Andrew Williams wrote: <The continuity in B7 is masterful compared with the Holmes canon.>
Sally replied: and the Holmes canon was only from one writer ... hmmm, maybe we *wouldn't* have been better off glitch-wise had there been less authorial fingers in the pot :-)
Ah, but the Holmes stories were written over a period of 40 years, I think, and it wasn't something Conan Doyle was particularly enthused about. It's still amusing though, that a set of stories about a character who puts stock in the fine details has so many blatant errors - Mrs. Watson addressing her husband by the wrong name, three Moriarty brothers all named James, Inspector Lestrade and his boat cannon....
Ah, but the Holmes stories were written over a period of 40 years, I think, and it wasn't something Conan Doyle was particularly enthused about. It's still amusing though, that a set of stories about a character who puts stock in the fine details has so many blatant errors
- Mrs. Watson addressing her husband by the wrong name, three Moriarty
brothers all named James, Inspector Lestrade and his boat cannon....
Andrew
Well, it has been suggested that the H. in John H. Watson's name is Hamish, the Scottish version of James. As for three Moriarty brothers, perhaps it was James, Hamish, and Iago? Or "this is my brother Daryl, and my other brother Daryl..." As for Lestrade, I wouldn't be surprised at anything he tried, including a cannon in a boat.
Sandra Kisner sjk3@cornell.edu
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