotesque beggar Hugh Boone. Doyle uses this exit at Mercer Street and head status‐conscious bias to propel the mystery behind “The Man with the Twisted Lip”. west. Turn right on Queen In spite of the clues, the reader, along with Holmes & Watson, are playing catch‐up Anne Avenue and head up the to the end. hill. At the 3-way stop sign at the top, turn left onto West Is it my imaginaon that there’s an undercurrent of disapproval over St. Clair’s Galer Street. At 4th Avenue, chosen “profession?” Does Doyle present St. Clair’s decepon in the same forgiving turn right. The library is one (1) light as he does Holmes’: when the detecve gleefully assumes disguises to play oth‐ block north on the northwest ers for the fool? Is St. Clair a performer or is he a cheat? It’s hard to say—for me, corner, at the cross with Garfield Street. this is one of the more intriguing aspects of reading popular literature 130 years aer the fact. How much is in the writer’s words, and how much is in how we re‐ ceive them? Here’s Charlie Cook’s Quiz on “The Man with the Twisted Lip” 1. Name the woman who burst into Dr. And Mrs. Wat‐ opium den. son’s domicile. 8. How did the cripple earn his 2. Why did she seek their help? income? 3. Where did Watson find the soluon to the woman’s 9. Who ran the opium den? problem? 10. What was in the pockets of a coat 4. What else did Watson discover when helping the found on the mud bank of the river? woman? 11. Who murdered the missing gentle‐ 5. Holmes told Watson a story about what gentleman? man? 6. What was the gentleman’s wife stunned to see? 12. Why did the cripple do what he did? 7. Name the old cripple who lodged in a room above an Answers may be found on Page 5 A Weekend of Scholarship and Camaraderie Coming this year to the Pacific Northwest Friday, October 11, 2019, 6:00 p.m. to Sunday, October 13, 2019, 1:00 p.m. University Place Hotel & Conference Center, 310 S.W. Lincoln Street, Portland, OR Call: 1.866.845.4647 Start planning your aendance now, and make yourself known to other SOB Members!! We already have requests for roommates, and carpooling and volunteering should be considered! Head to: hps://www.facebook.com/events/357827828136779/ where you’ll see an outline of this weekend event’s schedule, and links to the conference venue and hotel. When booking your rooms, the code for special room rates is: GROUP The Le Coast Sherlockian Symposium will be a fun and educaonal weekend of talks, socializing and friend‐ ship in Portland, Oregon…“molded in the image of other Sherlockian events around the United States”. With proud support of THE SOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES and its Members! Volume 38, April 2019, Issue 4 Page 3 Things to See, Buy, Do & Know Calling all Writers, Puzzlers, Poets, Illustrators, Our own Sunny Even got mention in Peter Blau’s cur- Cooks, Reviewers and rent newsletter (Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press) wherein he expanded on SUNNY’S ESSAY (“A STREAM OF CONSCIOUS- Jokesters! NESS...”) IN OUR FEBRUARY 2019 ISSUE (Vol. 38, Issue 2, Page 1) Serious or silly, it’s all good! with this: “Gregory Dowling’s essay on ‘G. K. Chesterton’s Would you like to see your essay, story, review, pastiche, cartoon Father Brown Stories: The Debt to Sherlock Holmes’, is or research work published? available as a free download at www.academia.edu, a website To contribute to our monthly newsleer, Ineffable that offers free access to more than 22 million research Twaddle, you’re encouraged to limit your wrings papers—including 300 with “Sherlock Holmes” in the title. to 350 words. Submissions are taken throughout SOB Cara Cross: I have a large selection of Sherlock the year. Holmes items for purchase at MY SPACE IN THE PACIFIC RUN To contribute to our Beaten’s Christmas Annual ANTIQUE MALL IN TACOMA UNTIL JULY 1, 2019. Included in the (more than 350 words), there’s much wider latude. Submissions are taken in the 4th quarter of the year, display are games, puzzles, photos, posters, statues, pins, with a December 31 deadline. watches, teddy bears, dolls, and more. New items will be Please send any queries and submissions to added periodically. Don’t forget to bring your coupon to Editor Terri at: receive a 15% discount on any item above $5 in my space nd [email protected] #40 (coupon is a 2 attachment for those receiving IT by Surely you’ve got something to say about Holmes, Wat- email; snail-mailers will receive a hard copy of the coupon!). son, Doyle, the Canon or Victorian-era England...about books, movies, TV shows or audio materials! Share it! From President Fran Martin of The Stormy Petrels of B.C.: Here is the link to the LATEST PETREL FLYER: http://bit.ly/Petrels_2018_4. For our Newer Members Received from both VP Kashena and Cameron Brandon: Our springtime renewal period is always a good time The THIRD ROBERT DOWNEY JR. to think about your Canonical name!! AND JUDE LAW SHERLOCK HOLMES Here are our Club’s rules: MOVIE has now been delayed Your Canonical Name (alter-ego) may be any person, until Christmas 2021 from place or thing from Sherlockiana with which you’d like to Christmas 2020.