tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85122224323115377772024-02-19T00:32:50.215-06:00Special & Rare On A StickThis blog grew out of participation in the Minnesota 23 Things On a Stick program and has a eye on how all of this Web 2.0 stuff matters to archives and special collections. If you don't get the "on a stick" part of the title, just visit the Minnesota State Fair: all the good stuff to eat is served on a stick.
The views and opinions in this blog are my own and do not represent the views, opinions or policies of my employer.Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.comBlogger422125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-34647885707152678232023-11-16T10:21:00.002-06:002023-11-16T10:22:53.569-06:00I'm Still Here! And May Be More Often!An email arrived in my inbox today which relates to this blog. It read:<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
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</span></div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>This email address has a legacy Blogger account associated with it that hasn’t logged in since 2007. In 60 days it will lose access to the account and associated content; the data will be permanently deleted unless migrated to the Google Account system at Legacy migration page.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are no associated blogs with this account.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Blogger team</div><div><br /></div><div>Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland</div><div><br /></div><div>You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Blogger product or account.</div></blockquote><p>I was a bit surprised with the note that I've not logged in in 2007 since I've posted many items well past that date. So I'm posting this little bit just to say that I'm still here. With the decline of Twitter, aka "X," I may resort to these pages somewhat more in the future. Stay tuned.</p><p>TJ </p><div></div></div>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-59734053992077769792021-12-26T15:17:00.001-06:002023-11-16T14:24:41.070-06:00The 12 Days of History<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600"
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</v:shape><![endif]--></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-size: 26.6667px;">On behalf of the </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-size: 26.6667px;">#HistoryMatters </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-size: 26.6667px;">community, we present </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-size: 26.6667px;">to @jbf1755 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-size: 26.6667px;">@HistoryNewbie </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-size: 26.6667px;">“The Twelve Days </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-size: 26.6667px;">of </span></span><span style="font-size: 26.6667px;">History!” </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-size: 26.6667px;">Ready, sing along 🎶</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">ON THE FIRST day of</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">history my professor</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">gave to me…a Newbs</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Oodle for Contingency!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhVWQzd8Xp2NPv-2ftVrBy1ghU5Q_mMxUuLxT_uFr52HYZouTU8MqDlXBbJiVpGN8VZtWuwcRz8mW8ywjpNDOi160wJ9VLlkiktpf7QxaNt8gNgFE_Mk2ruTMI_wH16N0cXPgetkdwdxI/" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-size: 20pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="397" data-original-width="277" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhVWQzd8Xp2NPv-2ftVrBy1ghU5Q_mMxUuLxT_uFr52HYZouTU8MqDlXBbJiVpGN8VZtWuwcRz8mW8ywjpNDOi160wJ9VLlkiktpf7QxaNt8gNgFE_Mk2ruTMI_wH16N0cXPgetkdwdxI/w139-h200/image.png" width="139" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">ON THE SECOND day</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">o</span><span style="font-size: 20pt;">f </span><span style="font-size: 20pt;">history my professor</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">gave to me...Two</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Swinging Canes, and</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">a Newbs Oodle for</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Contingency!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBltu0-rFul3arNziTyIkLbwrE8zMEJd_Aa140r7vsJVSqt2Ir15yqQqVjW3fkQ2GG7arG2gMjQ_IlTuomXoObvxRuTP4v-IGeVerQKKF2UAFz4uPxTYbVC1PJlS6GLtmSiCWzYvknyc/" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-size: 20pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="424" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBltu0-rFul3arNziTyIkLbwrE8zMEJd_Aa140r7vsJVSqt2Ir15yqQqVjW3fkQ2GG7arG2gMjQ_IlTuomXoObvxRuTP4v-IGeVerQKKF2UAFz4uPxTYbVC1PJlS6GLtmSiCWzYvknyc/w200-h135/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">ON THE THIRD day of</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">history my professor</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">gave to me...Three-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Cornered Hats, Two</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Swinging Canes, and</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">a Newbs Oodle for</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Contingency!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 20pt;">ON THE FOURTH day</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">history my professor</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">gave to me…</span><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Four</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Freedoms Dear,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Three-Cornered Hats,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Two Swinging Canes,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">and a Newbs Oodle</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">for
Contingency!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFYOtjNTiV_mgYmZe2fe6RlRvgbWxl0yVOaKe8W7-eehTnKECaQJ2dWHFZlX36Sk83V-9oIywAbKlAH-8QERd0F_mXvmDaNSy-R3IwfAPvnkQlX_-fgZ_q25qhiCAptQACnuocYC7Rf5M/" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="381" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFYOtjNTiV_mgYmZe2fe6RlRvgbWxl0yVOaKe8W7-eehTnKECaQJ2dWHFZlX36Sk83V-9oIywAbKlAH-8QERd0F_mXvmDaNSy-R3IwfAPvnkQlX_-fgZ_q25qhiCAptQACnuocYC7Rf5M/w143-h200/image.png" width="143" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfTuJ4M2_zToalIZcSxjcC0mwOxno3zBhTCJSFXrlE5CQ6E2dkwI54ScLWYMaPyxRIUnmuI_9KUIgkCrisBOp-ewdXyS2L51ztfKi-kIv8arwppEOfI4h1Nkrm4jkg4sZLxNK4CS1xP2c/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">ON THE FIFTH day of</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">history my professor</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">gave to me...FIVE MUGS</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">OF RUM! Four</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Freedoms Dear, Three-</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Cornered Hats, Two</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Swinging Canes, and a</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Newbs Oodle for</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Contingency! </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxQ7jyyjOpsX9tofzVmj7RuMuaEish5rh76Luwdahoiy2_lo2az70PDBxbRe2NcYWzHf82hGsOd2cynp7VJGIqKFXMQfSjJuBkuN4tnbcMoOAb86JNyJfBVnhR37EHXHzTYEhP5eacNXQ/" style="clear: left; 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font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">ON THE SIXTH day of</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">history my professor</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">gave to me...Six Pure</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">White Stripes, FIVE</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">MUGS OF RUM! </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Four Freedoms Dear,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; 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font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">ON THE SEVENTH day</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">of </a><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">history my professor</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">gave to me...Seven</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Stripes of Scarlet, Six</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Pure White Stripes,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">FIVE MUGS OF RUM!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Four Freedoms Dear,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Three-Cornered Hats,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Two Swinging Canes,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">and a Newbs Oodle</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">for Contingency!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5EYRwHyrRt49kldlqElpVCswcd2KCttHoxRUdbjpl_ONmf5vZ6KYO3OMPXVt9dleKbFOtTWS5wWnYoXJRxUe7k2VAWWng8dQXR2I-bn8yqtCgvu1Oo6L8bSrXKmtkwdoXgXh7xxnFdxI/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="442" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5EYRwHyrRt49kldlqElpVCswcd2KCttHoxRUdbjpl_ONmf5vZ6KYO3OMPXVt9dleKbFOtTWS5wWnYoXJRxUe7k2VAWWng8dQXR2I-bn8yqtCgvu1Oo6L8bSrXKmtkwdoXgXh7xxnFdxI/w200-h128/image.png" width="200" /></a><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">ON THE EIGHTH day</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">of </a><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">history my professor</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">gave to me...Eight A.</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Ham Letters, Seven</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Stripes of Scarlet, Six</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Pure White Stripes,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">FIVE MUGS OF RUM!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Four Freedoms Dear,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Three-Cornered Hats,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Two Swinging Canes,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">and a Newbs Oodle for</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Contingency!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMaav_kpHPX0Fb4XKZmiLzG19oCGodOEC479Wbb_lAMelFpiV2W9GHh1ftiAbgFnseE171NOyASkzYD0cblRbjZOWltQbbE88i1ULmTB8dovPTCFb7MReeAjaTqkbUuZJojZv8yLu9J84/" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="598" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMaav_kpHPX0Fb4XKZmiLzG19oCGodOEC479Wbb_lAMelFpiV2W9GHh1ftiAbgFnseE171NOyASkzYD0cblRbjZOWltQbbE88i1ULmTB8dovPTCFb7MReeAjaTqkbUuZJojZv8yLu9J84/w200-h156/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">ON THE NINTH day of</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">history my professor</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">gave to me...Nine</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Supreme Court Judges,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Eight A. Ham Letters,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Seven Stripes of Scarlet,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Six Pure White Stripes,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">FIVE MUGS OF RUM!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Four Freedoms Dear,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Three-Cornered Hats,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Two Swinging Canes,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">and a Newbs Oodle</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">for Contingency!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_KzKHqWmQ1eNILPBbSrk7QQMzU2E2Z5mWkmyu1w58YCkTN9GX9SHUzYHxwCzLstkHPMK6COOuC8m_Lpl-gcWdnO5Z2-494BAS06tfRVOg82QFSiEJ1z_eQpuqWu9AK4CesNi8FbaiHzc/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="571" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_KzKHqWmQ1eNILPBbSrk7QQMzU2E2Z5mWkmyu1w58YCkTN9GX9SHUzYHxwCzLstkHPMK6COOuC8m_Lpl-gcWdnO5Z2-494BAS06tfRVOg82QFSiEJ1z_eQpuqWu9AK4CesNi8FbaiHzc/w200-h113/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">ON THE TENTH day of</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">history my professor</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">gave to me...Ten Fine</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Amendments, Nine</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Supreme Court Judges,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Eight A. Ham Letters,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Seven Stripes of Scarlet,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Six Pure White Stripes,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">FIVE MUGS OF RUM!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Four Freedoms Dear,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Three-Cornered Hats,</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Two Swinging Canes, </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">and a Newbs Oodle </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">for Contingency!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibJWRAZfTW58_BVKmmk64NQcnWv_PK6ljpfAsizqxwr5u3FI-ZN8-1csWq0VQI0sWT-iO_2TYoTRSyFRWr4pUTXs7BolGyXdn5_kb1LH9I1OeyGfPTl8Dc9z3Lgod1TnXhvDNHy8P6Zwk/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="569" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibJWRAZfTW58_BVKmmk64NQcnWv_PK6ljpfAsizqxwr5u3FI-ZN8-1csWq0VQI0sWT-iO_2TYoTRSyFRWr4pUTXs7BolGyXdn5_kb1LH9I1OeyGfPTl8Dc9z3Lgod1TnXhvDNHy8P6Zwk/w200-h113/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">ON THE ELEVENTH </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">day of history my </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">professor gave to me...</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Eleven Mammoth </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Cheeses, </a><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Ten Fine </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Amendments, </a><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Nine </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Supreme Court Judges, </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Eight A. Ham Letters, </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Seven Stripes of Scarlet, </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Six Pure White Stripes, </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">FIVE MUGS OF RUM! </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Four Freedoms Dear, </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Three-Cornered Hats, </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Two Swinging Canes, </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">and a Newbs Oodle </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">for Contingency!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD7kKWfz1F1YD0GK-ETkBELhyiiL0-MKYsiND6YNa_Tpzecfeu8_X3YVeszFx-0mfSk-_0fIvMT0cXuC1liyBl73CFAujBmc6nrdbs-1Rut1k6bIoong7fkHla1OfT9rQNLNwor1-Oio8/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="543" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD7kKWfz1F1YD0GK-ETkBELhyiiL0-MKYsiND6YNa_Tpzecfeu8_X3YVeszFx-0mfSk-_0fIvMT0cXuC1liyBl73CFAujBmc6nrdbs-1Rut1k6bIoong7fkHla1OfT9rQNLNwor1-Oio8/w200-h195/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">ON THE TWELFTH day </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">of history my professor </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">gave to me...Twelve </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Duels in Congress, </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Eleven Mammoth </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Cheeses, Ten Fine </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Amendments, Nine </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Supreme Court Judges, </a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk91273773" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 20pt;">Eight A. 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</span></div>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-25306670897913755082019-10-16T11:01:00.000-05:002019-10-16T11:01:17.220-05:00"Hum" — Reflections on a Sherlockian World, Inspired by Poetry, Roses, and Bees<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m
not a regular poetry reader. I dip into poems now and then, but it is not my
customary fare. However, the recent death of Mary Oliver (January 17, 2019), whom
(it may surprise you) I didn’t know, reading her obituary in <i>The New York Times</i>, and a collection of
her poems I discovered—thanks to a book club—in a volume with an evocative
title—<i>Devotions</i>—all spoke to me. I
like her poems. Or at least the ones I’ve read. I especially like “Hum” and,
inspired by it (and Sherlockian motifs I read into it), decided to try
something a little bit crazy and slightly radical, at least for me, especially
as I’m not a poet: write a prose poem that says a lot of what I want to say about
the Sherlockian world from my perspective as curator of a significant Holmesian
collection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So
that is what I’m about to do. Read you my poem, a riff on “Hum.” If not a poem,
consider it a meditation on all things Sherlockian, broken up into little
chunks and pauses and wonders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But
first, let me read you my inspiration: Mary Oliver’s “Hum.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What is this dark
hum among the roses?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The bees have gone
simple, sipping,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">that’s all. What
did you expect? Sophistication?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They’re small
creatures and they are<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">filling their
bodies with sweetness, how could they not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">moan in happiness?
The little<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">worker bee lives,
I have read, about three weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Is that long? Long
enough, I suppose, to understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">that life is a
blessing. I have found them—haven’t you?—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">stopped in the
very cups of the flowers, their wings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">a little
tattered-so much flying about, to the hive,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">then out into the
world, then back, and perhaps dancing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">should the task be
to be a scout—sweet, dancing bee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I think there isn’t
anything in this world I don’t<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">admire. If there
is, I don’t know what it is. I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">haven’t met it
yet. Nor expect to. The bee is small,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and since I wear
glasses, so I can see the traffic and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">read books, I have
to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">take them off and
bend close to study and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">understand what is
happening. It’s not hard, it’s in fact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">as instructive as
anything I have ever studied. Plus, too,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">it’s love almost
too fierce to endure, the bee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">nuzzling like that
into the blouse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">of the rose. And
the fragrance, and the honey, and of course<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">the sun, the
purely pure sun, shining, all the while, over<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">all of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And now, my piece. I’ll echo lines from
“Hum,” usually at the top of each section. And improvise, groove, or dance to
her words.... Her poem is short. I read it in less than two minutes. I have
twenty-five minutes for mine. Yikes! Are you ready? Here we go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What is this dark hum among the roses?</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We dabble in poetry, but Canon came
first—or did it?—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">even if Doyle tried his hand at verse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Did you know he published nearly ninety
poems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in three volumes? Maybe more. I’m not sure
I counted them all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I hear a little spark in this,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">two stanzas he wrote in 1902, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">titled “The Empire”<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They said that it had feet of clay,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That its fall was sure and quick.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the flames of yesterday<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All the clay was burned to brick.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When they carved our epitaph<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And marked us doomed beyond recall,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">"We are," we answered, with
a laugh,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">"The Empire that declines to
fall."</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Would Doyle, were he alive today, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">be a Brexiter? Or a
Remainer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Would he decline to fall?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I think being a fan of Holmes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">allows me to ask the
question. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And this one:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Did he ever think the sun would set <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">on his empire?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or on the empire of
Holmes and Watson?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Is Sherlockian fandom an
empire that declines to fall?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s too much humming at present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s hard to hear, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">hard to see, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">hard to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">understand <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">what’s swirling all
around us. It’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">not all good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some of it is downright
destructive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What is this dark hum?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Are you allergic to beestings?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I don’t think Doyle was a very good poet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or is not known for his
poetry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thank goodness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But who am I to judge? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Poet that I am not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We may never have had Holmes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">if ACD deduced in rhyme.
Still, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">it is poetry in Canon that often grabs me,
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">even in prose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Consider this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Over the wide expanse there was no
sound and no movement. One great gray bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in
the blue heaven. He and I seemed to be the only living things between the huge
arch of the sky and the desert beneath it. The barren scene, the sense of
loneliness, and the mystery and urgency of my task all stuck a chill into my heart.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Whose was it?’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘His who is gone.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Who shall have it?’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘He who will come.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(‘What was the month?’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘The sixth from the first.’)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Where was the sun?’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Over the oak.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Under the elm.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘How was it stepped?’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘North by ten and by ten, east by
five and by five, south by two and by two, west by one and by one, and so
under.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘What shall we give for it?’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘All that is ours.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Why should we give it?’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘For the sake of the trust.’<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[The trust has been co-opted. But I’ll set
that aside for now. It’s my private battle.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Poetry outside of Canon has its moments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m not a huge fan of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Schweikert’s “A Long
Evening with Holmes” (1984)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">but it has its time <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and place <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and tender moments,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and starts out strong,
grabs my attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“When the world closes in with its
worries and cares<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And my problems and headaches are
coming in pairs<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I just climb in my mind up those
seventeen stairs<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And spend a long evening with Holmes.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On the other hand,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and close every presentation I make<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He lived <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">living and working and
Chicago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The buried bit is as yet undetermined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But I was stirred during a visit to his
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Here dwell together still two men of
note <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Who never lived and so can never die.
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remote <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That age before the world went all
awry.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We have gone a bit awry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I won’t say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Just a bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At least from where I see things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From where I sit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">II<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am a “big tent”
Sherlockian. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s plenty of room in the tent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">for everyone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“All god’s creatures got a place in
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some sing low and some sing higher, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some sing out loud on a telephone
wire, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some just clap their hands, or paws,
or anything they’ve got now.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But it should be a safe tent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and...whatever else wicked
this way comes...<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and keeps us dry,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But, even in the tent, I wonder what it
means <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">gets along.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Any Holmes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">is better than no Holmes.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We had little to no Holmes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in the 60s and early 70s.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No Holmes. No Watson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Vietnam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and Civil Rights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and Assassinations <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and Watergate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">took care of that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mourning <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Addie Mae Collins (14)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and Cynthia Wesley (14)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and Carole Robertson (14)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and Carol Denise McNair
(11)<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and Medgar<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">were more important<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">than climbing seventeen
stairs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At least to some of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was just a kid. I didn’t know Holmes, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">really.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But I saw<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">cities burned, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">communities ravaged, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">both home and abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Too many things <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">bubbled to the surface,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">too many killings,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">too many lynchings,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">things that we’re still dealing with. I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">won’t go into details. You know <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">what I mean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Norwegian Explorers <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">almost folded up shop. But they were a <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">drop in the bucket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A very tiny drop. But important to a few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I wonder how many scions <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">paused?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All of this happened <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">before some of your times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I don’t hold that against you. You had <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">no choice in the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But how much <b><i>do</i></b> <b><i>you</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">value the societies <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">you belong to? Take them <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and treat them as a gift,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and nourished <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and harvested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And planted again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This is your garden. These are <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">your flowers. You are <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the bees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pollinate</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And then came<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nicholas Meyer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and <i>The
Seven-Per-Cent Solution</i>.<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Off to the races—again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The game was afoot!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We’re riding a wave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">will it last? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Let’s enjoy it while it endures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I haven’t seen Ferrell and Reilly’s <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Holmes & Watson.” So we might be <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">stretching things a bit <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">that something <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">is better than nothing. That some Holmes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">is better than no Holmes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That we’re riding a wave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Maybe the wave is crashing? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No. It can’t be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I know a Peorian—is that what they call
themselves? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">—who is <i>crazy</i> about this movie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At least I think he is,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And posted about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We need crazy. Within bounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And I really should see the movie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(and buy a copy for the Collections). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Your majesty, would you mind if we had a
picture together?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Surf’s up! Ride the wave! Say cheese! Watch
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">III<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They’re small creatures and they are <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">filling their bodies with sweetness</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s really no need for divisions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fandoms, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">devotees, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">gay, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">lesbian, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">trans, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">bi, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">queer, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">straight, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">young, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You name it. There’s room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s room. There’s room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“No Holmes barred.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s always <b><i>been</i></b> room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There always <b><i>will</i> <i>be</i></b> room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Safe room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Accepting room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although, I will admit: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We’re generally a pretty
white bunch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I don’t run into many Sherlockians <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">of color. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The devotee side of the ledger <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">is pretty gray,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and wrinkled,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">with an average age of
103. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m kidding. But they’re quite old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Relatively speaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m almost in their
bracket. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But not quite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fandom is pretty young<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and <b><i>really</i></b> different than me.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Different is okay. Actually, better than
okay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And is it really
different?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or
something else? I’m not sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">SherlockSeattle exposed me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was an amazing, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">illuminating, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">enlightening, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">humbling, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">tearful, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">emotional exposure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Which reminds me—an aside—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">destinationtoast and strangelock’s
Sherlockian Fandom Stats presentation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Blew. Me. Away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It really was something. I don’t know if I
ever said “thank you.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Another aside: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Seattle is where I learned <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">to attend to the rules<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and pay attention to who
wants their picture taken <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and who doesn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Who wants to be noted, or
not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tweeted, or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thanks to the kind soul <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">who tapped me on the shoulder <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">while sitting in the audience behind me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and reminded me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was embarrassed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My enthusiasm <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">got the better of me. I learned something <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">new. It was good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I deleted posts and pics <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But back to people of color and age and
preference and whatever...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We can do better. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We’re a welcoming, if sometimes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">irregular, bunch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In anything we do. We need more color, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">more kindness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">more grace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We don’t talk politics much. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That’s probably a good thing. Maybe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In this context. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I recently attended a dinner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was a nice dinner, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">an elegant dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was seated near the end <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">of a very long table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Trumper to the left of me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Trumper to the right of
me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Stuck in the middle with you.<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(maybe it was the wine),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I blurted out: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Well, I’m particularly
fond of Scandinavian socialism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I still have family there. They seem to be
doing all right.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Shut those Trumpers up proper it did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Apoplectic fit? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thought they might fall right out of their
chairs? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Maybe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They didn’t. Because they’re still friends
with me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">we weren’t there <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">to talk politics. We were
there <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">to celebrate the Master. And so, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the dinner conversation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">went in a different
direction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Probably a good thing. We
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and candlelight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">An occasional debate
broke out, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">rooted in Canon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The entire company joined
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A memorable evening. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is good to share food <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and drink <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and company <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and love around the table. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">delectable, deducible
delights? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Communities have similarities. But they’re
also <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">different. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We should celebrate both.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or all. And we should be <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">more welcoming, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">more open. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Easy, maybe for you to say. Or for me to
say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m an introvert. I’ll probably <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">escape to <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">my room <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">sometime this weekend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">to recover. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Just be sure to knock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m not a big fan <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">of clubs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Too exclusive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But I’ll confess: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m a Hound in Chicago, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">a Norwegian Explorer up
north, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">a Pondicherry Lodger in
New York, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and I think I’m still in
good standing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">as an honorary member <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">of the Sound of the Baskervilles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Christopher Morley seems to <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">have liked clubs. I like <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the names he chose for his clubs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Three Hours for Lunch
Club.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Grillparzer
Sittenpolizei Verein” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“The Baker Street
Irregulars.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am not an Irregular. I don’t know <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">if I ever will be, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">or want to be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am, perhaps, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">not “clubbable” enough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It makes no never mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’ve been to ten of their dinners. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As a guest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That may be <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">good enough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I need to lose weight anyway. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">IV<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How could they not moan in happiness</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After all, this is supposed to be a game. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Great Game. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A Grand Game. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And games are supposed to
be fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“The game must be played with one’s tongue
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">firmly in one’s cheek, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">but with all the seriousness of a game of cricket at
Lords.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So said Dorothy L. Sayers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So, a game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Of cricket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or a hobby. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or an avocation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or a distraction or diversion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">An escape. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We enter <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Baker Street <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">on our own terms, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">with our own devices and desires,<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">our own wishes and wants
and needs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Are we having fun yet? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It should be fun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is fun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Most of the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We need not cause <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">pain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">we might admit, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">or must admit, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">that some of us <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">are a little more <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">cutthroat <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">or competitive <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">when it comes to playing games.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How many books in your
library?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How many fics have you
written?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How many letters can you
put after your name?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How many groups do you
belong to? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Games have rules. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or do they? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Can’t we just make up the rules <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">as we go along? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or bend them? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or break them? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I still don’t know a lot <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">about ships. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But I’m learning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And reading. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And watching. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And listening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We have a whole raft of resources, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">things to float on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and in <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and through <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">as we’re playing the game. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Decades of “Writings on the Writings.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Over a century’s worth, the last time I
looked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Piles of <i>Baker Street Journals</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or <i>Canadian Holmes</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or <i>The Sherlock Holmes Journal</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Books and puzzles and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">restaurant menus and beer
glasses and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">wine bottles and candy
and videos and pictures and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">art and this, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and that, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and the other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You can blame another <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">master or two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ronald Knox, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Edith Meiser, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Edgar Smith, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">for that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Shaw loved (and collected) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">everything <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and anything <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">that had to do <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">with Sherlock Holmes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And yet it is a bit surprising. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">DeWaal’s monumental <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">bibliography lists <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">25,000 or so items created between 1887 and 1994 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">that had something to do with Holmes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">or Watson <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">or their world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Last time I checked, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">five times that number of
things <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in their amazing online platform. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Congrats, by the way, on your Hugo
nomination and award. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s a really big deal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A. REALLY. BIG. DEAL. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You should be proud. Very proud. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">V<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">it’s love almost too fierce to
endure, the bee<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">of the rose.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I love what Holmes says about the rose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“What a lovely thing a rose is!. . . <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is nothing in which deduction
is so necessary <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">as in religion....<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It can be built up as an exact
science <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">by the reasoner. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our highest assurance of the goodness
of Providence <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">seems to me to rest in the flowers. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All other things, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">our powers, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">our desires, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">our food, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">are all really necessary for our
existence <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in the first instance. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But this rose is an extra. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Its smell and its colour are an
embellishment of life, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">not a condition of it. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is only goodness which give
extras, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and so I say again <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">that we have much to hope from the
flowers.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[18]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Have you seen the wonder <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in a child’s eyes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">when they see something
special <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in an exhibit or a book or a picture or a movie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">about Mr. Holmes? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Have you watched parents and children, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">grandparents and friends <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">slowly bent over a case <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">viewing an original manuscript
from the hand of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Watson (or Holmes or Doyle) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and sensed the wonder in their face? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or stood near a young
girl <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">as she examined an
original page from the <i>Hound</i>, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">her favorite story, and cried tears of joy? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">an original <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paget <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">or Steele <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">or . . . pick your
favorite artist <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We sometimes forget <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">about music or art, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">either of which <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">impossible for a text. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some of the most profound moments in my
life <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">came through music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sometimes music says what needs saying <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">when words alone fail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s not a lot of Sherlockian music out
there, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">beyond the soundtracks to Brett’s series, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">RDJ’s films, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">or BBC Sherlock. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’d like to see, and hear, more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Harry Officer tried some music earlier.<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And so did <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Richard Burton (or Harris, I forget
which). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To be honest, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">it is forgettable music. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or music from another time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’d like to hear <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the music of the bees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or Mary Russell. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or Charlotte Holmes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or Enola Holmes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or Evaline Stoker and
Mina Holmes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Give me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">some steampunk Holmes
music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">or a Queen/Holmes mashup.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">or Emerson, Lake and
Palmer on Baker Street, in the mode of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> “Fanfare for the Common Man.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Did Holmes or Watson like Country Music?<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Am I showing my age?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m sure I am. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">VI<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The little worker bee lives, I have
read, about three weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Here, though the world explode, these two
survive. And it is always eighteen ninety-five.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Even time <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">conspires <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">to remind us of this universe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This strange and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">wonderful universe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I pick up my phone <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in the midst of writing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is 2:21 in the
afternoon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I like poet Mary Oliver <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and prose author Annie
Dillard <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">because of the way <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">they look at the world.<a href="file:///C:/Users/johns976/Documents/Research%20and%20Writing/Holmes/For%20Elinor_Left%20Coast%20Symposium.docx#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They
see and observe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I think Holmes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">would enjoy their
company. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Together these three <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">help me see. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And observe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Life is too short.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We shouldn’t spend it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> fighting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s too much good that needs doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“sweet, dancing bee.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Holmes would approve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> In
this century or the next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">VII<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Long enough, I suppose, to understand
that life is a blessing.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I know I’ve missed some things <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">as I’ve poured out words <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">this past few minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The nice thing to remember <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">is that you’re there (and
here)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I
should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my
presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might
be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance,
charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all
strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 11, The Man on the Tor. Hat tip to
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Collins, Wesley, Robertson, and McNair died on September 15, 1963, in
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Evers, June 12, 1963, Jackson, Mississippi<o:p></o:p></div>
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November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas<o:p></o:p></div>
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February 21, 1965, Manhattan, New York City<o:p></o:p></div>
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April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennesse<o:p></o:p></div>
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June 6, 1968, Los Angeles, California<o:p></o:p></div>
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York: E. P. Dutton, 1974.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My thanks to Paul Thomas Miller, aka BaronVonBork, for this line and Doyle’s
Rotary Coffin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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in the Middle with You, " written by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan, performed
by their band Stealers Wheel, released in 1972.<o:p></o:p></div>
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am of Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish extraction and still have family in all
three countries, some of whom I’ve yet to meet. Go back far enough and I’m sure
you’ll find Vikings. Skol!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Book of Common Prayer, and also the title of a novel by P. D. James.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Naval Treaty<o:p></o:p></div>
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Also the writings and studies of James Montgomery, Guy Warrack. Alas, Gilbert
and Sullivan are not mentioned in the Canon although Bert Coules has Watson as
a fan in his BBC audio series. Scott Monty and Burt Wolder discuss music in the
Canon as part of their “Sherlock Holmes: Trifles” podcast.<o:p></o:p></div>
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wrote some of this while watching “Country Music,” the latest documentary film
from Ken Burns. Take the Burns film and Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz” and you’ll
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Especially Dillard’s <i>Pilgrim at Tinker
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Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-28985246218860291682018-12-06T10:52:00.000-06:002018-12-06T10:52:55.821-06:00A Holiday Reflection<br />
This post has nothing to do with libraries, archives, or special collections. Or, it may have everything to do with my life as a curator and how I perceive, or partially perceive, this world. I see through a glass, and darkly. Indeed, this may be the first time I have published something as personal as this in this space. But something moves me to do this, if for no other reason than to say out loud, and thus share with you, a thing that makes up part of my inner life--and thus informs who I am, not only as a librarian, but as a human being.<br />
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Not all who might read this will share its faithful underpinnings. They may, in fact, reject it completely. And yet, I write this knowing that something must be said, something done on my part, to counter the bitter darkness, division, and evils of this age. This is but a small piece of what is a much longer pilgrimage. I am on a path, one that favors the light, even as it moves through shadows and mist.<br />
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What follows is a hint at what I believe and why I am so passionate about things such as my engagement with the scholarships committee in my professional association, or of libraries and librarians as activists for social justice. This meditation is part of a much longer series of writings I've shared over the years with a group of close friends and family. Consider it a gift, or at least a wish, from a friend.<br />
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“<i>If you’re younger than 35 years old, you’ve never seen less sunshine during our meteorological autumn (September through November) than you saw in 2018. You might impress your friends with that fact at your next party.</i>” — Ron Trenda, Minnesota Public Radio meteorologist, in the MPR <i><a href="https://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/">Updraft</a></i> blog, December 2, 2018</blockquote>
It was the first Sunday in Advent, the first evening of Hannakuh when this perception surfaced, triggered by a friend’s injury. Now, later in the week, having experienced it firsthand, the same thought remains: it is difficult to watch someone suffer; even more so to observe suffering in the lives of family or friends. We don’t normally associate an observation of affliction with the holiday season. Rather, it is a time of lights and singing, of joy, hope, and anticipation. And yet, here I sit, wondering about suffering and my relationship to the sufferer.<br />
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This particular misery has nothing to do with a time of year or arising from a seasonal affective disorder. On the other hand, a recent posting from the Minnesota State Climatology Office doesn’t help lighten the load: “September through November 2018 was quite gloomy across Minnesota. In fact, looking at solar radiation records at the U of M St. Paul Campus Climate Observatory it was the least sunny meteorological autumn since 1983.” No, this hardship is something greater, a ubiquitous human condition—assuming, of course, the existence of some capacity for compassion in the observer.<br />
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My attention is drawn to this anguished relationship. Since this is the time of year—between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day—when I traditionally read works by or about C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, or other “Inklings” (including, for me, Dorothy L. Sayers), I am reminded of Lewis’s marriage to Joy Davidman, his writings on pain and grief, as well as his thoughts on “subsititution.” As Andrew Stout described it <a href="http://www.academia.edu/29444301/_It_Was_Allowed_to_One_C._S._Lewis_on_the_Practice_of_Substitution">in a 2016 article</a>, the practice of substitution as developed in the literary works of Lewis’s friend, Charles Williams, depicts a metaphysical “character of a universe in which individuals can consciously and intentionally ‘bear one another’s burdens’ of fear, anxiety, and possibly even physical sickness or pain.”<br />
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By examining writings of Williams and Lewis, Stout compares and contrasts Williams’s willingness to embrace substitutionary practice with Lewis’s more cautionary approach. He concludes: “Though acknowledging the effectiveness of Williams’s use of the practice, Lewis’s appropriation of substitution would indicate that it is too much to presume on the mystery of God’s ways to turn this principle into a technique or discipline to be practiced intentionally.” Near the end of his article, Stout focuses on Lewis’s relationship with Joy Davidman’s illness and death, events indicative of Lewis’s thinking on substitution.<br />
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Lewis’s final remark, “one must not be fanciful,” confirms the thought that substitution should not be seen as an intentional spiritual discipline or practice.<br />
Stout makes a final observation, in a marital context, on the practical limits of Williams’s beliefs by quoting from Lewis’s <i>A Grief Observed</i>:<br />
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There’s a limit to the “one flesh.” You can’t really share someone else’s weakness, or fear or pain. What you may feel may be bad. It might conceivably be as bad as what the other felt, though I should distrust anyone who claimed that it was. But it would still be quite different. When I speak of fear, I mean the merely animal fear, the recoil of the organism from its destruction; the smothery feeling; the sense of being a rat in a trap. It can’t be transferred.</blockquote>
It may not be transferred, but in some way it can still be shared. The Apostle Paul urges me to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.” A quick glance at some online sources tells me that commentators and theologians are not quite sure what Paul meant by the phrase “the law of Christ.” I have neither time nor space here to investigate possible interpretations of the phrase. Allow me, however, to share a brief story as a way to suggest that “the law of Christ” involves love.<br />
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While vacationing with family in Little Falls, my siblings and I played in the backyard. I don’t recall the exact game, but think it was some form of tag. A small two-story playhouse or shed was next door. My sister Lenore was on the upper level and while reaching or throwing something, lost her balance and fell face-down to the ground. She suffered a serious injury and was taken to the hospital. Later, during a meal, her twin, Lynette, was so upset by her sister’s hurt that she became ill at the table. It struck me then, with an intensity of feeling that remains to this day, that Lynette loved Lenore so much that together they somehow shared this awful pain. One might chalk this up to internal distress or biological realities of being a twin. But I think it was more than that. What I witnessed was not a substitution in the sense of Williams, but a bearing of one another’s burden and the essence or fulfillment of the law, more in line with what Lewis felt and believed. As it is written: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind....Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”<br />
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In <i>A Grief Observed</i>, Lewis points to something (and Someone) beyond a faulty or suspect spiritual discipline. He guides us toward a reality many of us celebrate in this season of Advent, to a life that begins in anticipation and, ultimately, to something much greater. Lewis writes:<br />
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And then one babbles — ‘if only I could bear it, or the worst of it, or any of it, instead of her.’ But one can’t tell how serious that bid is, for nothing is staked on it. If it suddenly became a real possibility, then, for the first time, we should discover how seriously we had meant it. But is it ever allowed? It was allowed to One, we are told, and I find I can now believe again, that He has done vicariously whatever can be done. He replies to our babble, ‘you cannot and dare not. I could and dared.’</blockquote>
He could and dared. As I write these last words, listening to resurrection assurances embedded in the funeral service of President George H. W. Bush, these lyrics from an anthem float my way. May they bring you peace and hope and light during this special season of the year.<br />
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The King of love my Shepherd is, | Whose goodness faileth never, | I nothing lack if I am His | And He is mine forever.... Perverse and foolish oft I strayed, | But yet in love He sought me, | And on His shoulder gently laid, | And home, rejoicing, brought me....</blockquote>
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This is the text of a talk I gave on the evening of December 7, 2017 as part of the program for the annual holiday dinner of the <a href="http://www.norwegianexplorers.org/">Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota</a>, our Sherlockian scion society of the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/">Baker Street Irregulars</a>. Other papers were given that evening by Julie McKuras, former president of the Norwegian Explorers, and Steven Schier, Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, Emeritus at <a href="https://www.carleton.edu/">Carleton College</a>, Northfield, Minnesota.<br />
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By my count—and absent a current functioning online concordance of the Tales—there are ten references to “spy” in the Canon (<a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/sign/">The Sign of Four</a>, <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/miss/">Missing Three Quarter</a>, <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/seco/">Second Stain</a>, <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/houn/">Hound</a>, <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/vall/">Valley of Fear</a>, and <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/last/">His Last Bow</a>—which contains two instances) and another six for “spies” (<a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/redh/">Red Headed League</a>, <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/copp/">Copper Beeches</a>, <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/prio/">Priory School</a>, <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/seco/">Second Stain</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/bruc/">Bruce-Partington Plans</a>). Sixteen total occurrences out of a total of 667,793 Canonical words—according to Christian Peccei’s “<a href="https://www.christianpeccei.com/holmes/">A Statistical Analysis of the Sherlock Holmes Stories</a>." So why do I think “His Last Bow” is all about spies, spying, and the intelligence services of His Majesty’s government?<br />
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In short, because there was a need for such an operation. Mycroft Holmes knew of this need, as did his brother. Consider the opening words of “His Last Bow.” “It was nine o’clock at night upon the second of August–the most terrible August in the history of the world. One might have thought already that God’s curse hung heavy over a degenerate world, for there was an awesome hush and a feeling of vague expectancy in the sultry and stagnant air.”<br />
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We know from basic sources that the <a href="https://www.mi5.gov.uk/">Security Service</a> (MI5) and the <a href="https://www.sis.gov.uk/">Secret Intelligence Service</a> (MI6) mark their beginnings with the Secret Service Bureau, which was authorized and created in October 1909 by the War Office. William Melville (1850 – 1918) was an Irish law enforcement officer and the first chief of the British Secret Service Bureau. Melville concentrated on looking for German spies. After the outbreak of World War I, the Secret Service received more funding. Melville also recruited more personnel, especially after it was attached to the newly founded G-section which concentrated on investigating suspected agents. In addition, Melville founded a spy school opposite the War Office at Whitehall Court. Surely, in those orbits around Whitehall, Melville was known to, and in conversation with the Holmes brothers. And we can imagine, most certainly, that as Melville built the Bureau in the late days of 1909 or early 1910, looking for new recruits, he didn’t have to look far in acquiring the services of the country’s most well-known consulting detective. One wonders, especially after events chronicled in “His Last Bow,” if Holmes offered the occasional course at Melville’s school.<br />
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According to Rupert William Simon Allason, writing under his pen name Nigel West in <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6235217/MI5-To-defend-the-realm.html"><i>The Telegraph</i></a>, the “foundations [of MI5, the United Kingdom’s counter-intelligence agency] were inauspicious to say the least. The perceived intelligence disaster of the Boer War—here one wonders if Doyle’s book on the Boer War contributed to this perception—prompted the Committee of Imperial Defense to review the failure of the British Secret Service. However, it was discovered that no such organisation existed. So the CID recommended the creation of a new branch of government, the Secret Service Bureau, the origins of MI5.”<br />
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“The Security Service was headed by Captain Vernon Kell, a veteran of the Boxer rebellion in China (and an occasional Telegraph correspondent); while Director-General, he was known simply as "K". The Bureau launched with a tiny staff consisting of a single ex-Scotland Yard detective (Lestrade, perhaps?) and three clerks.” The first director of what would become MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, was Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming, who often dropped the Smith in routine communication. He typically signed correspondence with his initial C in green ink. This usage evolved as a code name, and has been adhered to by all subsequent directors of SIS when signing documents to retain anonymity.<br />
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The Secret Service Bureau was a joint initiative of the Admiralty and the War Office to control secret intelligence operations in the United Kingdom and overseas, particularly concentrating on the activities of the Imperial German government. There was a special interest from the Admiralty in knowing the maritime strength of the Imperial German Navy.<br />
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In this milieu, we are introduced in “His Last Bow” to two German agents: Von Bork and his “handler,” Baron Von Herling in the embassy. Their names and titles tell us that they are part of the German aristocracy. “A remarkable man this Von Bork—a man who could hardly be matched among all the devoted agents of the Kaiser. It was his talents which had first recommended him for the English mission, <i>the most important mission of all</i> (emphasis mine), but since he had taken it over those talents had become more and more manifest to the half-dozen people in the world who were really in touch with the truth.”<br />
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Von Bork and Von Herling display a mix of confidence and uneasiness, characteristics common to intelligence agents. Baron Von Herling, the chief secretary of the German legation, differs with his countryman in their views of the English. Von Bork thinks the English “not very hard to deceive….A more docile, simple folk could not be imagined.” Von Herling counters: “I don’t know about that….They have strange limits and one must learn to observe them. It is that surface simplicity of theirs which makes a trap for the stranger. One’s first impression is that they are entirely soft. Then one comes suddenly upon something very hard, and you know that you have reached the limit and must adapt yourself to the fact.”<br />
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Von Herling goes further, echoing and contrasting Britain’s own intelligence abilities, perceptions, and realities. “[W]e live in a utilitarian age. Honour is a mediaeval conception. Besides England is not ready. It is an inconceivable thing, but even our special war tax of fifty million, which one would think made our purpose as clear as if we had advertised it on the front page of the <i>Times</i>, has not roused these people from their slumbers….I can assure you that so far as the essentials go—the storage of munitions, the preparation for submarine attack, the arrangements for making high explosives—nothing is prepared. How, then, can England come in, especially when we have stirred her up such a devil’s brew of Irish civil war, window-breaking Furies, and God knows what to keep her thoughts at home.”<br />
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Similarly, Von Bork’s safe illumines both German and British intelligence interests and activities. “The light shone vividly into the opened safe, and the secretary of the embassy gazed with an absorbed interest at the rows of stuffed pigeon-holes with which it was furnished. Each pigeon-hole had its label, and his eyes as he glanced along them read a long series of such titles as “Fords,” “Harbour-defences,” “Aeroplanes,” “Ireland,” “Egypt,” “Portsmouth forts,” “The Channel,” “Rosythe,” and a score of others. Each compartment was bristling with papers and plans.” It took the German agent four years—1910 to 1914—to gather such information; the same period in which British intelligence services begin to bloom. “But the gem of my collection,” Von Bork continued, “is coming and there is the setting all ready for it.” He pointed to a space over which “Naval Signals” was printed.” Von Herling replied, “But you have a good dossier there already.” To which the agent responded: “Out of date and waste paper. The Admiralty in some way got the alarm and every code has been changed. It was a blow, Baron–the worst setback in my whole campaign. But thanks to my check-book and the good Altamont all will be well to-night.”<br />
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Little did they know, as we do who are familiar with the tale, the true identity of the Irish-American Altamont. Or Martha, the personification of Britannia. It is only in hindsight that we recognize Martha’s extinguishing of her lamp as a signal to her compatriot, in the same way we comprehend Altamont’s chauffeur, “a heavily built, elderly man with a gray moustache, settled down like one who resigns himself to a long vigil” as Dr. Watson. Did they learn their tradecraft at Melville’s school? Or was it the result of a long, rewarding companionship with the Master?<br />
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Altamont's mention of failures in Von Bork’s network: Jack James, Hollis, Steiner—especially the latter—shook the German’s confidence, even as he prepared his departure for Berlin.<br />
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Well, they’ve got him, that’s all. They raided his store last night, and he and his papers are all in Portsmouth jail. You’ll go off and he, poor devil, will have to stand the racket, and lucky if he gets off with his life. That’s why I want to get over the water as soon as you do…. My landlady down Fratton way had some inquiries, and when I heard of it I guessed it was time for me to hustle. But what I want to know, mister, is how the coppers know these things? Steiner is the fifth man you’ve lost since I signed on with you, and I know the name of the sixth if I don’t get a move on.</blockquote>
(Fratton—home to Altamont’s landlady—is a very interesting passing reference in the tale. At the time of this story it was an industrial area—now residential—in Portsmouth. If you ever find yourself in Portsmouth, I recommend a visit to St. Mary’s Church or the Carnegie Library, both on Fratton Road.) These failures, and Von Bork’s eventual demise, are linked with reality.<br />
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History tells us that together Kell, i.e. “K” and Smith-Cumming, i.e. “C” enjoyed great success in a combined operation of the security and intelligence services, resulting in “the arrest <i>in the opening days of the First World War</i> (emphasis mine) of the entire German spy ring in Britain, which conveniently centered on a barber's shop in north London. The arrest of Karl Gustav Ernst, his assistant Wilhelm Kronauer, and 21 of their network effectively eliminated what had been intended as a large enemy operation.” One is tempted to ask: were these arrests the results of Holmes’, Martha’s, and Watson’s activities?<br />
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Eleven of the spies were executed, as was Sir Roger Casement, found guilty of treason in 1916. <a href="http://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2014/01/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-adventure-of-the-executed-knight.html">Materials in the British Library</a> document Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s interest in Casement, including Doyle’s privately printed (in an edition of twelve copies) <i><a href="https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/arthur-conan-doyle-roger-casement">A Petition to the Prime Minister on behalf of Roger Casement</a></i>.<br />
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The security service's performance during the First World War was mixed, because it was unable to establish a network in Germany itself. Most of its results came from military and commercial intelligence collected through networks in neutral countries, occupied territories, and Russia. As Holmes noted near the end of the tale, “Things were going wrong, and no one could understand why they were going wrong. Agents were suspected or even caught, but there was evidence of some strong and secret central force. It was absolutely necessary to expose it. Strong pressure was brought upon me to look into the matter. It has cost me two years, Watson, but they have not been devoid of excitement.”<br />
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The excitement continued, and with it, another war. Russia, a conduit for British intelligence in this war and an uneasy ally in the next, was the focus of Holmes’ final observation in “His Last Bow.” In a prescient moment, Holmes knows what will happen—at least in its broad outlines—in Saint Petersburg in 1917 and in the years to follow. “There’s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast.” Given his experience and elevated expertise—even in retirement—one wonders if, on a later date, having survived the blast, Holmes might be found wandering the halls of MI5 or MI6, consulting with those in need.</div>
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Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-23620432746043239682018-08-31T11:21:00.001-05:002018-08-31T11:21:37.763-05:00Some Remarks on the Limited Editions Club<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sara Ludewig curated a lovely exhibit including some helpful insights about The Limited Editions Club and George Macy. Allow me to reiterate a few points that appear throughout this little chat:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• The Club was founded in 1929 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• George Macy’s mission was to produce beautiful, illustrated editions of classic pieces of literature. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• Each text was produced in 1,500 copies and signed by the illustrator </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• Macy hired the best illustrators, designers, and typographers to create original work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• Each title was printed from original type and engravings, and used fine papers and cover materials.
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In considering these and other points, I’d like to uncover a little bit more about The Limited Editions Club by examining an item that belonged to another collector—well known, I’m sure, to the Alcotts and to the MCBA community: Governor Elmer L. Andersen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Governor Andersen’s personal library came to the University of Minnesota in March 1999, housed in the library that bears his name. Within his collection are a number of works from The Limited Editions Club. What caught my eye were some of the earliest items: not the books themselves, but what we might call ancillary publications. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What particularly caught my eye is a prospectus, copyright 1929, for The Club. The cover is in marbled paper with the simple title, “The Limited Editions Club,” printed on a label and affixed to the board. Penciled inside on the flyleaf by an unknown bookseller is the note “Printed by D. B. Updike” and the price: $7.50. A back page, the colophon, reveals the same information: “Printed by D. B. Updike | The Merrymount Press | Boston.” Laid in the back of the book, and also printed on page 25, is an application to The Club, located at 551 Fifth Avenue in New York City. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Let us unpack this slender volume a little further—as a collector is wont to do. Already, at this point, there are a number of questions. Who marbled the paper? Who bound the prospectus? This is not noted in the colophon. But before addressing the prospectus, a bit more on the application. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The application and its address are intriguing. Unless street numbers have changed, 551 Fifth Avenue, New York is the site of the Fred F. French Building, designed by architects H. Douglas Ives and the firm of Sloan & Robertson. Erected in 1927, with a striking art deco façade and decorations and designs influenced by ancient Middle Eastern art—including the recently discovered tomb of King Tutankhamun—the French Building rose to the highest of heights on Fifth Avenue. Fred F. French was a real estate developer, who believed in spending money in the design and decoration of his buildings. Does this sound familiar? He “believed in spending money in the design and decoration of his buildings” in the same way George Macy thought about books. He named the building after himself and located his offices within. One wonders: did French and Macy know each other? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The application offered three payment options: 1) “to pay the postman ten dollars for each book upon its delivery,” 2) “to send you [the LEC] ten dollars for each book whenever you notify me that it is ready,” or 3) take “a discount of ten per cent., and enclose herewith my check for $108, for which the first twelve books will be sent me without further charge.” Ten dollars in 1929 is worth somewhere around $141 today. A pre-paid, discounted membership of $108 in 1929 would set one back by about $1,525 today. According to the Internal Revenue Service, the average net income for 1929 was $6,132.22 for all returns and $8,337.30 for taxable returns. So a full $120 membership in TLEC in 1929 represented somewhere between 1.4 and 1.9 percent of a person’s annual income—the equivalent of what we might pay if we bought coffee five times a week for a year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After providing a payment preference, name, address, and bank reference, the applicant was invited to refer others to The Club. “I think these people might want to apply,” the form read, “for membership in The Limited Editions Club.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’m not sure, had I been living back then (and doing what I do), what my chances of becoming a member might have been. In the <i>Prospectus</i>, Macy states that “[m]ore than twenty-five thousand people in the United States are actively engaged in the collection of limited editions. They want beautiful books in their homes, books so well designed and so well printed that they are a joy to own and to preserve. And they want to own books which always maintain, and usually increase, their values.” If my math and Macy’s numbers are correct, 1,500 members in the LEC represented 6% of the total number of limited edition collectors. I’m not sure where he got his 25,000, but there might be a clue in those individuals already identified in the <i>Prospectus</i> as enrolled members of the Club. This is how the <i>Prospectus</i> reads regarding “The Members:”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The membership of The Limited Editions Club is restricted to fifteen hundred. All of the books will be printed from the original type or the original wood-blocks and engravings made for the illustrations. When books are printed from these original processes, it is felt that only sixteen or seventeen hundred equally perfect impressions can be made. The logical limit for such a book is therefore an edition bordering upon this figure. For that reason, the books printed for this Club will be printed in editions of fifteen hundred; and for that reason (emphasis in the original), the membership is limited to that number. Each book in each edition will be numbered, and each member will receive the same number in each edition. These numbers are assigned to the members in the order in which their applications are received.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No attempt will be made to limit the membership to any one class of person. Prominent members of The Institute of Graphic Arts, such as John Clyde Oswald, Burton Emmett, William Reydel, are enrolled. Prominent members of The Grolier Club, such as Earnest Elmo Calkins, Melbert B. Cary, Jr., Parke Simmons, Mitchell Kennerly, are enrolled. Prominent book publishers, such as Alfred A. Knopf, F. N. Doubleday, M. Lincoln Schuster, Crosby Gaige, are enrolled. Booksellers and book collectors are in the membership. And hundreds of people who just love fine books.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What strikes one immediately is that it was the materiality of the printing process that determined membership size, not, as I immediately presumed, the population of limited edition collectors. Type, wood-blocks, and engravings—based, we assume, on the testimony of expert craftspeople—are good for sixteen or seventeen hundred perfect impressions. After that, the quality is diminished. Fifteen hundred, allowing for waste, is the perfect number. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Notice, too, the strategy Macy employed by seeding the membership with men—and they are all men—from the Institute of Graphic Arts, the Grolier Club, publishers, booksellers, and collectors. No attempt will be made to limit the membership to any one class, but one does wonder: how many women were members of TLEC? How many people of color? These are questions we can ask today. It is doubtful such questions came to mind in the late 1920s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A minor kerfuffle erupted on the pages of the New York Times regarding the value of limited editions. In a May 12, 1929 “Notes on Rare Books” column, the unnamed writer noted:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If the book-collecting game is to remain interesting to any large number of its adherents, it must be played within decent price limits. The inordinate rise in the money value of rare and early examples of English literature, manuscripts, association books and typographical masterpieces left many collectors bewildered.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This, no doubt, refers to such stellar results at auction as seen in the January 1929 Jerome Kern sale which realized over $1.7 million—about $24 million in today’s dollars. The unnamed writer continued: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Substitute fields of enjoyment had to be found for them [the collectors] and one noted the mad scramble for first editions of prominent living authors, the exploitation of the New England school of literature and books remembered from childhood, and, inevitably, the manufacture of artificial rarities in the form of limited editions….Publishers have grown careless in their definition of a limited edition: it may embrace as few as twenty-five or as many as 3,000 copies of a book….Sensitive collectors are outraged at the turn of affairs, but this new game continues merrily.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The drumbeat continued in a June 9 “Notes on Rare Books” column with these anonymous and pointed observations:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Will someone please start a Last Edition Club to reprint, once and for all, in an unlimited quantity all the hackneyed old favorites, so competently edited and so beautifully designed that no publisher will dare challenge them in the future with rival editions?...The book club idea has been sweeping the country and has finally burst upon the collecting game with a vengeance. Now we shall see the wholesale resurrection of classics and neo-classics and mediocre publications placed on an equal footing with works of real merit, while collectors are to be clubbed into acquiescence. Within the past few months at least three such organizations have sprung into existence, and we fear that they are but an advance guard….We must confess that we are not stirred to any great heights of enthusiasm by the prospectuses of these various enterprises….Personally, we feel that none of them offers the happy substitute for high-priced first and limited editions. With no desire to minimize their influence on a certain class of collectors, we think that none of them will be of long duration. They seem to us to represent a phase through which book collecting must pass, and having passed, may purge itself of much that is undesirable.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">George Macy read these columns—certainly the second one—and quickly responded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Your contributor,” Macy wrote, “says ‘the appeal is to collectors’; ‘it remains to be seen whether the clubs will sweep collectors off their feet.’ No attempt at all is being made to sweep ‘collectors’ off their feet! Nowhere in our literature is any such statement made; in the several advertisements we have inserted in The New York Times Book Review we have deliberately said that the books to be issued by The Limited Editions Club are intended for those who realize that ‘collectors’ items’ are beyond them, but who want to build libraries of beautiful books at moderate costs to themselves. It is obvious that your contributor thinks of ‘collectors’ as an esoteric group….Yet, when we decided to send out a prospectus announcing The Limited Editions Club, we gathered lists of those people who have actively indicated a desire to purchase limited editions. These lists totaled more than twenty-five thousand names! I should scarcely refer to this as an esoteric group.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I think this whole idea should indicate that we are not appealing to an esoteric group at all, even though that esoteric group may be included. Your contributor says, ‘confirmed collectors have been quick to register objection to the club idea.’ With whom? Certainly they have not registered such objections with us. At least two hundred of our present subscribers (names on request) are ‘confirmed collectors,’ some of them internationally famous as book collectors….But at least three hundred more are people who are just beginning to build libraries, to whom such a venture as ours is an altogether valuable help.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">From this we gather that by July 1929 Macy had at least five hundred subscribers to the Club. By early December the ranks were nearly filled. In a display advertisement in the <i>New York Times</i> of December 8, the Club offered “to that number of booklovers a final opportunity of acquiring the finest examples of modern book craftsmanship at a very low cost. Because of a reduction in the number of subscriptions entered for our English agents, The Limited Editions Club has 69 of its 1500 memberships open for subscription. This offers a final opportunity to a few discriminating readers to obtain the finest works of outstanding, living illustrators and typographers at the remarkably low price made possible by the plan of group subscription.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As we know from the exhibit, The Limited Editions Club published 548 titles between 1929 and 1985. It survived the Great Depression and during those grim 1930s employed a number of artists and illustrators. Many of these books increased in value. By most measures, one can call this a success. It was, to many, “an altogether valuable help.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The <i>Prospectus</i> raises a number of other questions. One wonders, for example, where those wood-blocks and engravings used in the production of LEC volumes are today. I’m sure they are as equally collectible as the volumes themselves. A quick search on eBay show 997 items for the term “Limited Editions Club.” A search on the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America website yielded 260 items, with some LEC titles listed for five figures. (But then, collectors and curators don’t like to discuss how much an item might be worth.) My quick searches for wood-blocks produced no results, but I’m certain they are out there, somewhere. I know of at least one block, alas, not used in a LEC production currently up for auction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are, of course, the printers and papermakers and binders and designers to consider. But that is probably a topic for another talk. Suffice it to say here that the Prospectus for The Limited Editions Club was produced by the American printer and typographical historian Daniel Berkeley Updike (died December 29, 1941), who was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 14, 1860. As a teenager, after leaving school, Updike assisted at a local library after the librarian had taken ill, a thought that warms my heart. About three years later, in early 1880, he moved to Boston, where he found work as an errand boy for the publishers Houghton, Mifflin and Company. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Updike was fascinated by book and print-making. While carrying proofs from the printers on Beacon Hill to the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Updike studied the pages and imagined what each page might look like coming from his own hand. He trained as a printer but it was typographic design that interested him even more. In 1893 he opened his own studio, designing type fonts. Three years later, in 1896, Updike founded the Merrymount Press. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In its list of the first twelve books, the <i>Prospectus</i> tells us who was involved as printer or designer. This list included designers and/or printers W. A. Kittredge, Frederic Warde (born in Wells, Minnesota), William Edwin Rudge, Allen Lewis, Norman T. A. Munder, Carl Purington Rollins, Daniel Berkeley Updike, John Henry Nash, W. A. Dwiggins, Thomas Maitland Cleland, and Frederic W. Goudy. Presses included The Lakeside Press in Chicago, the Harbor Press in New York, the Merrymount Press in Boston, the Marchbanks Press in New York, the Georgian Press in Westport, the Village Press in Marlborough, and the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Interestingly, only one woman appears in this list, in the eleventh volume, which was to be “printed by Mr. and Mrs. Goudy at The Village Press.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Finally, being a curator, I wondered about the archives of The Limited Editions Club. I’m curious about that list of names George Macy was so eager to share with the correspondent for the <i>Times</i>, or for more information about the printers, designers, papermakers, and binders. Also, I’d like to know which edition numbers were assigned to each member. Who always received Copy 1 or Copy 100 of each edition? I think it would be very interesting, if we don’t know already, the provenance of volumes on display today, along with others in the Alcott collection. It would be fascinating to know who owned these volumes and when. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And where are the archives? Happily, they are under the excellent stewardship of colleagues at the University of Texas in Austin. The archives of the George Macy Companies, including both the Limited Editions Club and The Heritage Press, were purchased by the Harry Ransom Center in 1970. The archive includes the original art works that were used in Limited Editions Club publications and the few that were used for The Heritage Press. The art files contain 6,731 items by over 100 artists, and include original watercolors; pen and ink, wash, and charcoal drawings; colored overlays; proofs; original photographs; and photographic negatives. I think a field trip at some future date might be in order. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Thank you for this opportunity to reflect a bit on The Limited Editions Club, the legacy of James and Marilyn Alcott, and the continuing work of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Limited Editions Club published 548 titles between the years 1929 and 1985. Upon George Macy’s death in 1956 his wife, Helen Macy, took control of the business. In 1970, the Limited Editions Club was sold along with the rest of the Heritage Press to the Boise Cascade Corporation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">George Macy’s love of books and commitment to the art of the book is visible in the large variety of publications by the Limited Editions Club. All of the Limited Edition Club books on display were once held in the private library of James and Marilynn Alcott and are now a part of MCBA’s collection. James Alcott was the Vice President of Cowles Media Company and was a founding member of MCBA, serving as the first board president. The books featured here are demonstrative of the art found within the Limited Editions Club.
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Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-66683272763124920002018-08-30T14:03:00.000-05:002018-08-31T10:29:56.798-05:00A List to Remind Me<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none;">
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Here's an incomplete list of things I've written or performed over the past three decades that have been published in the traditionally understood sense of the word, or as the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i> defines it: "To make generally accessible or available for acceptance or use (a work of art, information, etc.); to present to or before the public; spec. to make public (news, research findings, etc.) through the medium of print or the Internet." I'll come back and add more as I dig them out from my files. If I'm feeling particularly energetic, I may add more hyperlinks.</div>
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I'm posting this as a reminder to myself, as an act of self-care: the last three decades have seen a little bit of my writing and book-making, if not always the kind frequently demanded by or desired in the academy. The list does not include most of the 400+ posts I've made on this blog (with the exception of a few more noteworthy pieces) nor does it include the 150+ personal essays I've written and sent to close friends under the running title "Bulletin of the International High Coffee Society."<br />
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I write because I need to write.<br />
I write to refine my craft.<br />
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2018) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2018, Vol.<i> </i>22
(2): 5, 7. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2018) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2018, Vol.<i> </i>22
(1): 5. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2018) “The Posnansky Auction,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2018, Vol.<i> </i>22
(1): 1, 6, 8. NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2018) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2018/01/ridgway-award-winners-2/">Read This
Book! Ridgway Award Winners</a></span>.” University of Minnesota Libraries, posted
January 26. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 2017, Vol.<i> </i>21
(4): 5. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2017/12/books-give-2017/">Read This Book!
Books to Give-Part 3</a></span>.” University of Minnesota Libraries, posted
December 18. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “Theofanis G. Stavrou: Bookman,” in <i>Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth:
Essays in Honor of Theofanis G. Stavrou</i> (Bloomington: Slavica
Publishers/Indiana University). BOOK CHAPTER.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2017, Vol.<i> </i>21
(3): 5. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “A Note from the Podium,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER
2017, Vol.<i> </i>21 (3): 3, 7. NEWSLETTER
ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2017, Vol.<i> </i>21
(2): 5, 7. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2017, Vol.<i> </i>21
(1): 5. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “The Adventure of the Greater Light,” book
chapter/essay in <i>On Being a Sherlockian</i>.
(Cabin John, MD: Wildside Press). BOOK CHAPTER.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) Johnson, Timothy Jerome, and Cheryll
Lynne Fong. “The Expanding Universe of Sherlockian Fandom and Archival
Collections.” In “Sherlock Holmes Fandom, Sherlockiana, and the Great Game,”
edited by Betsy Rosenblatt and Roberta Pearson, <i>Transformative Works and Cultures</i>, no. 23. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.0792">http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.0792</a></span>.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “Whack-a-Mole, Swedish Style.” Review,
with Cheryll Fong, of Mattias Boström’s From Holmes to Sherlock (New York:
Grove Atlantic/Mysterious Press, 2017) posted on <i>NetGalley</i> and <i>Goodreads</i>.
(95% contribution as author). BOOK REVIEW.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2017/02/read-book-short-stories/">Read This
Book! Short Stories</a></span>.” University of Minnesota Libraries, posted
February 22. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://umbookworm.blogspot.com/2017/02/regarding-sherlock.html">Regarding
Sherlock</a></span>.” Review of British Broadcasting Corporation’s “Sherlock”
television series, seasons 1-4, posted on my personal blog, “Special and Rare
on a Stick,” February 16. TELEVISION SHOW REVIEW.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2017/02/books-puppies-critical-thinking/">Read
This Book! Books about Puppies, Critical Thinking</a></span>.” University of
Minnesota Libraries, posted February 8. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2016/11/balloons-over-broadway/">Secrets of
the Archives: Balloons Over Broadway</a></span>.” University of Minnesota
Libraries, posted February 7. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2017) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2017/01/ridgway-award-winners/">Read This
Book! Ridgway Award Winners</a></span>.” University of Minnesota Libraries,
posted January 4. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 2016, Vol.<i> </i>20
(4): 5. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “Against His Wishes,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER
2016, Vol.<i> </i>20 (4): 1, 6-7. NEWSLETTER
ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2016/12/books-give-volume-2-sherlock-holmes/">Read
This Book! Books to Give, Volume 2: Sherlock Holmes</a></span>.” University of
Minnesota Libraries, posted December 12. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2016, Vol.<i> </i>20
(3): 5. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2016/09/murder-42nd-street-library/">Read
This Book! Murder at the 42nd Street Library</a></span>.” University of
Minnesota Libraries, posted September 23. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2016/08/raina-telgemeier-book-launch/">Read
This Book! Raina Telgemeier to launch 'Ghosts' at University of Minnesota</a></span>.”
University of Minnesota Libraries, posted August 30. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) Julie McKuras; Timothy Johnson; Ray
Riethmeier; Phillip Bergem, editors. <i>The
Missing Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes</i> (Minneapolis: Norwegian Explorers
of Minnesota). (25% contribution; selection of stories; editorial review). BOOK
CO-EDITOR.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2016/08/watch-video-preview-sherlock-holmes-exhibit/">The
Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes</a></span>.” University of Minnesota
Libraries, exhibit preview, posted August 4. ONLINE VIDEO.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://umbookworm.blogspot.com/2016/07/stew-pot-of-soul-some-professional.html">Stew
Pot of the Soul: Some Professional, Political, and Personal Reflections</a></span>.”
Review and reflection on the 2016 Rare Books and Manuscripts Section annual
conference, posted on my personal blog, “Special and Rare on a Stick,” July 29.
CONFERENCE REVIEW.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqLhiv15mbA">A conversation with John
Randle of Whittington Press</a></span>.” University of Minnesota Libraries,
posted July 22. ONLINE VIDEO.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2016, Vol.<i> </i>20
(2): 5. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “<a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2016/06/midwives-book-1671/">Secrets of the
Archives: The Midwives Book from 1671</a>.” University of Minnesota Libraries,
posted June 6. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2016) “<a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2016/04/computing-history-social-activism/">Secrets
of the Archives: Computing History and Social Activism</a>.” University of
Minnesota Libraries, posted April 28. ONLINE VIDEO SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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of the Archives: Comics used to promote social welfare messages</a>.” Posted
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2015) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
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(3): 5. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2015) “April Fool’s Day,”<i> Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2015,
Vol.<i> </i>19 (2): 7-8. NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2015, Vol.<i> </i>19
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(1): 5. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2015) “The Adventure of Sherlock Seattle,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2015, Vol.<i> </i>19
(1): 1, 6. NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2014) “An Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2014) “Echoes of Mr. Holmes,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER
2014, Vol.<i> </i>18 (4): 1, 8, 10-11.
NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(2014) “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2014/11/sabbatical-musings/">Sabbatical
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1, 6- 7. NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department blog, “Primary
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2013, Vol.<i> </i>17 (3): 10. NEWSLETTER
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Archives and Special Collections Department blog, “Primary Sourcery,” posted
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(2): 1, 6, 8. NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(3): 1, 6. NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(2): 5. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“More Than a ‘Washed-up Has-Been’: Textual Aspects of the Holmes Icon.”
Conference paper presented at Arthur Conan Doyle Symposium, University of
Regina, November. Available on University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy.
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2008, Vol. 12 (3): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2008, Vol. 12 (2): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2008, Vol. 12 (1): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tim
Johnson and Gary Thaden. “Sherlock Solo,” <i>Friends
of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2008, Vol. 12 (1): 1,
6. NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 2007, Vol. 11 (4): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“My
Name Figures in No Newspaper,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2007, Vol. 11 (3): 7.
NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2007, Vol. 11 (2): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2007, Vol. 11 (1): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Mr.
Holmes Goes to Savannah,” <i>Friends of the
Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2007, Vol. 11 (1): 1, 6-8.
NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 2006, Vol. 10 (4): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Department of Special Collections and Rare Books,” essay in <i>Cabinet of Curiosities: Mark Dion and the
University as Installation</i> (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press),
91. BOOK CHAPTER.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Adventure of the Unopened Box: Building the Sherlock Holmes Collections at
the University of Minnesota Libraries,” in <i>Managing
the Mystery Collection: From Creation to Consumption</i> (Binghamton, NY: The
Haworth Information Press), 121-141. Previously published in 2004 peer-reviewed
journal. BOOK CHAPTER.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2006, Vol. 10 (3): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Curiosity
Camp,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes
Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2006, Vol. 10 (3): 2, 7. NEWSLETTER
ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i> JUNE 2006, Vol. 10 (2): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Allen
Mackler and His Bequest,” <i>Friends of the
Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i> JUNE 2006, Vol. 10 (2): 1, 6.
NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i> MARCH 2006, Vol. 10 (1): 5.
NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i> DECEMBER 2005, Vol. 9 (4): 7.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i> SEPTEMBER 2005, Vol. 9 (3): 6-8.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“New
Conan Doyle Letters Arrive in Minnesota,” <i>Friends
of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2005, Vol. 9 (3):
1, 7. NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2005, Vol. 9 (2): 7.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2005, Vol. 9 (1): 7-8.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 2004, Vol. 8 (4): 6.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Adventure of the Unopened Box: Building the Sherlock Holmes Collections at
the University of Minnesota Libraries,” <i>Collection
Management</i> 29 (3/4): 121-141. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2004, Vol. 8 (3): 4.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2004, Vol. 8 (2): 7.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2004, Vol. 8 (1): 7.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 2003, Vol. 7 (4): 8.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2003, Vol. 7 (3): 8.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2003, Vol. 7 (2): 8.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2003, Vol. 7 (1): 8.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 2002, Vol. 6 (4): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2002, Vol. 6 (3): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2002, Vol. 6 (2): 9.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Making It to the Major Leagues: Career Movement Between Library and Archival
Professions and from Small College to Large University Libraries,” <i>Library Trends</i>, 50 (4) Spring: 614-630.
NON-PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2002, Vol. 6 (1): 5. NEWSLETTER
COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 2001, Vol. 5 (4): 8.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2001, Vol. 5 (3): 9.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2001, Vol. 5 (2): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Cover,” <i>Libraries & Culture</i>,
36 (2) Spring: 367-371. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->141.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(2001)
“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2001, Vol. 5 (1): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 2000, Vol. 4 (4): 4.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 2000, Vol. 4 (3): 6,
7. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->144.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(2000)
“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, JUNE 2000, Vol. 4 (2): 5, 8.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->145.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(2000)
Review of Hawkinson, Zenos E., <i>Anatomy of
the Pilgrim Experience: Reflections On Being a Covenanter</i>. Edited by Philip
J. Anderson and David E. Hawkinson. (Chicago: Covenant Publications, 2000) in <i>The Covenant Companion</i>, June. BOOK
REVIEW.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->146.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(2000)
“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 2000, Vol. 4 (1): 4, 8.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->147.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1999)
“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 1999, Vol. 3 (4): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Universal Sherlock Holmes</i>.
Originally published in hardcopy by Ronald De Wall. Coded and converted to
electronic text with author’s and publisher’s permission by Timothy J. Johnson.
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries). URL: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/holmes/useful-bibliographies">https://www.lib.umn.edu/holmes/useful-bibliographies</a></span>.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->149.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1999)
“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER 1999, Vol. 3 (3): 5.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->150.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1999)
Video. <i>Minnesota's Resource Treasures,
Special Library Collections. University of Minnesota Special Collections,
Sherlock Holmes Collections</i> (St. Paul: Metronet). 27:20 minutes. TELEVISION
SERIES.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->151.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1999)
Index and design/layout in <i>On the Left in
America: Memoirs of the Scandinavian-American Labor Movement</i> (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press). 238 pp. BOOK PRODUCTION AND INDEX.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, JUNE 1999, Vol. 3 (2): 5-6.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->153.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1999)
“An
Update from the Collections,” <i>Friends of
the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, MARCH 1999, Vol. 3 (1): 4.
NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->154.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1998)
“Collections
Update,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes
Collections Newsletter</i>, DECEMBER 1998, Vol. 2 (4): 3. NEWSLETTER COLUMN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->155.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1998)
“Meet
the New Curator of Special Collections: Timothy Johnson,” <i>Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter</i>, SEPTEMBER
1998, Vol. 2 (3): 1-4. NEWSLETTER ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->156.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1995)
Index in Stephen R. Graham, <i>Cosmos in the
Chaos: Philip Schaff’s Interpretation of 19th Century American Religion</i>
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans), 256-266. BOOK INDEX.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->157.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1995)
Index and design/layout in <i>Scandinavian
Immigrants and Education in North America </i>(Chicago: Swedish-American
Historical Society). 222 pp. BOOK PRODUCTION AND INDEX.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->158.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1994)
“Temptation and Confession: My Knowledge About and Of C. S. Lewis,” <i>Piestisten</i> Vol. IX(3) Fall: 8-9.
NON-PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Independent Order of Svithiod: A Swedish-American Lodge,” in <i>Swedish American Life in Chicago: Cultural
and Urban Aspects of an Immigrant People</i> (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press), 343-363. BOOK CHAPTER.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Index in <i>Swedish American Life in
Chicago: Cultural and Urban Aspects of an Immigrant People</i> (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press), 369-394. BOOK INDEX.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->161.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1992)
“Bibliography: The Published and Unpublished Writings of Karl A. Olsson,” in <i>Amicus Dei: Essays on Faith and Friendship</i>,
edited by Philip J. Anderson (Chicago: Covenant Publications), 215-293. BOOK
CHAPTER.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->162.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1992)
“Swedish-American Genealogy and the Archives at North Park College,” <i>Illinois Libraries</i> 74 (5) November:
446-448. NON-PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->163.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1990)
Review of Sherry Butcher-Younghans, <i>The
American Swedish Institute: A Living Tradition</i>, in <i>Swedish-American Historical Quarterly</i>, 41 (3) July: 177-178. BOOK
REVIEW.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->164.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1991)
“Archives Pushes Past into Present,” <i>Accent
Scandinavia</i> 2 Winter/Spring: 3. NON-PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->165.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1989)
“Swedish-American Life in Chicago, 1838-1988: Report on a Conference Held
October 13-15, 1988 At North Park College, Chicago,” <i>Origins, A Newsletter of the Local & Family History Section and the
Family & Community History Center at The Newberry Library</i> 6 (1)
December: 8-10. NON-PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“A Story of No Small Importance,” <i>The
North Parker</i> Spring/Summer: 12-13. NON-PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->167.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->(1987)
“The Covenant Archives and Historical Library,” <i>Illinois Libraries</i> 69 October: 574-75. NON-PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL
ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Swedish-American Archives of Greater Chicago,” <i>Illinois Libraries</i> 69 October: 600-01. NON-PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL
ARTICLE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>A Directory of College and Research
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<i>Guidelines for Local Covenant Church
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Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-87691684217919743102018-08-11T17:46:00.000-05:002018-08-11T17:47:00.687-05:00A Spark in the Dark Hollow of My Hand<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">About ten months ago, a brief dispatch and invitation
landed in my in-box from some very good people residing in the heartland. I
was, and am, touched that they would think of me as one to deliver a keynote
address to celebrate the gift of a new collection to the Saint Louis Public
Library. So, before I go any further, I want to thank the planning committee
for “Holmes in the Heartland,” and ask that they stand and be recognized: Rob
Nunn, Stacey Bregenzer, Joe Eckrich, Mary Schroeder, Randy Getz, Tassy Hayden,
Paul Schroeder, and Nellie Brown. Thank you for inviting me to be a part of
this celebration, and for all you’ve already done to make it such a success!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We know, from <i>The
Sign of Four</i>, that Holmes’ use of a recently published gazetteer—volumes he
viewed “as the very latest authority,”—would have made him cognizant of Native
American history. Thus, I’m certain he would appreciate a notice that this
weekend’s events take place on the ancestral lands of the Chickasaw, Miami,
Osage, Illinois, Ioway, Missouria, Otoe, and Quapaw peoples. It is good for us
to remember and respect those who came before us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Before I dive into that pool that makes up the balance of
my remarks, I want to acknowledge a very special individual, beloved by you in
St. Louis, the Heartland, and by many around the world: the late Gordon Speck.
Gordon was a very good friend of the University of Minnesota, a frequent
attendee at our conferences, and a material supporter of the Collections. I
miss him greatly, and wish to dedicate this talk to the memory of this good and
gentle man. Peace to his memory. May we keep it forever green.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In my early conversations with the planning committee, I
was invited to speak on the importance of library collections. This was later
refined by the theme for this conference, “A Curious Collection,” and the
freedom to take this theme whichever way I desired for my talk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Let me begin, then, where tradition dictates all such
ramblings should begin: with a quotation from the Canon. “A curious
collection,” comes near the beginning of “The Musgrave Ritual.” Here Dr. Watson
makes an authorial confession that the Master’s “papers were my great crux” and
that Holmes “had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were
connected with his past cases.” At the same time, the good doctor observed that
“it was only once in every year or two that he [Holmes] would muster energy to
docket and arrange them.” As a curator, I might observe that this is hardly the
way to run a library or archive. True, we have our own backlogs of collections
in need of processing, arrangement, and description. Some of you know this only
too well. But still, I shudder to think about all these papers piled about the
Baker Street flat “until,” as Watson informs us, “every corner of the room was
stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and
which could not be put away save by their owner.” To his credit, Watson “ventured
to suggest to [Holmes] that, as he had finished pasting extracts into his
common-place book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a
little more habitable.” It was a perfect proposal, one that any archivist would
gladly accept.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If only we curators might do what they did, by the comfort
of a warm fire on a cold winter’s night, squatting upon a stool, papers spread
across the floor, as Watson’s narrative portrays. But fire codes and
professional practice don’t allow for such a pleasing ambience in which to
peruse personal papers. We stick to well-lighted rooms and sturdy tables. We do
find such perusal extremely interesting and informative as we process a
collection, so I’m somewhat at odds with Holmes as he alights from his chair
and “with a rather rueful face” sets “off to his bedroom, from which he
returned presently pulling a large tin box behind him.” It is clearly a task
he’d rather put aside. But I’ll thank him for storing at least some of his
papers in the bedroom, in a somewhat fire retardant container, as opposed to
the stacks of odd-sized boxes found in the many attics and basements I’ve
ventured into on my various adventures in retrieving our cultural heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Like Holmes and Watson, we’ll ignore the piles of papers
surrounding us at 221B, and concentrate on the bundles in front of us. One
almost wants to offer Watson a handkerchief, for all the drooling he’ll do as
Holmes lifts bundle after red-taped bundle from this curious (and curiously spacious)
tin box. In our case, the bundles are this gloriously new St. Louis Sherlockian
Research Library and the container is the St. Louis Public Library Rare Books
Room. Does anyone wish for a handkerchief?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Before taking a brief peek at the Sherlockian Research
Collection, I want to congratulate and celebrate those who made it possible.
Dr. Mary Schroeder, her husband Art, and members of The Practical Preservers of
Sherlockiana began their adventure in Lebanon, Illinois. Many of you know this
“origin” story and played a role in it, in Illinois and later here in St. Louis.
What I wish to do as a visitor and fellow practitioner is to lift you up in
recognition and say “well done!” I can imagine what joy you had in the hunt for
items, of celebrating each new addition to the collection, and of your unceasing
view toward the future. This was a collection for your enjoyment and use, for
sure, but you forever remembered those who would come after you, those future
generations of students and faculty and interested readers. You planted a seed,
confident that others would water those seeds and delight in the harvest. So
again I say, “Well done!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At the same time, it is probably a good and proper time to
acknowledge your sorrow, unspoken though it may be. Sorrow for those moments at
Illinois’ first established institution of higher education when you saw your
collection, and all the efforts it took to create it, pushed aside in the
library for newer materials, and relegated to some backroom shelves, far from
view. Sorrow in the passing of friends, now beyond the Reichenbach, who helped
make your dream a reality. Sorrow in wondering if anyone in the future might,
or might not, be able to taste the fruits of your labors, or to put it in terms
a Musgrave might ponder: to understand the ritual. Sorrow in the fact that my
professional colleagues at another institution of higher education would not,
or could not offer the kind of service and care such a collection deserves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And yet, you did what Sherlockians always do. You kept
forever green the memory of the Master. The game was still afoot. You did not
give into despair, did not lose hope. Instead, you found a new home for this
special collection. And so I say to you, staff members and friends of the St.
Louis Public Library, “Well done, and Thank You!” Thank you for opening your
doors and giving a home to the Sherlockian Research Collection in the Rare Books
& Manuscripts Room. Thank you for skillfully stewarding this collection,
for cataloging it, conserving it, promoting it, and doing all those things that
libraries and library staff are good at in making such a collection accessible
and valued by the community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As a librarian (and Sherlockian), I can’t resist
investigating another library’s catalog. A simple search in the St. Louis
catalog using the keyword “Sherlock” reveals 576 item groups. I looked through
each of those 576 groups. It is an impressive and welcoming group of materials
you’ve gathered around Mr. Holmes, not only in the Rare Books collection, but
in other areas of your collections as well. Here, indeed, is a selection of
materials both broad and deep that promise worthy support for any research
endeavor, or hours of pleasurable reading, viewing, or listening. I know you
celebrated the dedication of the St. Louis Sherlockian Research Collection in
February. I want to help keep that celebration going.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[At this point I presented the St. Louis folks with three volumes produced in Minnesota, to be added to their collection: the Norwegian Explorers Omnibus, The Missing Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes: The Detective and the Collector--Essays on the John Bennett Shaw Collection. I also invited them to send us their "want list" with the promise that the Minnesota Sherlock Holmes Collections would try to fill in some of their gaps from our duplicates.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As they sat and pondered the curious tin box in “The
Musgrave Ritual,” Holmes, “with mischievous eyes,” observed “that if you knew
all that I had in this box you would ask me to pull some [cases] out instead of
putting others in.” I have been the curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collections
at the University of Minnesota for twenty years. Less mischievously than
Holmes, but with a point or two in mind, and in the same “tender, caressing
sort of way” as the Master, allow me to pull out a few adventures from my own box
of memories, this one not made of tin, but an oaken chest, richly carved with
Norwegian runes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The first tale might be entitled, “The Adventure of the
Unexpected Filming.” It began within the first few months of my career at
Minnesota. I’d already survived my first Sherlockian conference, “Founders’
Footprints,” a fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Norwegian Explorers of
Minnesota held in early August 1998. Now, as snows flew and we readied
ourselves to open the beautiful and state-of-the art Elmer L. Andersen Library,
I found myself on the end of a media request from our local public television
station that made me a bit nervous. The station broadcast a weekly news
program, “NewsNight Minnesota,” which aired on Friday evening. Ever looking for
a story, as news organizations are wont to do, they were interested in getting
a glimpse of the new library, but particularly, to find out about the Sherlock
Holmes Collections. I’d been on the job about a year and was still
investigating the Collections. I did not consider myself a Sherlockian. I’d
read the Canon, watched Basil Rathbone as a kid, and considered myself a Jeremy
Brett fan. But that was it. I was a babe in the woods. Experiencing a bit of
“imposture syndrome” — that “psychological pattern in which an individual
doubts their accomplishments, and has a persistent internalized fear of being
exposed as a ‘fraud,’” I called out for help from someone who has become a dear
friend: Julie McKuras, long-time editor of the Collections newsletter, and at
that particular moment in time, president of our local scion society, The
Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Innocently, I asked Julie if she’d be present during the
interview with Ken Stone, one of the NewsNight anchors. I needed a backstop,
someone who would correct me if I misspoke, and someone who, frankly, knew a
lot more about the world of Holmes than I did. In my mind, she was the perfect
choice. With some hesitation, she agreed to come to the library on the day of filming,
on one condition: that she would not appear in front of the camera. I readily
and eagerly agreed and set to work preparing for the interview. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When Ken and his cameraman arrived, it quickly became clear
that they wished to have Julie on screen, regardless of her protestations. I do
not recall how much of a fight she put up, but in the end—and out of the
kindness of her heart—she realized that I really could use some help. Ken
wanted an opening shot of the two of us walking down the long drive that leads
to the massive doors below the Mississippi River bluff that are the entrance to
the Andersen Library underground caverns. The cameraman set his tripod above
the drive to capture our stroll down to the doors. Queued by Ken, Julie and I
slowly made our way down the drive, snowflakes dancing in the air above. As we
neared the door, I turned to Julie and uttered a phrase that has entered our
collective memory: “Well, at least your hair looks nice.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her hair really did look nice! And she was perfect on camera.
The takeaway from this adventure, for me, was this: Mr. Holmes and Dr.
Watson—and library collections about them—create bonds for life. There is no
friendship like a Sherlockian friendship. Treasure them for all they are worth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[If you wish, you can view our performance online. It is
preserved in the Twin Cities Public Broadcasting Service video archive—TPT as
the channel is known to us locally. Broadcast on February 5, 2001 according to
the website (I think the date is incorrect, and that it really occurred in
early 2000, given that the Hubbs family gift referred to in the broadcast was
given in December 1999), you can find the program segment “It Is Elementary” archive
link <a href="http://www.mnvideovault.org/index.php?id=8231&select_index=4&popup=yes">here</a>.]
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My second adventure, lovingly lifted from my oaken chest,
might be entitled “The Adventure of the Young Schoolboy.” Social media, my
calendar, and a December 2008 issue of the Collections newsletter inform me
that we can place this particular tale in the autumn of 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On October 24<sup>th</sup> of that year I received an
e-mail note from Mary Gallagher that began: “Hello, I am writing with interest
in making an appointment to visit the Sherlock Holmes collection. My son, who
is seven, is a devoted fan of Sherlock Holmes and he would love to visit the
collection with me.” After a few more email exchanges, we settled on a Saturday
morning in late November.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our young schoolboy was probably at a height of four feet
something. He arrived for the tour in the company of his father and
grandfather. This was Soren, our schoolboy, in costume, complete with
deerstalker and Inverness cape. I got a hint, very early on, of how sharp Soren
was and how knowledgeable he was of the stories. I had barely opened a volume
of the <i>Strand</i> when Soren exclaimed
(having seen one of the Paget illustrations) “that’s from ‘The Musgrave
Ritual’” (which, indeed, it was). I discovered that Soren’s grandfather had a copy
of all the stories as they originally appeared in the <i>Strand</i>, and that this was Soren’s entree into the world of Holmes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After viewing some of our treasures from the
Collections—each devoured and commented on by Soren—we walked over to Wilson
Library to see the late Allen Mackler’s recreation of the 221B Sitting Room, a
gift we received from Allen’s estate. Soren
was completely energized by the sight of the Sitting Room. Every object
fascinated him, from flasks and bottles on the chemical table, to the gasogene
tucked in a corner, to volumes on each bookcase. He wanted to know how each
item was acquired and what linked each piece with a Canonical tale. Although,
on this latter point, it was clear to me—based on our earlier viewing of items
from the Collections—that he knew the stories inside and out. He was a dynamo,
eating and breathing the stories at every moment possible. Spying cigars in the
coal scuttle, or correspondence jackknifed to the mantle, or shag tobacco in a
Persian slipper was child’s play to him. Each new discovery brought further
delight. Each view of the room recalled another adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was charmed by Soren. The words of thanks I received from
him and his parents came from the bottom of their hearts. I was thrilled to be
a part of his introduction to our little corner of the Sherlockian universe. He
was welcomed into the community. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And then, as happens in life, I moved on to other things. November
melted into April and I busied myself with various summer projects and steadied
myself for the looming academic year—while sneaking a final few days of
vacation. And then Soren’s mother called.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Soren, she explained on the phone, wished to visit the
Sitting Room again. He wanted to “psych” himself up for the coming school year,
and this was the best way he knew how to do it. Would I be so kind as to show
him the Sitting Room, if I had some time? The answer to her question was an
emphatic “yes!” Of course, I’d be delighted to show Soren the Sitting Room! And
so, on a warm August day, I accompanied Soren from Andersen Library to the
Sitting Room. As with his earlier visit, he was in costume. This time he wore City
attire. Imagine Jeremy Brett from early episodes in the series; tie, coat, and
waistcoat. This was a new incarnation rendered perfectly by Soren. You should
have seen the looks on student and staff faces as we made our way through the
halls toward the library. He was the cutest thing this side of Whitehall. (He’d
probably blush now if he heard my description.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As before, the Sitting Room intrigued him. He felt
inspiration through each item and by the energy and knowledge employed by Allen
Mackler years earlier in its construction. Somewhere in the family archives are
pictures from the day, and from his earlier visit. (You can see some of these
in the December 2008 Collections newsletter.) I know Soren treasures those
photographs as much as I treasure memories from those two very special visits. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He is now much taller than me, grown wise in
years—especially those spent during a two year sojourn in Switzerland with his
family. I have many things to cherish from my friendship with Soren, but here’s
one especially appropriate for today: libraries—and the collections they
hold—inspire us. They move us to new heights, provoke further thoughts, and
stimulate us to action. Soren has an open invitation, as do you, to return to
libraries and their special collections again and again. It is an invitation
worth accepting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So, a university vice president walks into a bar. No, it’s
not the opening line to a joke, but, rather, to my last tale, my third
adventure. I am somewhat reluctant to share this with you, for it is precious
to me. Not reluctant or precious the way Gollum was in <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> (to name another literary universe I
sometimes inhabit), but in the sense of something so dear, so revelatory, that
to bring it to light in some way diminishes its wonder or power. For it is a
powerful story. Call it The Adventure of a Profound Encounter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So, a university vice president walks into a bar. This
particular vice president—we’ll call him Bob—was acquainted, for whatever
reason, with a bartender by the name of Jim at one of our campus hotels. (Actually,
the site of our last triennial conferences.) Over the course of conversation,
no doubt aided by drink, vice president Bob learned from bartender Jim of Jim’s
granddaughter’s interest in Sherlock Holmes. Her name is Haley and at the time
of this story was fifteen years old. Bob, being the good administrator he was,
knew about the Sherlock Holmes Collections in the University Libraries and
before too long, put me in contact with Grandpa Jim to arrange a tour of the
Collections for his granddaughter, Haley.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I discovered that Jim cared deeply for his granddaughter
and her education, and that Haley lived and breathed Sherlock Holmes. We set a Saturday
in May as our date for the tour. Because Jim cared so deeply for his
granddaughter, I wanted to make this a special day for both of them. Little did
I know, or could imagine, how special the day would become.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All was ready on that Saturday afternoon when Jim, Haley,
and her two friends, Rebecca and Danielle, arrived in the midst of a rain
shower. I hadn’t anticipated Haley’s two friends so their appearance threw me
off a bit. As we introduced ourselves, I found out that all three girls were in
the ninth grade. A little voice whispered, as if in warning, inside my head:
“remember what you were like in ninth grade.” It was clear that these girls were
good friends and enjoyed each other’s company, although, to my mind, Rebecca
and Danielle were a bit merciless in their teasing Haley. They kept on and on
about how much Haley was “in” to Sherlock, mocking her while at the same time
expressing their own disinterest and bewilderment. They didn’t know, and were
mystified, why someone could get so excited about a literary character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I took them first to our suite and then to the reading
room, where we had Dorothy Rowe Shaw’s miniature replica of the 221B London
flat on display, along with some Sherlockian figurines, artwork, and reference
books. Haley immediately gravitated to the figurines and, camera in hand
(having first asked permission) began to take pictures. Rebecca and Danielle continued
their playful banter, but their kidding didn’t seem to matter too much to
Haley. In her gracefulness, she wanted her friends to share in the excitement. Haley
then discovered some of the Holmes reference and coffee table books and, paging
through them, told her friends about the significance of this or that item as seen
on each page. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From there we moved to the 221B miniature, studying the
intricacies of its design and creation, while Haley drew links between items in
each room and their Canonical appearance. Her depth of knowledge—the imprint
that Doyle’s sixty stories made on her own being—deeply impressed me. More
books and artwork followed, and with each one, a little more conversation and
observation. Some Frederic Dorr Steele drawings momentarily stunned Haley. But
she quickly rebounded and spoke of both him and his <i>Collier’s</i> covers in a knowledgeable fashion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From there we moved into a more rarified atmosphere. While
Haley sat down at a nearby table, I snatched an item from the nearby cart and
placed it in front of her: one of our four copies of the <i>Beeton’s Christmas Annual</i> from 1887, the first time a Holmes story
appeared in print. Haley knew about the <i>Beeton’s</i>,
but she’d never seen one before. She was nearly overwhelmed, but recovered
enough to take a few pictures and make a few comments. By this time, Rebecca
and Danielle, subdued by all they’d seen and yet not totally comprehending what
they’d seen, sat quietly to the side. Grandpa Jim took it all in without
comment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And then it happened. I asked: “What is your favorite
Holmes story?” Haley replied, “<i>The Hound
of the Baskervilles</i>.” Quietly, without notice or fanfare, I took one of our
manuscript leaves from <i>The Hound</i> and
put it in front of her on the table. All of a sudden, here she was,
face-to-face with a page—a manuscript page—from her favorite—and Doyle’s
best-known—Sherlock Holmes adventure, written in Doyle’s own hand. She started
to cry. I got choked up, too, but in my Scandinavian way kept it inside. Grandpa
Jim, somewhat concerned, silently moved toward his granddaughter. Rebecca and
Danielle, their teasing now a thing of the past, grew exceedingly still and in
a nearly silent whisper asked: “Why are you crying?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In that moment—that oh so brief but memorable
moment—something seismic and sincere happened. We were all “in” to Sherlock
Holmes, even Grandpa Jim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The moment passed, Haley snapped pictures of the manuscript,
I pulled more things from a cart, and still more pictures were taken before we
descended into the caverns for the second part of our tour. After a brisk walk
through our subterranean expanse, we settled ourselves in the Holmes
Collections. Up and down the aisles we went, pulling items from trays, chatting
about Holmes and the collectors who made this all possible. Before long, it was
time to return to the surface and the end of our tour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As she got ready to leave, Haley gave me a big hug and told
me that I was “her newest best friend.” She also stated, in no uncertain terms:
“I want your job.” I replied that if she played her cards right and studied
hard, I’d be retiring about the time she finished graduate school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She’s come to visit me a time or two since her first visit.
She and Grandpa Jim—and anyone else for that matter—have a standing invitation
to come back to see and work with the Collections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s a postscript to this final adventure. I didn’t know
it at the time, but Haley was struggling in school; she was an average student
at best. A few days after their visit, I received a note from vice president
Bob. “I saw Jim last night,” his note began, “and he said that the visit was
all Haley was talking about. She also said she now wants to go college, will
study harder, and that she is determined to be a librarian.” Through the
grapevine I later found out that Haley’s grades improved from primarily Cs to
As and Bs. It was on this day that I knew, without a doubt, that I was in the
right place, doing the right work, for the right reasons. It was a profound
affirmation of my calling, of my vocation. Talk about a transformative visit!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In “The Musgrave Ritual” Holmes reminds the biographically
inclined Watson that not all those lovingly bundled tin-boxed cases were a success,
but that there were “some pretty little problems among them.” We have our
inspiring days, the riddling or puzzling days, and also those days that are
just the pits. You will have those kinds of days as you use and nurture this
special collection, or to borrow from another genre: the good, the bad, and the
ugly. Just remember: do not follow the example of Brunton the butler and get
trapped in the “so under.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The game is afoot! As you enjoy each other’s company in the
companionship of Holmes and Watson, you also know this: that we can never
forget those high days of discovery; never neglect the ritual; never forget our
calling. For it is the experience, the ritual, and the calling that in the end
lead to promise. It is to keep forever green the memory of the Master. I give
this to you as a charge. To you who so faithfully and diligently formed what is
now the St. Louis Sherlockian Research Collection; and to you who work and move
within the St. Louis Public Library: remember your history; remember your
rituals; remember your calling; remember the future. They will serve you well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Finally, let me leave you with a thought that comes from a
colleague, Michael Suarez, at the University of Virginia. In one of the most
influential talks I ever heard at a professional conference, Suarez spoke of
the library as a place that asks us profound questions about our humanity and
our endeavors. To enter a library, step into its stacks, vaults, meeting rooms,
or galleries is to step onto hallowed ground, into a place that opens itself for
a consideration of the eternal or holy. “The library,” Suarez stated, “is a
sacred place because it is...where I go to situate my humanity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I know this to be true, as do you, because of what a little
library not far from here in Ferguson did during a time of turmoil. Inside the
Ferguson library, a sign gave testimony to this truth. It read: “During
difficult times, the library is a quiet oasis where we can catch our breath,
learn, and think about what to do next.” For us, it might mean spending a quiet
evening with Holmes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As his arm dove down to the bottom of the chest to retrieve
a small wooden box containing “a crumpled piece of paper, an old-fashioned
brass key, a peg of wood with a ball of string attached to it, and three rusty
old disks of metal,” Holmes asked the good doctor, “Well, my boy, what do you
make of this lot?” “It is, replied Watson, “a curious collection.” A curious
and precious collection, indeed. With such a crowning collection as this—the
St. Louis Sherlockian Research Collection—in such a special place as this, what
adventures might we expect? What sparks might we observe in the dark hollows of
our hands as we investigate these formerly hidden jewels? My mind and spirit reverberate
and delight in the possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</xml><![endif]-->What follows are my remarks given as part of a program at the Elmer L. Andersen Library on the afternoon and evening of March 10, 2017 in honor of my special friend and colleague, Professor Theofanis G. Stavrou. I prefaced my prepared remarks by observing that while I was the one speaking, there were many colleagues from the University of Minnesota Libraries (some of whom were present) who also played a role in working with Theofanis to develop the Basil Laourdas Modern Greek Literature Collection in our Special Collections & Rare Books unit of the Archives and Special Collections Department, and in developing the general collections to support Modern Greek studies at the University of Minnesota. I especially called out my predecessor, the late Austin McLean, and Carol Urness, former curator of the James Ford Bell Library. Without Austin, who began this work, and Carol, who kept it going until my arrival, none of this would have happened. I offer these remarks on behalf of those remarkable colleagues and friends.<br />
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Dear Theo,</div>
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Much of what follows comes with the assistance of your dear
brother, who also suggested that these remarks be understated. I will do my
best to heed his advice, although it may prove difficult. Perhaps a little
humor will help.<br />
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From the time you were a young boy in Cyprus, until your
later teenage years, you exhibited signs of incipient bibliomania. Your family
came from a small village. You were born into this family of book lovers and
avid readers. This passion for books and reading came through the blood; it is
a thing you inherited. It is important to remember this. This malady was not of
your own doing; it was a trait given to you. Not surprisingly, you embraced
this inheritance with all your soul.</div>
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Your feverish love for all things written and published
manifested itself in the construction of a library located in a small
triangular bedroom. Sometime in the 1940s, extending through the early 1950s,
you populated your three-cornered library with school books you were allowed to
keep; with Classics Illustrated; with Zane Gray and other cowboy westerns; with
Perry Mason cases; with weekly publications of western adventures and detective
stories; with Modern Greek and European—especially English—literature. On top
of this, you bought and saved all Greek and English newspapers published on
Cyprus. One wonders how your shelves bore the strain. Did you double-, or maybe
even triple-stack your shelves? It is a trick well known to avid collectors. And,
of course, I have to ask: did your collection include any Sherlock Holmes? </div>
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This happy, bookish illness revealed itself in other ways.
Your hands, apparently, were seldom seen without a book attached to them. It is
a condition well known to fellow sufferers—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">read-us
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all-the-time-us</i>. Since I don’t see
a book in your hand at the moment, I’ll assume you’ve survived this particular
stage of illness.</div>
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On your arrival to the United States, it appears you
suffered a bibliophilic relapse. You started building another library, this
time in your uncle’s house in New York. I can only surmise that things got
worse after you received your Ph.D. and were hired by the University of
Minnesota. I’m assuming this New York collection, or at least part of it,
migrated to Minnesota. I’ve seen the library in your office, so I know you’re
still infected with this particular virus. Your home library, by all reports, has
reached legendary and epic proportions.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh, dear Theo, I shudder to think what strain those beams
and rafters must be under. Do any of your colleagues or family members fear for
their safety? I know a good library, and maybe a librarian or two, who might be
able to help you out with this particular phase of your sickness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At this point, it should surprise no one that after your
hire by the University in 1961, you returned to Cyprus—your first visit since
1952—with the express plan to compile a bibliography of Cyprus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do not know the fate of that project, but I do know a
great deal of the rest.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You helped establish—indeed, you were the prime
mover—in the establishment of the Basil Lourdas Modern Greek collection in the
Special Collections unit of the University Library;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You secured part of the Efthymios Souloyannis
personal library from Athens;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You helped acquire special items such as a
signed copy of Kazantzakis’ <i>Odyssey</i>;<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span>You assisted the Immigration History Research
Center Archives with their work;<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a founding member of the
University of Cyprus, you were eager to help efforts toward a university
library in that place;</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To that end, you arranged
for the University of Cyprus to purchase the approximately
fourteen-thousand-title personal library of Tibor Halasi-Kun, a Turkic Scholar
at Columbia University, who had died in 1991.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You arranged to have the titles of the books scanned, the books packed,
and shipped to Cyprus;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">G</span>oing further, you gathered
books for the University of Cyprus donated from the personal library of your
mentor, Robert Byrnes, at Indiana University, and by colleagues at the
University of Minnesota— Harold Deutsch, George Greene, Tom Kelly, and others.</span></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have always been a supporter of exhibits and
other programs promoting books;</span></li>
<ul>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have, alas, encouraged, indeed inspired many
individuals, especially young people, to collect books;</span></li>
<ul>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You encouraged not only your students, but also
friends young and old, to write and publish on subjects of interest to them;</span></li>
<ul>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And you collaborated with the University Libraries
in connection with two lecture series you helped establish: the Annual Celebration
of Greek Letters, and the Annual James W. Cunningham Memorial Lecture on
Eastern Orthodox History and Culture.</span></li>
<ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span>Last, but not least, you initiated and
supervised three publication series that were issued through the Modern Greek
Studies Program here at Minnesota: The Nostos books, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, </i>and the Minnesota Mediterranean and
East European Monographs (MMEEM)—all together, about eighty volumes.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All of you, by the way, are invited to examine these various
books on display here in this room following the program.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, allow me to end this segment on a personal note.
One of the highlights of my career was to travel to, and study in, Greece—in
the company of Lucien and two other of your students over a five week span—and
to spend a small portion of that time in monasteries on Mount Athos. The memory
of those days, especially my time in the libraries at The Holy and Great
Monastery of Vatopedi, will remain with me to the end of my days.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I salute you, dear doctor and friend, for the manner in
which you let this gentle madness, this bibliophilia, infect us all. We are the
better for it.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Books, we know, are but one of your passions. Now,
Susannah Smith will tell us about another of your passions: teaching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is a
windy March afternoon, late winter in Minnesota. I’m hunkered down in the
<a href="http://www.hclib.org/about/locations/excelsior">Excelsior Public Library</a>. It’s a beautiful, bright, new open space. Three
adults sit reading within my line of sight. One or two more roam the shelves.
Indistinct staff banter floats over the shelves. It is a quiet, sheltered space—a
good place to think and write.</span></div>
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should have meant a short stay, but my early morning appointment morphed into
hours. I had little choice after staff informed me that a brake job was necessary.
I acquiesced to the brakes, knowing a long road trip to Colorado was in the
works. Peace of mind, especially as it relates to
aging automobiles, was worth the extra time.</span></div>
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waiting in the dealership’s lounge, I had plenty of time to contemplate our
current state of affairs. This morning, Republicans trumpeted their new health
care legislation. My representative <a href="https://twitter.com/RepErikPaulsen/status/839129097594892289">urged his constituents to read the plan</a>,
all 123 legalese pages of it. I scratched the surface of this draft bill, read
other summaries and reports, and may attempt to tackle the entire bill at a
later date. But, for now, I was unimpressed by what I read. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Meanwhile,
Washington reverberates with Russian intrigue as a chorus grows louder to appoint a
special prosecutor. Costs continue to mount from presidential trips—including family
members on family business—and we shake our heads in disbelief, our cheeks tint
with mild disgust. A new executive order on immigration is in the works while
my university has now formed an immigration response team to assist foreign
students concerned with their status and safety. According to University of
Minnesota president <a href="https://president.umn.edu/content/full-transcript-and-video-president-kalers-state-university-address">Eric Kaler</a>, we attract students from more than 135 nations,
not to mention visiting scholars and foreign faculty. That’s a lot of worry and
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Back in my
quiet corner, the library has suddenly filled with student chatter. Almost all
of my new neighbors appear to be elementary students. The nearby school must
have just let out. It’s a delightful sight. Nearly every seat is filled. A
young boy politely asks me if I am using the computer next to me. I’m not, and
he pleasingly plops down in the chair and begins whatever explorations are
ahead of him. Over the next ninety minutes or so these students—sometimes boisterously—engage
the library. Are they working on assignments? Doing some required reading? Browsing
for pleasure? Whatever their needs, they seem addressed by this after-school
oasis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Before long,
I notice the time. Normally, I’d be leaving <a href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/special">my office</a> about now. Most of the
students have left, no doubt on to their next activity. And yet, two youngsters
still sit on the other side of my station, ears muffled by headphones, eyes
glued to their computer screens. The looks on their faces are priceless, rapt
as they are in whatever they’re watching. It is a special moment, one I savor,
and a reminder of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming">how important public libraries are</a> to the social fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">How many
times have legislators sought to cut library funding, just as they’re now
ramping up to strip (or abolish) our national endowments in the arts and
humanities? Public radio and television seem to be on the chopping block as
well. Have these lawmakers ever taken a quiet moment to sit in a public library
on a winter’s afternoon and look—silently look—at the enthralled faces of young
students such as these? Or experienced the exuberant joy and thrilled discovery
in excited, nattering voices? Nearby, as if on cue, a young boy, picking a book
from a bin, exclaims, “This book is awesome!” No one in the library on this
blustery afternoon could have missed his exhilaration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here, while
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their lively steps. No legislator fully present on such a day would want to
steal such hope. Before I pack my own bag and prepare to depart, I’m left with
a final plaintive question that drifts to me from across the room: “Mom, can I
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A few of weeks ago, after the British Broadcasting
Corporation’s second episode of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i>
(Season Four) aired on American public television, critics of various shades
took to social media. “The Lying Detective,” like “The Six Thatchers” before
it, offered plenty of opportunities for critical arrows. Charles Prepolec, a Canadian
of recent acquaintance and newly-minted Baker Street Irregular (the preeminent
North American Sherlockian literary society), kept his arrows quivered while
remarking on Facebook: “Have tackled the newest <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i> episode a couple times now and still can't decide how I
feel about it. That's probably not a good sign.” Good sign or not, I joined the
fray and commented on his post: “Waiting to complete the story arc for this
season before rendering any criticism, such as it might be. General sense to
this point: Gatiss and Moffat are building toward something. I’m interested in
what they’re building. But then, I’ll acknowledge my “big tent” inclusive bias.
It comes with the job.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am not a practicing critic. My “big tent”
perspective comes from being a curator at the University of Minnesota and steward
to the world’s largest gathering of material related to Sherlock Holmes as a
cultural icon. From such a vantage point, critic or not, allow me to expand my
social media-induced shorthand analysis.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sherlock</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Co-creators Mark
Gatiss and Steven Moffat <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">were</i>
building toward something. What that “something” is, only they can say. I’ve
not yet taken time to read or watch interviews with them or the cast in order
to add additional data in support of my hypothesis. Instead, I took a little
bit of time to go back and view the first episode of Season One, “A Study in
Pink.” Like an amateur detective wannabe, or a Watson understudy, I reexamined
the beginning of the Gatiss-Moffat narrative arc, looking, as it were, for
clues. Holmes might scold me for such misguided methodology, conducted in a
vacuum, and argue instead for an interrogation of principal suspects. For the
moment, I prefer to play my own game, the musings of an admirer who enjoyed the
entire series. If what I rediscovered in that first episode comes anywhere
close to the truth, then I hope Gatiss and Moffat—should they ever stumble
across these words—will be pleased; or at least mildly amused. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Partial inspiration for my hypothesis—that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i> is a superbly creative
invention designed to encompass the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">entire</i>
world of Mr. Holmes, and in that embrace offer commentary on an extraordinary
friendship (and friendship, generally)—comes from author Bonnie MacBird’s
confession that she loves “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i> for
exactly what it is—a very creative riff on canon, written and performed by some
immensely talented guys….</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Those characters, those vulnerabilities, have been carefully
constructed, consistently built throughout the series. It’s not the Canon,
it’s a version of these characters which is consistent within the longer arc of
the <i>Sherlock</i> series.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> My premise includes not
only Canon, but Apocrypha, parody, pastiche, fandom (broadly defined as running
the spectrum from traditionalist to convention-attending cosplayer)—in short, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anything</i> having to do with Mr. Holmes
and Dr. Watson—in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> media. Feel
free to slap me back to reality, but data from “A Study in Pink” leads me in
this direction.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What I found in this inaugural episode of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i> surprised me. I attended
primarily to spoken clues, although visual clues abound. There is, for
instance, an introductory panning camera shot of Baker Street that is a direct <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">homage</i> to Granada Television’s opening
sequence in the Jeremy Brett series. Others more visually literate will have
certainly spotted references throughout the series to other productions. In
this instance, allow me to sprinkle in a few additional references to other
visuals and episodes while concentrating on the libretto of this mesmerizing
opera.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Secondary characters help frame this study in
friendship, for that is the ultimate aim of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i>.
Beyond the police tape, outside the crime scene, Sergeant Sally Donovan of the Metropolitan
Police warns Watson (and us) in no uncertain terms: “Stay away from Sherlock
Holmes.” Like the good doctor, we are unable to heed her warning and proceed to
the investigation. Once inside the Holmesian perimeter, we receive a second
admonition from Donovan’s superior, Detective Inspector Lestrade: “I’m breaking
every rule letting you in here.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> What immediately follows
this warning is, in essence, an existential call and response featuring Holmes
and Lestrade that speaks to our longings as an audience. Holmes, in reply to
Lestrade’s half-hearted rebuke of “letting you in here,” begins our litany:
“Yes, because you need me,” to which we (as Lestrade) reply, “Yes, I do. God
help me.” It is a collective confession and cry for assistance from someone, or
something, beyond ourselves. We need Sherlock Holmes. But why?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As audience, we find ourselves in the roles of
these perimeter players, but also, more closely, as Watson. It is Conan Doyle’s
canonical invention taken to new heights. Once on the crime scene, we (as Watson)
still require Lestrade’s permission to assist Holmes, which our Scotland Yarder
readily grants. “Oh, do as he says. Help yourself.” The Detective Inspector
gives us both marching orders and authorization. Our roles as onlookers to this
episodic adventure are set. We should follow Sherlock’s dictates and yet enjoy
ourselves a bit along the way. Or does Lestrade’s idiomatic phrase exhibit a
double edge? Are we welcomed to take what we want, or do what we want without asking
permission—“help yourself”—while at the same time directed toward introspection
and self-care (a kind of care famously absent from Holmes’s life)? In an
oblique and unconscious way, is Lestrade summoning the ancient Socratic dictum
that “the unexamined life is not worth living?” Confused by this existential
double entendre we, like Watson, remain puzzled in our role. This puzzling,
pondering, brooding will continue until the denouement of “The Final Problem”
in the series’ fourth season. </span></div>
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“A Study in Pink,” we still wonder how we fit into this relationship. What is
the bond between us? It is a question that will dog us until series’ end. Our
experience tells us that it is something more than simply being Sherlock’s flatmate,
or audience. We are, after all, standing in the midst of a crime scene. But we
remain confused. Watson, now psychosomatically crouched beside the dead body of
a lady in pink, asks: “What am I doing here?” Holmes enigmatically replies:
“Helping me make a point.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What point</i>?
It is another question we’ll add to the pile and ponder throughout the series. Watson
thinks he’s helping pay the rent, but for Sherlock it is much more than that.
“Yeah, well, this is more fun.” Flabbergasted, Watson replies: “Fun? There’s a
woman lying dead.” Holmes prods us. “Perfectly sound analysis, but I was hoping
you’d go deeper.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is this Sherlockian hope to go deeper that
adds to my enjoyment of the series and intensifies my argument, found in clues from
the first episode, that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i> is
designed to explore the meaning of friendship while touching on the entire
world—past and present—of Mr. Holmes and his followers. Characters large and
small are freed from their canonical restraints, reflecting our own frantic expansion
of Conan Doyle’s original players over the past 130 years through multiple
genres transmitted across manifold channels. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Similarly, it is an expansion of our
enthusiasms. Holmes and Watson are no longer the exclusive property of their
creator or a select group of devotees, if they ever were. Conan Doyle’s cast
now plays to (and with) a diverse audience. And it is an ever-widening cast.
Whoever, or whatever our mysterious Holmesian third sibling, Eurus, represents
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i>’s final season, I venture
to suggest that she symbolizes an evolution of audience, in a similar manner to
the progressive work of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (the oldest
women’s Sherlockian literary society) vis-à-vis the Baker Street Irregulars (founded
in 1934, who finally admitted women as members in 1991). Eurus is outnumbered
by her brothers, two to one, but those days may be numbered (if not already
here). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As an aside, we might contemplate the
relationship of Sergeant Donovan and Philip Anderson, one-time member of the
Metropolitan Police forensic unit (and sometime paramour with Donovan), as a
mirror in which to view Sherlockian fandom. In this scenario, Donovan’s warning
to stay away from Holmes can be viewed as an admonition by traditional
Sherlockians to refrain from tinkering (or worse) with canon, characters, and
Victorian settings. Anderson, equally antagonistic toward Holmes in earlier
episodes, appears to have a change of heart which separates him from Donovan (and
traditional devotees). Following Sherlock’s apparent death (dramatized at the
end of the second season), and dismissed from his position at the Met (as we
learn in the third season), Anderson confesses his belief to Lestrade that
Holmes is still alive: “I believe in Sherlock Holmes.” Contrarily, Lestrade believes
Holmes is dead, but together he and Anderson raise their coffee cups to “absent
friends.” Sometime after Holmes’s death, Anderson forms a fan club, ‘The Empty
Hearse,’ “so like-minded people could meet [and] discuss theories [of Holmes’s survival
or death]....” Anderson, convinced that “Sherlock’s still out there,” is
suddenly blown away by news that Holmes is alive and eventually collapses in a
fit of hysteria following a conversation with Holmes in the flesh. It is a
resurrection scene lifted straight from Holy Writ. Anderson’s hysteria
(representing a newer fandom) does not sit well with a traditionalist’s view of
canon. Such events are seen by old-school hobbyists as outside a fundamentalist
Doylean norm and unworthy of Holmes.</span></div>
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soon-to-be published article in a special Sherlockian issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Transformative Works and Cultures</i>, we
are living on the outer edges of a Holmesian “Big Bang” that began in 1887 with
the publication of the first Sherlockian adventure, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Study in Scarlet</i>. There is a new normal that is both canonical
and extra-canonical. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i>, as
with its American counterpart, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i>
(and an ever growing list of fan fiction found in online platforms such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Archive of Our Own</i>) are not explosions
in Holmesian space, but expansions of that space. Such an expansion takes place
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Season One’s “A Study in Pink” may be closest
to canon, Season Four’s “The Final Problem” farthest away. Canonical or not, it
may not matter. Like Watson, we are liberated from our past, forget our cane, spring
from the table, and sprint through the streets of London in pursuit of our
quarry.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And yet, there’s always someone who returns
our mislaid walking stick and in the process reminds us that we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">were</i> traumatized. Holmes and Watson are
no exception; they both suffered in earlier times—Holmes with his Redbeard,
Watson his Afghanistan. Watson’s overcoming—or at least managing—his
post-traumatic stress disorder helps us recall that this is a friendship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in process</i>. It is a fraught relationship
in competition or conflict with previous bonds, on both sides. (Witness those
Best Man antics displayed by our dynamic duo in “The Sign of Three.”) Those
with previously established relations play their part and then, with few
exceptions, move off stage. Mike Stamford, for example, is “an old friend,” but
once a new flat is secured he moves into the shadows. John’s girlfriend, Sarah,
in “The Blind Banker” endures a near-death experience, but disappears from his
life. Holmes sarcastically describes Donovan as an “old friend” while she
addresses him as “freak.” Donovan, puzzling over who Watson really is,
concludes that he is not Sherlock’s friend. “He doesn’t have friends. So who
are you?” Watson, himself unsure, replies “I’m…I’m nobody. I just met him.”
John is more than a nobody, but both he and Sherlock struggle with the meaning
of friendship throughout the series. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Those friendships orbiting closer to our
champions are similarly more complex, if not always detailed in full over the
episodes. Watson is estranged from his drinking, divorcing sister, Harriet (aka
Harry). “Harry and me don’t get on, never have.” A reclusive and formative
friend, Major Sholto, appears at Watson’s wedding, is surreptitiously stabbed
by an avenging photographer, and ultimately saved by an appeal to his better
nature. Irene Adler, “The Woman,” is secretly rescued by Sherlock despite her
dominatrix tendencies. To both Holmes and Watson, Mrs. Hudson is “your
landlady, dear, not your housekeeper.” (We know better, especially after she
pops out of her Aston Martin in “The Lying Detective.”) Holmes’s skull on the
mantel of 221B is a “friend of mine,” but Mrs. Hudson later removes it. John
thinks: “So I’m basically filling in for your skull?” Sherlock assures him:
“Relax, you’re doing fine.” In each instance we glimpse clues to the meaning of
friendship, while wondering if we’re really “doing fine.”</span></div>
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of bonds: Molly, Mary Morstan, Moriarty, and Mycroft; the “four Ms.” Each character
could be the subject of a separate essay, but for the moment let us return to
“A Study in Pink” and concentrate on perhaps the most conflicted relationship: the
one that exists between the Holmes brothers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In his initial encounter with Mycroft, Watson
engages in a dialogue with this mysterious personage that brings together many
of our meditations on friendship, roles, and existential meaning (and our own
attraction to Holmes):</span></div>
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You don’t seem very afraid.</span></div>
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You don’t seem very frightening.</span></div>
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Ah, yes. The bravery of the soldier. Bravery is by far the kindest word for
stupidity, don’t you think? What is your connection to Sherlock Holmes?</span></div>
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I don’t have one. I barely know him. I met him...yesterday.</span></div>
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Mmm, and since yesterday you’ve moved in with him and now you’re solving crimes
together. Might we expect a happy announcement by the end of the week?</span></div>
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Who are you?</span></div>
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An interested party.</span></div>
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Interested in Sherlock? Why? I’m guessing you’re not friends.</span></div>
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You’ve met him. How many ‘friends’ do you imagine he has? I am the closest
thing to a friend that Sherlock Holmes is capable of having.</span></div>
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An enemy.</span></div>
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An enemy?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">MH:
In his mind, certainly. If you were to ask him, he’d probably say his
arch-enemy. He does love to be dramatic.</span></div>
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don’t seem the kind to make friends easily.” John doesn’t answer the question. Mycroft—undeterred
and aware of the Afghanistan-induced stress—addresses John’s physical and
mental states by asking to inspect Watson’s hand. Reluctantly, John agrees to
the examination. (A similarly revealing examination takes place later, as
Watson presents his face to Magnusson in “His Last Vow.”) Mycroft continues: “I
imagine people have already warned you to stay away from him, but I can see
from your left hand that’s not going to happen.” Watson’s hand (and by
extension, his growing trust in Holmes) remains unshaken. In a roundabout way,
Mycroft is calling John back to action and intentionally (or not) bringing our
duo closer together. “Most people blunder round this city, and all they see are
streets and shops and cars. When you walk with Sherlock Holmes, you see the
battlefield. You’ve seen it already, haven’t you?” Watson, still fixated on
Mycroft’s examination of his hand, is slow to get the point. The elder brother
pronounces his diagnosis and issues a call to arms. “You’re not haunted by the
war, Doctor Watson...you miss it. Welcome back….Time to choose a side….”</span></div>
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continual search for role and meaning in life. In sometimes minor, yet fundamentally
meaningful ways these encounters between Sherlockian characters point to an
exploration into the meaning of friendship. Watson makes a pass at Mycroft’s
assistant, a Bondian “Miss Moneypenny” character operating under the alias of
Anthea, only to be turned away. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over
dinner, while keeping an eye on 22 Northumberland Street, Holmes and Watson explore
their sexuality. Watson continues to battle his analyst, yet it is she who
uncovers his true identity: “John, you’re a soldier.” It is Watson retrieving
his pistol in the opening episode and wrestling with the moral implications of using
a similar firearm in “The Final Problem.” It is Holmes, wondering why a
stillborn infant, dead for fourteen years, still matters to her mother. “That
was ages ago. Why would she still be upset?” It is Watson, offering the last
words or thoughts of a murder victim, “Please, God, let me live,” while being
chided by Holmes to “use your imagination,” to which Watson sharply replies, “I
don’t have to.” It is Donovan chastising us when Holmes exits a scene. “I told
you, he does that. He bloody left again. We’re wasting our time!...Does it
matter? Does any of it? He’s just a lunatic and he’ll always let you down. And
you’re wasting your time. All our time.” It is an examination of our intellect
and how we use it. “Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains. It
must be so boring.” It is the cabbie, gun in hand, asking Holmes “You don’t
wanna phone a friend?” It is Holmes, in reply, observing that the cabbie “didn’t
just kill four people because you’re bitter. Bitterness is a paralytic. Love is
a much more vicious motivator.” It is an exercise, like the choice of
pill-laden bottles, of free will. It is an exploration of what it means to be
human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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in the adventure. “I said ‘dangerous,’ and here you are.” Ever mystified,
Watson still wonders: “That’s how you get your kicks, isn’t it? You risk your
life to prove you’re clever.” Holmes replies: “Why would I do that?” to which
Watson answers, “Because you’re an idiot.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But we know Holmes is not an idiot. In the
end, it is Sherlock who joins John in the ranks of soldiers. “Into battle,” a
phrase uttered by Holmes as he prepares to dress for John’s wedding, marks this
transition. Likewise, the frontline watchword, “Vatican cameos,” alerts our
friends to impending danger. In the midst of their ongoing battles—as might be
the way of soldiers—Watson asks Lestrade an existential question. “So why do
you put up with him?” In reply, the inspector answers, “Because I’m desperate,
that’s why. And because Sherlock Holmes is a great man, and I think one day, if
we’re very, very lucky, he might even be a good one.” Brother Mycroft offers a
final word. “Interesting, that soldier fellow. He could be the making of my
brother…or make him worse than ever.” Happily for us, it is the making of a
remarkable friendship, worth pondering for a lifetime. </span></div>
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Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-36445270681855283352016-07-29T14:00:00.000-05:002016-07-29T14:00:52.902-05:00Stew Pot of the Soul: Some Professional, Political, and Personal Reflections<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not long ago, while
attending the annual Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) annual
conference,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
a professional gathering of folks concerned with those rare or special marvels found
in many libraries or archives, I found myself posting this short online note to
Twitter:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
professional stew simmering in my soul, made w/ ingredients from Suarez,
@wynkenhimself, @mchris4duke, Light. What will result? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My shorthand ingredient
list referred to past and present talks or writings given by professional colleagues
Michael Suarez, Sarah Werner, Chris Bourg, and Michelle Light.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> Their
thoughts, and others, distress my mind. Bourg, ever alert and timely on social
media, replied to my post: “I’ll be watching!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bourg, Light, Suarez,
and Werner entered my intellectual/professional/spiritual geography over the
last few years. My tweeted reference about them was, in some ways, unintentional.
I could have easily mentioned other names. Yet, for whatever reason, they collectively
triggered something in my mind, something I’ve not been able to shake or
dismiss. On the surface, it might appear they are talking about different
things—user fees and access, digital surrogates, diversity, professional
standing. Look carefully below the surface, however, and what I saw were conjoined
currents of concern regarding civil rights, social justice, diversity, and equity. In
short, what Bourg, Light, Suarez, and Werner provide—random though it may
seem—is a way to navigate this region of my personal and professional topography.
Together, they give me thoughts and a vocabulary for what it means to be fully
human, or to seek after such humanity, while working as an archivist, curator,
or librarian in American higher education. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here then, in answer to
my tweeted question (and for those ever watchful among us), is a contemplative—and
perhaps cathartic—meditation on this simmering stew of the soul. Part
imprecation, lament, introspection, and supplication, these words endeavor to
make professional sense in an increasingly senseless world.</span></div>
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Biltmore, Coral Gables, Florida</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. May I accuse you of
triggering my occupational discontent? I find your opulence disconcerting. You’re
photogenic from every perspective. God knows, I revel in your architecture,
your status as an historic landmark, late-night swims in your pool, your
elegant service. Never, in over thirty years of employment, have I stayed at a
place like you. Slippers by my bed, chocolate near my pillow. You really outdo
yourself. Your luxury—Frette robes and plush Bamboo Orchid towels—maddens me
even as I slip into your European feather bedding topped with 340-thread-count
Egyptian cotton duvet covers. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What am I
doing here?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I don’t have far to
look beyond your manicured landscapes, brightly painted walls, and hidden
courtyards to find a different reality, one filled with hunger, homelessness,
and illiteracy. According to a recent study, 306,330 people in Miami-Dade
county—about twelve percent (including children)—are “food insecure.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a> In
South Florida (Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties) 280,630
children (almost 23 percent) go to bed hungry.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a> The
Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust’s annual “Point-in-Time” census showed a total
of 4,235 sheltered and unsheltered homeless individuals.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a> In
2003, 52 percent of Miami-Dade’s population lacked basic prose literary skills.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a> In
two years, between 2010 and 2012, Miami-Dade’s population—64 percent of which
is Hispanic or Latino—increased by almost 95,000 people, mainly due to migration.
A little over half of the county’s residents are foreign-born. Nearly 23
percent of Miami-Dade’s Black, African American, Hispanic, or Latino residents
don’t have a high school diploma compared to about 5 percent White
non-Hispanics.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a>
The Census Bureau tells me “that more than one in six Floridians lives in poverty”
and that the state ranks 16<sup>th</sup> in the nation for children living in
poverty, almost a fourth of the childhood population.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a> It
would not be difficult for me to find similar numbers in these categories for
my hometown. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What am I doing here?</i></span></div>
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don’t want to find any more numbers</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. Professionally
speaking, I’m good at finding numbers—we’re good, as librarians, at finding
numbers—but this is more than a numbers game. This is a game for much higher
stakes. In the time I’ve piddled around thinking about this little piece of
writing we’ve witnessed horrors in Orlando, Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights,
Dallas, Nice, Baton Rouge, again. Chicago, home to the American Library
Association and the Society of American Archivists, recorded seventy homicides
in June 2016.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a>
We’re talking about mind, body, and soul. We’re talking about the very essence
of our being: as individuals, professionals, citizens. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What am I doing here?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And yet, the
numbers—and the money involved—pull me back, demanding further reflection. I
could point a reproachful finger toward my professional association, habitually
securing, as they seem to do, plush surroundings for our annual gatherings. It
is mildly exasperating—a feeling too easily sloughed off—explaining to my
business office, after submitting travel reimbursement forms, why lodging costs
are higher than the rate allowed by the Federal government (the baseline we use
for reimbursement). We should be about the people’s business, conscious of how
we spend public monies (even if some—or most—of our support comes from gift or
private funds). Professional norms and expectations conspire against frugal
sensibilities. With nary a twinge of guilt, I agree to reimbursement. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What am I doing here?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But reimbursement for
our professional pleasures (um, development) is perhaps the last and least of
our worries. Long before, yet still in conference, we blanketed ourselves in
wealth and privilege. Consider, for argument’s sake, an annual conference event
we innocently name a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">showcase</i>. This
year’s event featured forty dealers. Let’s assume each dealer offered forty
items to show, at $1,000 per item. In that luxurious long Biltmore room—assuming
those numbers are close to accurate—we enjoyed treasures conservatively valued
at $1.6 million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many of us did the
math as we leisurely strolled, wine and cheese in hand, among the tables? How
many of us considered our privileged position as we perused rare volumes or
exquisite maps? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What are we doing here?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or consider the overall
wealth represented by our individual earnings as we convened in Coral Gables.
It’s an easy calculation, given the event’s cap at four hundred souls: 400
multiplied by $56,880 or $27.35/hour (2015 median pay for librarians according
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics) equals $22.752 million. I find it hard to
complain about what I make when the annual household income worldwide is around
$10,000 and the median per capita household income is around $3,000. In
Miami-Dade county 2012 per capita personal income was $38,860 and median
household income was $41,400.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a> Miami-Dade’s
median hourly wage in 2012 for people working in education, training, and
libraries equaled $21.37.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is it possible to remember or consider our
privileged economic position even as we complain about our non-existent or
meager increases in salaries? What are we doing here?</i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, throw into this
stew other disquietudes offered by Light and Werner.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[12], </span></span></span></span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a>
Two years ago, Light invited us to consider the marketplace of ideas as it
relates to our digitized content and higher education’s mission: “to
disseminate knowledge, encourage appreciation of our cultural heritage, and
inspire creativity.” She contended that “making public domain material freely
available is consistent with this mission” and also “consistent with our
professional values that emphasize access.” Our responsibility as librarians is
to promote “the public good,” not treat “our content as goods we control in the
marketplace.” She argued “that we improve our society by increasing the
distribution of our heritage, by making it more visible and available for
inclusion in public discourse…. Widespread visibility of our content would make
for a better, not a worse, world.” To this end, Light rewrote her institutional
permission policies and eliminated use fees. She ended her talk with three
probing questions:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What values do you want your institution
to represent?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What role should your institution have
in the marketplace for historical content?</span><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
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progress of our culture?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Light asks me to freely
give away much of the content under my stewardship—some of it acquired and
preserved at great cost—in order to achieve a greater good. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What is this greater good?</i> Our public
domain materials, as well as other materials for which we own rights, need to
be forcibly interjected into, and inform, our public discourse. Not to do so
hinders cultural progress and degrades our world. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What public conversation(s) do we engage, and how?</i> John Overholt<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a>
recently offered this comment on Twitter, as if in confirmation: “If your
collections are a treasure-hoard you hide and guard from users, You. Are. No.
Librarian. You don't know the meaning of the word.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who am I?</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What am I doing
here?</i></span></div>
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recent presentation, pushed us further as she looked “for a radically open
digital landscape.” She saw evidence of “a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">potentially</i>
radical way” in the manner institutions are opening physical collections to
novice scholars and younger students, increasing online access to digital
facsimiles, and engaging audiences proactively. “It’s a shift from modes of
limited access, expert authority, and control to ones of openness and sharing.”
At the same time, Werner chided us on the care, keeping, and use of our
physical items while enumerating places, permissions, policies, and procedures
that intimidate the very people we wish to serve. She concluded by observing
that “special collections libraries are not like libraries that most people
use, for reasons that are very good but also have the effect of sending the
message that THEY ARE NOT FOR YOU (emphasis hers).” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What are we doing here?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Werner saw much the
same on the digital landscape. Theoretically, she speculated that this space
should be “more welcoming, navigable, [and] open” than its physical
counterpart. “You don’t need to be an expert, you don’t need anyone’s
permission to enter, no one needs to know what you’re looking at, all that
information is there for your use.” In reality, she found the scenery very
different. It is a fragmented, haphazard, nightmarish panorama, difficult to
navigate or comprehend. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Should this
surprise us, given fiscal inequalities, political realities, and the
“corporatization” of higher education?</i> “Images are hard to find, the same
canonical works are digitized repeatedly, little attempt is made to provide
context or to educate users on what the images are, and licensing restricts
their uses.” “The radical potential of digital tools for special collections,”
Werner asserts, “is they let everyone use rare books and manuscripts. They let
everyone read them and destroy them and remake them and carry them into the
future. We haven’t reached that radical openness yet.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Destroying and remaking are powerful, existential, elemental actions. </i>Werner,
echoing Light, pleads for us to let “go of the need to own the access to and
uses of our images.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How do I let go?</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Can I think and act radically? What are
we doing here?</i></span></div>
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continuous Bourgean mash of contemplative ferality, comments, ideas, and
provocations into my simmering pot.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a> Here,
I am willingly unsettled, finding (and prodded) toward social justice in the
interweaving of personal, professional, and political concerns. For Bourg “the
personal is political…the personal is professional and vice-versa…personal and
political events tend to find their way into my work.” Unapologetic in this,
she pushes me toward a conditional proposition: “If we want to do work that
contributes to a fuller, richer, more varied understanding of our world, then
we need inclusive and diverse teams collaborating on that work. Full stop.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How do we do this? Is it possible for the
conditional to become unconditional?</i> She also proclaims “that libraries
(and archives) matter now more than ever not just because of google and
technology; but also because of the very real and urgent social and human
problems and challenges facing our nation and our world.” We share many of the
same questions and concerns, from different (white) perspectives: Bourg,
self-described as cis woman, butch, queer; me, self-described as cis man,
straight, ally. I take her questions seriously and make them my own. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What does it mean—what could it mean—to be
doing the work we do at a time like this?”</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the context of a
digital world, Bourg believes that libraries and technology “can be forces for
social good in this world….BUT only when intentional, critical, deeply
value-laden (NOT neutral) choices are made in how we define, develop, and
deliver the set of things we call Digital Libraries.” The same might be said
for analog counterparts. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What are our
intentions?</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who is part of this conversation?
Who makes the choices? Is consensus possible on the “deeply value-laden?”</i> As
I write this, a reminder pops up on social media as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yet another</i> black man is shot by police in North Miami: “Librarians
are not neutral, librarianship is not a neutral profession, libraries are not
neutral spaces, and black lives fucking matter.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How does non-neutrality jibe with a professional code of ethics that
dictates that we “not advance private interests at the expense of library
users, colleagues, or our employing institutions” and that “we distinguish
between our personal convictions and professional duties?”</i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What, for heaven’s sake, are we doing here? </i></span></div>
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“the notion that our libraries ought to provide safe, interdisciplinary,
inclusive, ecumenical gathering spaces—physical and virtual—where community
members have access to scholarly resources and to experts to support their
research and learning goals and their personal growth and well-being.” A
greater goal is to “help us make sense of the world around us. I see libraries,
digital and physical, as platforms for equipping all of us to be more informed
global citizens, able to participate effectively in the public sphere.” Her
sense of urgency is palpable. Given our current state of affairs, this requires
“all of us to participate at our fullest capacities—together.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am drawn to Bourg’s
notion of ecumenical space as a place for dialogue. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In this age of fear and primal screams do we still possess the art of
dialogue? Or is the library a place to learn, to reclaim this art?</i> Here
I’ll embrace one of Bourg’s favorite quotations from bell hooks in her book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Teaching to Transgress</i>: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To
engage in dialogue is one of the simplest ways we can begin as teachers,
scholars and critical thinkers to cross boundaries, the barriers that may or
may not be erected by race, gender, class, professional standing, and a host of
other differences.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bourg concludes: “That
notion of dialogue as education and the idea that authentic, messy, hard,
critical conversations can break down barriers and create spaces for empathy
and opportunities for us to experience our shared humanity is what has
motivated most of my career in higher education and in libraries….” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Can we handle authentic, messy and hard? Are
we really interested in breaking down barriers and creating new spaces? Am I
equally motivated? What are we doing here?</i></span></div>
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spiritual longings and discomforts occasioned by Suarez in remarks offered a
year ago.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[18]</span></span></span></span></a>
He led with a quotation from de Tocqueville: “When the past no longer
illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.” Suarez bids us recognize
those who went before, to see their creativity, and claim our citizenship in an
[historic or academic] continuum, however noble or ignoble. The library, he
argued, asks us profound questions about our humanity and endeavors. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am a student of the past, yet I feel
darkness closing in.</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Did I claim
citizenship in an historical or academic continuum as Philando Castile lay
dying? Did I seek answers to profound questions from library stacks while
Dallas police were assassinated?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At the same time,
Suarez offered hope (or at least challenge) in how we think of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">time</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">space</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">station</i>. We
were asked to change how we view time; to alter our notion of time from the
tick-tock consuming nature of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chronos</i>
(χρόνος) to the due season or opportune moment—imbued with the eternal or holy—of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kairos</i> (καιρός). In the same way, we
should consider our steps into the stacks, vaults, classrooms, or galleries as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hallowed</i>. To be where we are, to do what
we do, to walk where we walk is to be on a pilgrimage—a bibliophilic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Camino de Santiago</i>—where we no longer
walk in darkness. “The library is a sacred place because it is...where I go to
situate my humanity.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Can we understand
or comprehend the sacred in a secular world?</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How many of us think of our places of employment—our libraries and
archives—as sacred space?</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Did I go to
a library to situate my humanity when forty-nine people were murdered in
Orlando or when Alton Sterling was shot? What am I doing here?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lastly, we were asked
to claim our high station, not only in the academy, but in the world. As an aid
to this task, Suarez offered seven pieces of practical wisdom—phronesis (φρόνησις)—to
help us attain this status. His first piece of advice, to publish, prompted me
to write this essay. Many other pieces of his counsel are woven into thoughts
and questions peppering these paragraphs. Suarez, for his last piece of prudent
mindfulness, urged me to “advocate for the public importance of what we do; it
is nothing less than essential for the long-term survival and flourishing of humanity. If
we don’t do that we only have ourselves to blame.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In memoriam to these victims, and in the name of other unfathomable
horrors past, present, and future, do I enact sacred rituals in consecrated
library space, seeking to engage others in the difficult work of reconciliation
and restoration?</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What do those
rituals look like? What should I be doing here? What more will result?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My stew pot of the
soul—supplied with ingredients by Light, Werner, Bourg, Suarez, and
others—still simmers. Questions remain. Yet my path toward whatever banquet or
sustenance such a stew might offer—still veiled in self-doubt and hesitancy—seems
clearer. As a pilgrimage, it is time to take next steps, with greater
intentionality and engagement: to cultivate deeper understandings, build
bridges, give my stuff away, seek “extramural consecration,” attend to
communities of makers, uncover human presence, find moments of “unselving” and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span>radical <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">de</span>centering,” craft “a place where transformative moments happen,” and
conspire to create “the possibility for wonder.” In doing justly, in loving
mercy, in walking humbly, wisdom tells me lives will be changed for the good,
forever. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This is what I’m doing here.</i></span></div>
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organization, or membership section, of the Association of College and Research
Libraries (ACRL), which in turn is a division of the American Library
Association (ALA).</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Respectively: (Suarez) Director
of Rare Book School, Professor of English, University Professor, and Honorary
Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia; (Werner)
Self-described “book historian, library enthusiast, digital tools explorer;
(Bourg) Director of Libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
self-described as a “sociologist by training, and not a real librarian” (or, as
she describes herself elsewhere, a “feral” librarian; (Light) Director of
Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Fellow of the
Society of American Archivists.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Feeding America. </span><a href="http://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2013/overall/florida/county/miami-dade"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2013/overall/florida/county/miami-dade</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Feeding South Florida. </span><a href="http://feedingsouthflorida.org/food-insecurity-in-south-florida-updated-map-the-meal-gap-analysis-released/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://feedingsouthflorida.org/food-insecurity-in-south-florida-updated-map-the-meal-gap-analysis-released/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “Miami-Dade County Homeless
Trust reports homelessness is down slightly in Miami-Dade County.” </span><a href="http://www.homelesstrust.org/releases/2016-02-04-homelessness-down-slightly.asp"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://www.homelesstrust.org/releases/2016-02-04-homelessness-down-slightly.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> National Center for Education
Statistics. </span><a href="https://nces.ed.gov/naal/estimates/StateEstimates.aspx"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">https://nces.ed.gov/naal/estimates/StateEstimates.aspx</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Ibid, page 6.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Florida Department of State,
Division of Library and Information Services. “Strengthening Libraries and
Services. Florida’s Library Services and Technology Act Plan 2013 – 2017.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/state-profiles/plans/florida5yearplan.pdf"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/state-profiles/plans/florida5yearplan.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, page 6.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Chicago Tribune. Chicago
Homicides. </span><a href="http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/homicides"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/homicides</span></a>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Miami-Dade County. Dept. of
Regulatory and Economic Resources, Economic Analysis and Policy. “Miami-Dade
County Economic & Demographic Profile 2014.” </span><a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/business/library/reports/2014-economic-demographic-profile.pdf"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://www.miamidade.gov/business/library/reports/2014-economic-demographic-profile.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">; page 5.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Ibid, page 12.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Michelle Light, “Controlling
Goods or Promoting the Public Good: Choices for Special Collections in the
Marketplace.” 2014. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/libfacpresentation/121"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/libfacpresentation/121</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[13]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Sarah Werner, “Looking for a
Radically Open Digital Landscape.” 2016. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://commons.mla.org/deposits/item/mla:761/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">https://commons.mla.org/deposits/item/mla:761/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[14]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Curator of Early Modern Books
and Manuscripts at Houghton Library, Harvard University, and current chair of
RBMS.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[15]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Chris Bourg. </span><a href="https://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">https://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> My quotations are from two of
her posts: “Digital Library Matters: DLF Liberal Arts College Pre-conference”;
“Librarianing to Transgress: Closing Keynote ACRL OR/WA 2014.”</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[16]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Code of Ethics of the American
Library Association. </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/proethics/codeofethics/codeethics"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://www.ala.org/advocacy/proethics/codeofethics/codeethics</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[17]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> bell hooks, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom</i>. (New
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[18]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Michael Suarez, “Historical
Scholarship 2.0: The Way We (Could) Live Now.” </span><a href="http://rbms.info/conferences2/preconfdocs/2015/talks/RBMS-2015_Papers1.mp3"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://rbms.info/conferences2/preconfdocs/2015/talks/RBMS-2015_Papers1.mp3</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; text-decoration: none;">. </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; text-decoration: none;">All quotations or
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“May I introduce you to Mr. Sherlock
Holmes?” he said to the cabman. “This is Mr. Leverton, of Pinkerton’s American
Agency.” “The hero of the Long
Island Cave
mystery?” said Holmes. “Sir, I am pleased to meet you.” </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Arthur Conan Doyle, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Adventure of the Red Circle</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I got nowhere finding Mike Scholl or
Dan Swenson, but had a lead on NeNe Wolfe. With Google’s help, I found out that
Elizabeth 'NeNe' Wolfe was (and is) a veterinarian in Juneau, Alaska. Better
yet, I had an e-mail address. I sent her a message explaining my quest.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> A
few days later, she replied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hi Tim - I am Nene Wolfe...I'm
travelling in mexico
(sic) at the moment...will respond to your email when I get home! Plus I have
to do some remembering as to why that room got called that. One of the key
fellas that named alot (sic) of stuff “Jim Ratxz” died earlier this
year...he would have remembered...The other fellas were students of mine and I
do not know where they are. More later - take care and why do you want to know
this?<br />
Ne2<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That same day, I wrote thanking her for responding and told
her about seeing the map, her name on the web site, that I was curator of the
world's largest collection of material related to Holmes, and that professional
and personal curiosity drove me to find out how the room was named.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a> I
waited, sent additional e-mails, but no new response came from Alaska.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[iv]</span></span></span></span></a> I
decided to try another tack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Working through
a Wind Cave staff directory, I came across Rod Horrocks, a physical science
specialist. I sent him an inquiry about how place names were chosen in Wind
Cave, with a specific reference to “Baker Street.” His response was full and
informative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
use a combination of USGS [United States Geological Survey] place naming rules
along with “caver etiquette” rules. One of the projects I've been working on
here at Wind Cave
National Park is a Place Name Lexicon
for Wind Cave…. In that database we keep track of
the following parameters: place name, section in cave where found, nearest
survey station, date named, who named it, & why the name was chosen. We now
have over 1,785 place names in that database and those names are the only
official list of names for the cave. We are constantly updating that database
with both new names from the continuing survey project as well as corrections
or additional information about existing names. The information you saw on the
web was from that database.</span></div>
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current policy is to give the cave surveyors the opportunity to name</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">places as they survey. The official
trip leader on each trip, who is trained by my staff, recommends names to us
after a trip is over. We train those leaders with the following naming
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You must survey the passage in question in order to name it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
far as Baker Street is concerned: You are
right, it is a southern continuation of the Wall Street passage. It was
historically part of what was called the Fairy Palace Loop before the 1960s. “Baker
Street” was named by a group of National Outdoor Leadership School (N.O.L.S.)
students in 1982, who included: Mike Scholl, Dan Swenson, & NeNe Wolfe and
on a second trip: NeNe Wolfe, Vince __?, Becky ___?, & Bob ___?. I don't
know any of their last names on the second trip. I wonder if this “Baker Street”
refers to the famous street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London,
which is most famous for its connection to the fictional detective Sherlock
Holmes, who lived at 221B Baker Street, an address
that does not actually exist? However, I'm actually not sure why they named it Baker Street?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
hope this helps. Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions or
information that can shed some more light on the subject.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[v]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This additional
information agreed and expanded on a reference from the park’s web site. “Individuals
and groups that have been involved in the survey of the Historic zone of Wind
Cave include Alan Howard (1962), Windy City Grotto (1970-1973), National Park
Service (NPS) staff (1971-present), Gartzke-Kopp [Black Hills Spelunkers]
(1974), Bruce Zerr (1976), the National Outdoor Leadership School [NOLS]
(1978-1989), and the Colorado Grotto (1990-present).”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[vi]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Knowing that
Scholl and Swenson were students (according to Wolfe’s earlier e-mail), and
that Park Service records indicated they were part of the National Outdoor
Leadership School (NOLS), I fired off an e-mail to NOLS staff asking if they
had any record of “my” explorers or their activities at Wind Cave. NOLS initial
response was negative; they had no record of Scholl or Swenson in their
database.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[vii]</span></span></span></span></a> A
second note to NOLS included Wolfe’s name, along with a reference received
from Rod Horrocks. In the meantime, I sent new notes to Wolfe and Horrocks inquiring
about any new information that might have surfaced, along with a request to
Horrocks for a more detailed location or map of Baker Street within the cave.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[viii]</span></span></span></span></a>
NeNe quickly responded with the names of other NOLS “cavers” who led classes
during the 1980s and Rod provided a more detailed cave map near the Baker
Street area.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[ix]</span></span></span></span></a> Names
of additional NOLS instructors were forwarded to Cha Caruthers at NOLS
headquarters along with a drafted note she promised to send to everyone on the
list for whom she had current contact information. As of today, no new word has
been received.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To be continued.... </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> E-mail
to NeNe Wolfe, December 5, 2005. Dear Dr. Wolfe, Please excuse this note if
I've contacted the wrong Dr. Wolfe. I'm trying to find the NeNe Wolfe who,
along with Mike Scholl and Dan Swenson, was involved in naming a cave room at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota. The specific cave room is “Baker
Street.” I'm trying to find out how this name was chosen, if it has any
connection with the Baker Street
of Sherlock Holmes' London,
and if you might have contact information for either Mike Scholl or Dan
Swenson. Thank you for any insights you might have and, again, my apologies if
this message has gone to you by mistake.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a> E-mail
from NeNe Wolfe, December 8, 2005.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a> E-mail
to NeNe Wolfe, December 8, 2005. Hi Nene, Thanks for responding. Basically I
wanted to know more because a) I visited Wind Cave two summers ago, saw the
cave room name while taking a tour, found your name on the Wind Cave web site,
and was curious, b) I'm curator of the world's largest collection of material
related to Sherlock Holmes, and c) I'd like to write up my findings on how this
room was named…. Hope you have great travels in Mexico. No rush, but I'll look
forward to anything you turn up after you get back home. Take care, Tim</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[iv]</span></span></span></span></a> E-mails
to NeNe Wolfe February 17, 2006 and September 5, 2006. These and other messages
bounced back to me; Dr. Wolfe’s e-mail box was full and not accepting
additional messages.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[v]</span></span></span></span></a>
E-mail from Rod Horrocks, September 12, 2006. Horrocks has written extensively
about Wind Cave. In an article co-authored with <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bernard W. Szukalski, “Using Geographic
Information Systems to Develop a Cave Potential Map for Wind Cave, South Dakota”
(<i>Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 64</i></span>(1): 63-70) the authors
state in the abstract that “Based on passage density, the length of the Wind
Cave survey could range from 400-1760 km. Since the current 166 km of survey represents
no more than 40% of the minimum predicted length of the cave or as little as 9%
of the maximum predicted length of the cave, a tremendous amount of surveyable
passage remains in the system.”</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[vi]</span></span></span></span></a> <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wica/naturescience/brief-history-of-the-exploration-of-wind-cave.htm">http://www.nps.gov/wica/naturescience/brief-history-of-the-exploration-of-wind-cave.htm</a>
(Accessed October 30, 2015).</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[vii]</span></span></span></span></a> E-mail
from Cha Caruthers, NOLS, June 11, 2008.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[viii]</span></span></span></span></a> At
this point the reader will realize that the hunt for information has lasted over
a decade. I went back and covered earlier terrain to see if anything new had
popped up since the quest began in late 2005.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[ix]</span></span></span></span></a> E-mails
from NeNe Wolfe June 20, 2008 and Rod Horrocks June 25, 2008. “Hi Tim, I haven't
forgotten your request.....actually have been thinking of other people that may
help you and who maybe remember....I can't remember if I suggested trying to
find thru NOLS in Lander Wyoming, these people who caved then and may have
named it. They are old NOLS instructors of that era: Kathy Bogan, Waco (I think this fella's
real name is Ron Weissinger ?), Walter Fish, Heather Pullen, Merl (can't think
of his real name), Steve Matson. I believe the person to talk to in Lander
(NOLS) is a person named Willy Cunningham who remembers all these folks and
also is the alumnie (sic) coordinator etc and can tract folks from the past. Hope
this helps ! Ne2” Messages were sent to Bogan, Weissinger, Fish and Matson in
August 2008. Three of the four<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">—</span>Bogan, Weissinger, and Fish<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">—</span>responded, but
unfortunately in the negative; they didn't have any answers that would help
solve the mystery. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both Wolfe and
Caruthers suggested I contact Willy Cunningham, the NOLS alumni projects
coordinator in Lander, Wyoming.
He was contacted in August and November 2008, replied that he didn't have any
information, but suggested asking Steve Matson and Haven Holsapple at NOLS. Holsapple's
reply came back negative; no word has been received from Matson. In the
meantime, another e-mail has gone to Wolfe, asking her to clarify her role on
the original trip and if she remembers anything else about Scholl or Swenson
that might help track them down.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This is a story I've been working on for some time (as will be apparent by old dates in the notes). Lacking a traditional publisher, I've decided to post this online, in parts, with a hope that by posting it others might stumble across the story and help solve the mystery. TJ</span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“There were, it is true, small grottoes and caves
in the base of the cliffs, but the low sun shone
directly into them, and there was no place for concealment.”
</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Arthur Conan Doyle,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">While vacationing in the American West a few years ago, our
travels led to the Black Hills of western South Dakota. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to various sources “the name ‘Black
Hills’ comes from the Lakota ‘Paha Sapa,’ meaning ‘hills that are black.’ Seen
from a distance, these pine-covered slopes, rising several thousand feet above
surrounding prairie, appear black.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> Such
natural—and sacred—beauty resulted in six national parks, two national forests,
two national grasslands areas and four state parks. Such park making did not sit
well with indigenous populations, but that story is best told elsewhere, and by
others. This little narrative focuses on a possible Sherlockian mystery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One day, we explored two
underground marvels—Jewel Cave National Monument and Wind Cave National Park. In
the morning, we investigated Jewel Cave, currently mapped and surveyed at 175 miles
in length, the third longest cave in the world.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a> Abundant
calcite crystals within led to its name. In the afternoon, we journeyed to Wind
Cave, seventh longest cave in the world.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a> President
Theodore Roosevelt established Wind Cave as a national park in 1903, the
seventh so designated in the park system and first cave given international protection.
Little did I know that this cavern offered a puzzle, connected—possibly—with Holmes
and his London abode.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Known to the
Lakota people—who spoke of a hole in the ground that blew air—Wind Cave was not
documented by white settlers until 1881, when its entrance was noticed
by two brothers, Jesse and Tom Bingham. Atmospheric pressure changes cause
wind movements in or out of the cave; thus its name. Wind Cave is noted for
displays of calcite formations known as boxwork and frostwork. I visited Wind Cave
as a young boy, during a family vacation in the summer of 1969, and marveled at
these formations. At that time, a discovery linking Holmes and cavern was, as
you’ll see, impossible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A number of
different tours of varying length and stamina are offered by park staff
including Garden of Eden, Natural Entrance, Fairgrounds, and Candlelight. We
chose the Natural Entrance tour, a moderately strenuous walk of about ninety
minutes that moves through abundant boxwork. Tours begin near the cave’s natural
entrance—a ten by sixteen inch hole through limestone. Although this was the
original point of entry in the 1880s, the park service created another, more
convenient, walk-in entrance for modern visitors. Contemporary access begins
with a stairway, about 150 steps, to a group of cavernous middle level passageways.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop,
approached by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the
mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search.” </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Arthur Conan Doyle, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Man With the Twisted Lip</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There are no
slop or gin shops near Wind Cave’s entrance, but searching for a certain den
soon became a reality. While waiting for our tour guide, I studied a detailed cave
map and noticed a room name that caught me by surprise: “Baker Street.” How did
this appellation find its way on the chart? Who christened this part of the
cave? Did they know the canonical stories? Were they Sherlockians? Questions
crystallized in my mind. It was not until returning home to books and computer that
I began putting more pieces together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My search started at the Wind Cave
National Park internet web site. Web pages provided limited information on each
named room or passage in the cave. A list of rooms beginning with “B” provided a
table with additional facts.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[iv]</span></span></span></span></a> “Baker
Street” received its name in November 1982 from Mike Scholl, Dan Swenson, and
NeNe Wolfe. (The Sherlockian/Great Game player in me humored over the question:
“Is NeNe any relation to Nero?”). An explanation column in this list, where I
hoped to find some reason for the naming, read: “The southern continuation of
Wall Street.” No joy there. Baker Street and Wall Street are located within the
“Historic” cave zone. Other zones include: Colorado Grotto, Club Room, Lakes, Half Mile
Hall, North, Silent Expressway, Western Fringe, and Southern Comfort. (Cavers
are delightfully creative in creating names.) Additional web site searches showed
that Scholl, Swenson, and Wolfe named Wall Street in 1981<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[v]</span></span></span></span></a>
and that as late as November 1995 Paul Burger, Evan Anderson, and Hazel Barton journeyed
to Baker Street and surveyed an additional 394.3 feet of cave.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[vi]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I now had a
date, three names, a location in the cave, and an unsatisfactory explanation
for naming the room. There is no continuation of Wall Street in New York City known as Baker Street. There is a Baker Avenue in the Bronx, but
no street by that name in the city. Interestingly, there is another New York Wall
Street. Northwest of Jamestown, on the western edge of New York and south of
Stebbins Corners, a Wall Street runs north and south, bends east, and is
continued by Baker Road. About three miles to the southeast, as the crow flies,
even closer to Jamestown and running east-west from the city, is Highway 30,
otherwise known as Baker Street. Could it be that one of our three explorers
hailed from western New York and exercised a little poetic license in naming a
new cave room? I had more questions than answers. It was time to track down
names.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To be continued... </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> United
States Forest Service web site, <a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/blackhills/about-forest">http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/blackhills/about-forest</a>
(accessed October 29, 2015).</div>
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<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a> The Mammoth Cave
system in the state of Kentucky
is the longest, currently measured at 367 miles. See <a href="http://www.caverbob.com/wlong.htm">http://www.caverbob.com/wlong.htm</a>
(accessed October 29, 2015) for a list of the world’s longest caves.</div>
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<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a> <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wica/naturescience/cave.htm">http://www.nps.gov/wica/naturescience/cave.htm</a>
(Accessed October 29, 2015). According to Rod Horrocks (e-mail of August 19,
2008) the current length of Wind
Cave is 129.55 miles. My
thanks to Horrocks for reviewing this article and offering helpful comments.</div>
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(Accessed June 19, 2008). See the newer page at <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wica/historyculture/wind-cave-room-names-b.htm">http://www.nps.gov/wica/historyculture/wind-cave-room-names-b.htm</a>
(Accessed October 29, 2015).</div>
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<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8512222432311537777#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[v]</span></span></span></span></a> http://www.nps.gov/archive/wica/Room_Name-W.htm
(Accessed June 19, 2008). See the newer page at <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wica/historyculture/wind-cave-room-names-w.htm">http://www.nps.gov/wica/historyculture/wind-cave-room-names-w.htm</a>
(Accessed October 29, 2015).</div>
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A small framed piece in my office, a gift from one of our Holmes donors, captures a few words from Christopher Morley. I have not yet tracked down their source:<br>
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Motto<br>
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Energy is not endless,<br>
better hoard it for<br>
your own work.<br>
Be intangible and<br>
hard to catch.<br>
Be secret and<br>
proud and inwardly<br>
unconformable;...<br>
dodge every kind<br>
of organization, and<br>
evade!<br>
elude!<br>
recede!<br>
Be about<br>
your own affairs, as<br>
you would also forbear<br>
from others at theirs,<br>
and thereby<br>
show your respect<br>
for the holiest<br>
ghost we know --<br>
the creative<br>
imagination!<br>
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I'm not sure this is the best advice for one working in a large organization such as a research university, but I sometimes find myself moving in this direction.
</div></span>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-76546469533512576612015-01-22T08:40:00.001-06:002015-01-22T09:41:29.021-06:00Sabbatical Musings<br />
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I've been away for some time, mostly on sabbatical, but occupied with other things as well. This post originally appeared on our departmental blog, "Primary Sourcery," last November. Now that I'm back, I hope to post on a regular basis.<br>
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Longevity does not guarantee acceptance of a leave proposal. University Libraries policies on these types of leaves are clear in their purpose and expectation. “Professional development leaves are provided as an opportunity for Professional and Administrative (P/A) staff to enhance their professional knowledge, skills, and performance related in a substantial manner to the individual’s role or potential role in the University Libraries. These leaves are designed to bring benefit to the individual, the unit and the institution. Leaves of this type are not entitlements and do require approval.” The approval process is not easy, nor should it be. My application went through a number of revisions and discussions before it was finally approved in January 2014. My proposal called for a twelve week leave, June 9 to August 29. <br>
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Once on the other side of the approval process, and with my project in hand, I felt a weight of expectation and a desire to make full use of this time. I realized that I was enjoying a benefit not available to many in the workaday world. It pleased me that the University understood the importance of such a leave, or as it is stated in the call for applications: “Professional development is a strong value of the University community, and the Libraries support this value to the extent possible.” I was (and am) thankful to my colleagues and a university that makes such a leave possible.<br>
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The overall goal of my sabbatical was to complete at least one article deemed appropriate for publication in a peer-reviewed professional journal. My chosen subject was the closing of the University of Minnesota Library School, of which I am a graduate. For the last two years I have been researching and drafting a book-length manuscript on the closing. Following presentations, discussions, and consultations with colleagues, academic publishers, library/information studies faculty members, and administrators it seemed wise to focus attention on an article-length treatment of some of the issues raised by the Minnesota closing (which occurred in 1985). It also seemed prudent to attempt to put the closing into the broader contexts of library education and higher education. I spent the first weeks of my leave reviewing and reading the literature; the latter part of my time I wrote and read some more.<br>
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It was a productive twelve weeks. I completed an extensive literature review on library education and library school closings. The review covered 3,338 citations to books and articles related to library education, library history, historiography, and higher education. As a result of this review, I read fourteen books and 149 articles during the course of my leave. A final draft article on library school closures of 12,516 words was completed. This article went to six readers for review and comment—two library educators, a history professor, a publisher, editor, and LIS graduate student. Some reader feedback has been received, with the remainder expected later this fall. I plan to submit the article for publication before the end of the year. A second article, not related to my major project, was drafted and submitted to editors at American Libraries in response to a general invitation received on social media. A third article, still in its early stages, was begun as follow-up to a panel presentation I made at this summer’s Association of College and Research Libraries/Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Preconference in Las Vegas. The article’s focus is on potential futures in special collections, rare books, or archival work for early career professionals. I hope to finish this article by early winter and submit it for publication.<br>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF5wLimpzAUomjbVX36-B-OLh0hquTcXO04-rU5PGeUhXdlnPcEfljJ8nd-7z7wHQMq8esZPDQe_5nD3LceQqZO0VHYMzwWQ26c5eepHIXLTbRTO70jGEcKGHtoKofX_HGl8Pt81YLwbo/s1600/2014-08-06+14.40.44.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF5wLimpzAUomjbVX36-B-OLh0hquTcXO04-rU5PGeUhXdlnPcEfljJ8nd-7z7wHQMq8esZPDQe_5nD3LceQqZO0VHYMzwWQ26c5eepHIXLTbRTO70jGEcKGHtoKofX_HGl8Pt81YLwbo/s200/2014-08-06+14.40.44.jpg" /></a></div>My choice of venue for all this reading and writing was the highly acclaimed University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The Arboretum is about eleven miles from my home and offered an ideal setting away from those distractions of domestic life: an urge to mow the yard, weed the garden, or wet a fishing line in one of the state’s alluring lakes. The Arboretum’s Horticultural Library provided the perfect environment for quiet, uninterrupted work. When not working in the library, I often set up at an outdoor pavilion, picnic table, or bench near one of the trails. To clear my head, or ponder some reading, I took to the trails and stretched my legs. The Arboretum was a perfect place to spend my leave. Two other venues saw the balance of my work: home and a lakeside cabin near Garrison, Minnesota. I rested and exercised—in the fullest sense of those words—during my leave and came away physically, emotionally, and intellectually refreshed.<br>
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The feeling of peacefulness or rest inspired by the Arboretum fed a more timeless sense of sabbatical, one that I cherish and honor—“of the nature of a Sabbath or period of rest.” The Oxford English Dictionary informs me that the word “sabbatical” entered the English language in 1599. But the ethical or justice issues associated with this word have a much longer heritage and ancient use. The academic use of the term sabbatical continues to carry this premodern sensibility, if in a slightly altered form. A sense of release and freedom, of letting the land of everyday concerns lie fallow, was palpable. At the same time, a new sense of daily discipline laden with different expectations was unmistakably evident. There was vitality in this newfound tension between release and responsibility I found invigorating.<br>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqyaFTrBzD7b6DtNJ2_DfjOF9hNxENbARa2WnZE0UGw5ohnYKxgosLo-AeZRZcBjyVi-rAwzaipPpgcG395YomIYHnMu82Us9vmAMzczbvDCAg5MuxFT1M7u_ZWvn661wCpUbufVq10w/s1600/2014-07-30+09.25.12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqyaFTrBzD7b6DtNJ2_DfjOF9hNxENbARa2WnZE0UGw5ohnYKxgosLo-AeZRZcBjyVi-rAwzaipPpgcG395YomIYHnMu82Us9vmAMzczbvDCAg5MuxFT1M7u_ZWvn661wCpUbufVq10w/s200/2014-07-30+09.25.12.jpg" /></a></div>Part of this vitality was found in the almost daily reflections I had on the nature of librarianship as a profession. Some of the many articles and books I read during my break speculated whether we could use “profession” or “professional” to describe our work. I believe it is a profession, even if I might choose “vocation” to describe my own entry into this world thirty-three years ago. It is a world that wrestles with many of the same issues it did decades ago: recruitment, appropriate education or credentialing, accreditation, job markets and placement, continuing education, academic freedom, censorship, image and stereotypes, public support and funding, advocacy, technological impacts, values and ethics. Through all the permutations and experiences there remain a set of core values. Part of my questioning and pondering during this break from routine revolved around this question: what are the profession’s core values?<br>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6fWur8dcQrisp87pHhID_uuMCH2G8554BPw7PMuaqegNupc-zlCN-HhG8pP825vMuqMdUYAeuShMNpfTroeChPWs1leJFon_7Xd4st2y9r8PlsHC3v3kGaCVwKlnJ3jnsyQu_gh3Miw/s1600/IMG_6104.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6fWur8dcQrisp87pHhID_uuMCH2G8554BPw7PMuaqegNupc-zlCN-HhG8pP825vMuqMdUYAeuShMNpfTroeChPWs1leJFon_7Xd4st2y9r8PlsHC3v3kGaCVwKlnJ3jnsyQu_gh3Miw/s200/IMG_6104.jpg" /></a></div>On a cabinet in my office is taped a single sheet of paper with what might be described as my modus operandi: Collect stuff + Describe stuff + Preserve stuff + House stuff = Accessible stuff. It is, I readily admit, a simplistic motto. Each action word is freighted with decades, if not centuries, of thought, careful study, conversation, writing, and resolution of what these activities mean in the context of life in this profession. At the same time, this maxim describes much of what I do as a librarian/curator. I am a creature of my culture and responsible for the stewardship of a small portion of this cultural estate. How I go about my task is informed by who I am, my training and experience, institutional goals and priorities, political and economic realities, professional and governmental initiatives, and much more. My professional core values live in this milieu. In them I live and move and have my being (or at least part of my being).<br>
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I was called to this profession following a year’s contemplation after college and from an answer to a question I received from a very helpful reference librarian who opened many doors for me as an undergraduate. My question: how can I do what you do? Her answer: the American Library Association (ALA) Directory pages listing accredited programs, an exhortation to closely examine each program, and an invitation to apply to the programs of my choosing. I am forever indebted for her answer. Living, as I was, in Michigan at the time, some might argue with my final choice of program, given the ultimate demise of Minnesota’s library school. But Minnesota did what I asked it and demanded it to do. I learned my craft at the feet of someone once termed a “young turk” and “more radical than many of the established leaders” in the profession. I practiced with some of the best subject bibliographers and archivists in the business. I watched a library system at war with itself while learning the basics of lobbying legislators, administrators, and regents in our attempt to save the program. My education as a professional happened both within and beyond the classroom. It was a valuable experience. I have no regrets.<br>
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My sabbatical created a new professional interest: library history. Like my choice of Minnesota for a graduate program, some might question this newfound attraction and relevance of a sub-specialty in a field increasingly dominated by technology. My answer might echo the words of Sherlock Holmes: “Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.” In my case, it is history in the blood. My academic training outside of librarianship—undergraduate and graduate—was in history. My sabbatical brought with it a new resolution: it was time for me to become involved in ALA’s Library History Round Table.<br>
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Much of my reading during the sabbatical was in library history; it relates to my questions about the closing of the program at Minnesota. Among the many passages I read, these two quotations are a good sample and indicative of why I have become interested in this part of our profession:<br>
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• “History haunts me with a sense of lost opportunities.” (Louis Shores) <br>
• “Historical study develops practical and political skills needed to assess what is going on today and to prepare for the future: it builds immunity to the destabilizing effects of future hype and current happenstance….The more we are confronted with the new, the greater our need for the wisdom and understanding that come from historical knowledge.” (Barbara L. Craig) <br>
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I intentionally left the question of professional core values to the end. What are those values? The American Library Association has a page on its website that addresses the question. But for me the answer comes back to the reference librarian who directed me to the profession in the first place. Her example, wisdom, expertise, presence, excitement, guidance, and much more were all the convincing I needed that this should be my profession, my calling.
</div></span>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-28162542807759068802014-04-16T11:35:00.001-05:002014-04-16T11:35:33.031-05:00Retrofit 5: The Competency Trap<br />
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This is my fifth “thinking out loud” installment in preparation for the RBMS seminar “Retrofitting Expectations or Redefining Reality: What Does the Future of the Special Collections Professional Look Like?”<br>
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I need to reexamine an earlier piece to this mental puzzle, a piece picked up and pondered in my <a href="http://umbookworm.blogspot.com/2014/02/starting-with-pieces.html">first installment</a>: the issue of competencies. In that post I made the following statement:<br>
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<i>…we should deal with the real [professional] image, or at least the one we talk about in terms of <a href="http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/comp4specollect">professional competencies</a>. It is here that we need to begin, to take a long, hard look in the mirror, and see if we like the reflection. With any luck, and perhaps with a bit of skill and guidance from others wiser than ourselves, we’ll see (or are in the process of seeing) “a professional who gradually achieves such general proficiency over the course of his/her career” and “a sense of community and common identity among special collections professionals” that at the same time helps “others to understand our work.”</i><br>
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I referred to the RBMS “Guidelines: Competencies for Special Collections Professionals” as a proper starting point for an examination of our professional future, a mirror for self-examination and reflection.<br>
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In my <a href="http://umbookworm.blogspot.com/2014/03/retrofit-2-building-on-competencies.html">second post</a> I admitted to some difficulty with this approach. A look in the mirror tells us who we are, “the reality of the work we do.” Our reflection might spark memories of a professional vision—our dreams—when we entered the field. If we’re lucky, the looking glass might even offer hints to future directions, as we compare our present reality with what the Guidelines ask us to be, or to become. But it is not a magic mirror. It cannot tell us the future. It is not something we can step through, like Alice, into an alternative universe.<br>
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Or can we? Perhaps we need a different approach, or a different perspective. Looking in the mirror—reflecting on our present status—can bring other thoughts to mind or bend us to other realities. If it doesn’t take us into Looking-Glass Land, it does something else: it suggests another answer, or another piece to the puzzle. We might find that the answer—or an alternate solution—was staring us in the face all the time.<br>
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I’m not suggesting any solution to this seminar riddle, merely another piece to ponder. In my case, the piece surfaced on Twitter. (Which makes me wonder, if only for a moment, and with tongue in cheek: is Twitter—or any social media for that matter—a magic mirror?) What suddenly appeared before my eyes was a string of tweets from the <a href="http://symposium.cul.columbia.edu/">11th Columbia Library Symposium</a>, specifically those related to a talk by Elliott Shore, Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries. It was the title of his talk that caught my eye, especially the last four words: “Fostering Leadership Across the Academic Library Organization: <i>Avoiding the Competency Trap</i>.” (emphasis mine)<br>
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The symposium tweets tantalized me. Obviously, I was not present at Shore’s talk; I experienced it via the Twitterverse. But I felt led in or around the mirror: here was another perspective worth examining. With not too much digging, I found Shore’s presentation slides <a href="http://symposium.cul.columbia.edu/program/">on the Columbia web site</a>. While it was not the same as being there, hearing his comments in person, the slides still gave me a sense of what he said, of the argument he made. Let me try to encapsulate those thoughts. The program description of Shore’s talk is a helpful starting point.<br>
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<i>There are all kinds of reasons for doing things in the future more or less as we have done them in the past, especially as one moves up in an organization — after all, one has succeeded so far, why change? The notion of the competency trap, applied to organizations since the 1980s, can be applied to us as individuals — and can blunt the possibilities for change. In this keynote, Elliott Shore…will recount what he has learned about suspending disbelief and share thoughts about building an environment that questions unexamined assumptions.</i><br>
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First, Shore provided a definition of the competency trap offered by Levitt and March in 1988, refined by Becker in 2004: “The position of an organization which uses a suboptimal procedure because it is good enough in the short run and so does not switch to a better one.” This raises a number of questions that I’ll ask here, but offer no answers—placeholders for further discussion: are the RBMS Competencies a trap? Are they suboptimal? If so, in what ways? In the same manner, are there flaws with institutional procedures, e.g. annual performance reviews, workflows, or supervision, that blunt possibilities for change? <br>
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Shore offered an example of a competency trap: the threat (economic and otherwise) felt by 19th century sailing vessels to the new technology of steam. Sail’s response was to add more masts, more sail, more waterline—all suboptimal procedures. Steam continued to threaten. Sail’s addition of more hull, masts, and canvas—what Levitt and March noted as a “favorable performance with an inferior procedure” led sail “to accumulate more experience with it, thus keeping experience with a superior procedure [i.e. steam] inadequate to make it rewarding to use.” By the early 20th century, sail had foundered; steam took over. Shore concluded that “incremental change lands you on the rocks” and that sail’s response to steam was an act of hubris.<br>
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Shore, as I interpret his slides, is looking for another path forward, something different than incremental movement. Borrowing from the work of John Seely Brown, Shore posits the belief that a) “the challenges we face are both fundamental and substantial,” b) our new normal is a state of “constant dis-equilibrium,” and c) “our ways of working, ways of creating value, and ways of innovating must be reframed.” Shore finds the path forward in the concepts of “disagreement deficit” and “being wrong” developed by Kathryn Schulz in her book <i>Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error</i>. <br>
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Disagreement deficit, as defined by Schulz and expounded by Shore, is a condition in which “people are naturally hesitant to disagree with those around them.” This condition goes further: “We not only believe what those around us believe, but we even see things as those around us see them.” In this deficit condition “our communities expose us to disproportionate support for our own ideas, shield us from the disagreement of outsiders, cause us to disregard whatever outside disagreement we do encounter, and quash the development of disagreement from within.” To be wrong is to wander. According to Schulz,<br>
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<i>To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.</i><br>
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Shore, taking his cue from Schulz, is saying it is all right to disagree, to be wrong. It is an adventure. Part of the adventure, within an organization, is to protect those who disagree and to allow the uncomfortable questions to surface: “Why can’t we do it this way?” “What is the worst thing that could happen if we try this?” “Our scholars learn from experiments—often more from unsuccessful ones—can we experiment with this idea?”<br>
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My takeaway from this reexamination of competencies is this: As we look at retrofitting expectations or redefining the reality of special collections professionals, we need to look and listen to those who disagree with us, to ask uncomfortable questions, be comfortable in our wrongness, and not be afraid of the journey. Where do we disagree? What experiments have we cooked up or are in play? Have we really spent enough time examining and learning from our failures? These, and others, are difficult questions to ask, especially when other entities are asking—on any number of fronts—for accountability or efficiency. Have we got the guts to do the hard things, to take the risk, to wander, be disagreeable or wrong? Do we have eyes and ears attuned to what we might not want to see or hear?
</div></span>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-80014375312116233122014-04-14T16:36:00.000-05:002014-04-14T16:43:22.519-05:00On the Road with Sherlock Holmes<br />
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This past October one of our Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections attended the premiere of “The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes” at the <a href="http://www.omsi.edu/">Oregon Museum of Science and Industry</a> (OMSI) in Portland. I was very pleased she could attend, especially as I was unable to travel west due to a previous engagement at the annual conference of the Minnesota Library Association. In February I had the opportunity to attend the second opening of the exhibit in Columbus, Ohio. It was a chance to see a dream realized. For the past three years I have worked with the team from <a href="http://www.exhibitsdevelopment.com/">Exhibits Development Group</a> and <a href="http://www.gmcurley.com/GMC+A.html">Geoffrey Curley and Associates</a> as a collections consultant to the project. My trip to the opening in Columbus was the first opportunity for me to see the final results of our work, and to follow Mr. Holmes across country in a tale Conan Doyle might have entitled “The Adventure of the International Exhibition.”<br>
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Excitement over the BBC/PBS Season Three television premiere of “<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ttws">Sherlock</a>” fueled further interest in the Portland exhibition. <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> featured actor Benedict Cumberbatch <a href="http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/01/15/this-weeks-cover-sherlock-benedict-cumberbatch/">on its cover</a> along with an article by Clark Collis, “Mad About Sherlock.” The exhibition enjoyed a very successful opening run through early January. After its closing, staff prepared to move the exhibition to its second manifestation at the <a href="http://www.cosi.org/">Center of Science and Industry</a> (COSI) in Columbus, Ohio. I followed this transit with interest, trailing trucks and crates with my arrival in the Buckeye state in early February. I was there to participate in a media preview and VIP reception before the second opening of this extraordinary exhibit.<br>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoNSAidT9tQC8Hlwy3kAf1ojgFnyi4QAvRXxP8_tpDEk2SCqlnRsOuUSuKphaTvQcjnJjI9sFYbDjPEZzXBC4039BjGg0oGSt0nncZ6j-P_HI0nJ_Ibd2lNY3ZdA0I3hm5NgssLD7bRHc/s1600/newsletter_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoNSAidT9tQC8Hlwy3kAf1ojgFnyi4QAvRXxP8_tpDEk2SCqlnRsOuUSuKphaTvQcjnJjI9sFYbDjPEZzXBC4039BjGg0oGSt0nncZ6j-P_HI0nJ_Ibd2lNY3ZdA0I3hm5NgssLD7bRHc/s200/newsletter_2.jpg" /></a></div>I arrived in Columbus on the heels of an eleven-inch snow storm. City workers dug through drifts and plowed streets as I settled into my hotel room across from the state capitol. On Thursday morning I walked the short distance to COSI, where I met Jaclyn Reynolds, Public Relations and Social Media Manager for COSI. Prior to my trip, Jaclyn and I discussed my participation in the media preview. An on-camera interview was set up with the local Fox television affiliate for their morning show, “Good Day Columbus.” On my arrival, Jaclyn introduced me to reporter Dana Turtle, who clued me in to what segments of the exhibition we’d be talking about on camera. These included displays related to the two television shows, “Sherlock” and “Elementary;” the Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law movies; items from the Collections (original artwork, books, and ephemera); and, finally, a crime scene recreated by the <a href="https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/Pages/default.aspx">Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension</a>. Unfortunately, there were some technical problems during broadcast (we were near the end of the exhibition and the long length of cable needed to support the camera and audio were not quite up to the task; blame it on Moriarty!). Our segment did go out on the airwaves, but was not used later on the web.<br>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh74HG6cPECghvr9jI3VUJMbZjOuc_jGCQOrXPYMcE2Dd9q00z9_F78LsWFTv0EsKiwzvU0jgBSqPx6admIXrsiWPp7GIllGuttG-mZtvxKsuyuvTfOmlFvzehPzQVikyyRGx4DXTEI6A/s1600/newsletter_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh74HG6cPECghvr9jI3VUJMbZjOuc_jGCQOrXPYMcE2Dd9q00z9_F78LsWFTv0EsKiwzvU0jgBSqPx6admIXrsiWPp7GIllGuttG-mZtvxKsuyuvTfOmlFvzehPzQVikyyRGx4DXTEI6A/s200/newsletter_4.jpg" /></a></div>With the conclusion of formal remarks, attendees were invited to stroll through the exhibition. At the entrance to the show they were greeted by Mr. Holmes, portrayed by local actor John Kuhn. I stationed myself near the 221B sitting room where I had a chance to chat with reporters and have a few photographs taken with Geoffrey and members of the COSI staff. Taking advantage of my tablet and social media, I tweeted comments and photographs on Twitter. Many of these were “re-tweeted” by COSI. Later in the morning I did an on-camera interview with Jaclyn and Doug Buchanan, COSI's Education Programs Marketing Manager. Reporters stayed late into the morning and the preview wound down around noon. Later that day, Ken Gordon from the Columbus Dispatch issued <a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2014/02/06/not-so-elementary-exhibit-puts-young-sleuths-on-case.html">the first print report</a>. “Visitors to the Sherlock Holmes exhibition opening Saturday at COSI Columbus will be invited to help solve a mystery by the great detective himself.” Edward Rothstein from the <i>New York Times</i> published <a href="http://nyti.ms/1f2x2Yn">his report</a> on Valentine’s Day.<br>
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My congratulations to everyone associated with the exhibition, notably Amy Noble Seitz and her staff at Exhibits Development Group; Geoffrey M. Curley and Cynthia Brown from GMC+A; and all the staff it was my privilege to meet at COSI, especially Jaclyn Reynolds and Josh Kessler. What began in creative sparks of conversation and a working title of Sherlock Holmes: The Science of Deduction has morphed into an engaging, educational, and entertaining production in The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes. I look forward to attending many more openings as the show makes its way across country and, perhaps, beyond our shores.
</div></span>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-16353381094094393672014-04-07T13:29:00.001-05:002014-04-07T13:31:07.212-05:00Retrofit 4: For the Love of Money<br />
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This is my fourth “thinking out loud” installment in preparation for the RBMS seminar “Retrofitting Expectations or Redefining Reality: What Does the Future of the Special Collections Professional Look Like?”<br>
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By most accounts, state support for higher education is dwindling. In part, this has been a state response to the recession and weak economy. James Hilton noted in a talk to Minnesota library staff that “our institutions face profound and existential change. As a society, we are redefining our beliefs about the purposes of higher education and our conceptions of what it means to be ‘educated.’ Along the way, we are changing beliefs about who/how to pay for public education.” <br>
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According to the <a href="http://www.acenet.edu/the-presidency/columns-and-features/Pages/state-funding-a-race-to-the-bottom.aspx">American Council on Education</a> (ACE): <br>
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<i>Despite steadily growing student demand for higher education since the mid-1970s, state fiscal investment in higher education has been in retreat in the states since about 1980. In fact, it is headed for zero. Based on the trends since 1980, average state fiscal support for higher education will reach zero by 2059, although it could happen much sooner in some states and later in others. Public higher education is gradually being privatized.</i><br>
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My state, Minnesota, is characterized by the ACE as one of the “biggest losers.”<br>
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<i>Minnesota has reduced its higher education investment by 55.8 percent…. Extending the trend since 1980 into the future, state funding for higher education will reach zero in 2037. But another extrapolation hits zero in 2032.</i><br>
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The National Association of State Budget Officers (<a href="http://www.nasbo.org/higher-education-report-2013">NASBO</a>) paints a similar picture, while suggesting different solutions. “Tighter state resources, rising costs, high tuition rates and other factors make the current model of financing public higher education unsustainable.” In a <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3927">recent report</a> The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indicated that Minnesota’s change in spending per student, adjusted for inflation, between fiscal years 2008 and 2013 was a negative 30.4%.<br>
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I’ll be retired by the time we reach the zero point. But my granddaughters will be in college. Will my state support their education in any way? Or will the entire burden fall to them and their parents? I’m not optimistic. <i>The Atlantic</i> recently published an article, “<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/the-myth-of-working-your-way-through-college/359735/">The Myth of Working Your Way Through College</a>,” that opened with these words: “The economic cards are stacked such that today’s average college student, without support from financial aid and family resources, would need to complete 48 hours of minimum-wage work a week to pay for his (sic) courses—a feat that would require superhuman endurance, or maybe a time machine.”<br>
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The University of Minnesota Law School is currently engaged in <a href="http://www.law.umn.edu/generations.html">a fundraising campaign</a> “to ensure the future of the Law School's high-quality education and service to the profession and the larger community” regardless of how the state decides to fund higher education. Their goal is $70 million; they are 90% of the way there.<br>
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<i>Throughout most of the Law School's history, the state of Minnesota heavily subsidized the cost of a legal education. But that funding has declined steadily over recent years. State support now represents only a very small fraction of the Law School's total budget, and that fraction is directed entirely to the Law Library, a resource we share with the University and broader community. In recent years, several other top public law schools that faced dwindling state funding made the move to financial self-sufficiency. Now the Law School is making that transition—to funding based almost entirely on tuition and philanthropy. A successful campaign will enable us to continue and expand on our agenda of excellence.</i><br>
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The University’s Carlson School of Management is in a similar situation. In a 2012 interview the school’s new dean, Sri Zaheer, made this observation:<br>
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<i>As of last year, state funding for our school was 3.5 percent of our total budget. We’ve had, for all intents and purposes, to live, breathe, and think like a private school. We have a proposal to charge a tuition surcharge to our undergraduate [business] students, and that plan is close to being finalized. Our student body has grown 20 percent or more in the past four or five years, but we haven’t been able to [expand] our tenure-track faculty. Any tuition surcharge we collect from the undergraduate program will be dedicated to hiring new faculty.</i><br>
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In seeking approval for our current university budget, administrators and regents agreed to a two-year freeze on in-state tuition in exchange for increased funding from the state. It is a high-tuition, high-aid model that increases graduate, professional, and out-of-state tuition along with fees and room/board costs. First-year resident law students expected to see their tuition rise by nine percent. We no longer have a professional library school on campus; it was swept away in financial crises of the 1980s. Were it still in existence, I wonder how long it could survive under today’s constraints.<br>
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Let’s bring this back to the concerns of special collections professionals. What does the future hold, given the bleak landscape of state funding for higher education? What do these numbers tell us, if anything? Are there different concerns for public versus private institutions? Here are a few more questions to consider:<br>
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• Will dwindling state support mean less public money for acquisitions or staffing? <br>
• Are we in the process of privatizing library operations? <br>
• If state-funded acquisitions money decreases, will we be more reliant on gift funds or endowments to make up the difference? <br>
• If so, would this reliance necessitate more time spent in fundraising and donor cultivation?<br>
• Or do we care about the difference and simply purchase less for the collections? <br>
• Will there be any new money for new staff, or will we rely on capturing funds from vacant positions and re-craft or re-design job descriptions as needed?<br>
• Will there be greater pressure to develop and gain acceptance of grant proposals to cover part-time or short-term staffing as part of an externally funded project?<br>
• How will preservation/digitization programmatic efforts hold up as state contributions shrink? (Or were the majority of these projects/programs always funded by external grants?)<br>
• Will older staff feel pressured to consider early or phased retirement? (And are we opening ourselves up to possible age discrimination lawsuits?)<br>
• How might increases in undergraduate student aid packages translate, if at all, in the number or quality of student assistants we employ?<br>
• Does the model of adjunct faculty, translated onto a library stage, mean the use of lower-paid, project- or function-specific personnel to sustain library operations? Or has the plight of adjuncts created such bad press that libraries don’t want to go there?<br>
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There are more questions. This is just a sample occasioned by the specter of diminished state support.<br>
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There are a number of other haphazard thoughts, issues, or ideas floating around my mind that have some bearing on our panel topic; all are connected to expectations or realities. State funding is one piece of that randomosity. Stand by for more.
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<i>“It is an amazing thing that the English, who have the reputation of being a practical nation, never saw the danger to why they were exposed. For many years they had been spending nearly a hundred millions a year upon their army and their fleet….Yet when the day of trial came, all this imposing force was of no use whatever, and might as well have not existed.”</i> — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “Danger!” (<i>The Strand Magazine</i>, July 1914) <br>
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Doyle’s plot is contemporary and straightforward. A small country, Norland, finds itself in a dispute with Great Britain over colonial boundaries. Events escalate over the deaths of two missionaries, presumably from the United Kingdom. The British, eager to protect their empire, issue an ultimatum, which expires in forty-eight hours. Norland’s King and Foreign Minister are ready to surrender and accept the British terms. However, Admiral Horli of the Norland navy and Captain Sirius, commander of a small submarine fleet of eight vessels, have other designs. They put their plan to the King and Minister, who, on hearing it, accept. The main Norland fleet will “be gathered under the forts of Blankenberg,” presumably the capital city, “and be protected from attack by booms and piles.” As Captain Sirius (the narrator of this tale) later relates,<br>
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<i>I need not trouble you by telling you the measures which were taken at Blankenberg, since, as you are aware, the fortress and the entire fleet were destroyed by the British within a week of the declaration of war. I will confine myself to my own plans, which had so glorious and final a result. The fame of my eight submarines…have spread through the world to such an extent that people have begun to think that there was something peculiar in their form and capabilities. This is not so.</i><br>
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What follows is the Captain’s account, running over the next month, from early April to early May, in an unidentified year, but clearly placed in the near future. “I am not here to tell you the incidents of the war, but to explain my own part in it, which had such a decisive effect upon the result.”<br>
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I will spare you the details, and try not to spoil the story, except to note that Doyle wrote this fictional account with a distinct purpose in mind: to warn his country of impending doom and to offer possible solutions. It was not the submarine, in and of itself, that was the danger. Rather, it was what this, or other instruments of war could do to starve his country into submission, or, as he wrote in a concluding imaginary leader in the <i>Times</i>, to explain “the meaning and lessons” of this tale: “Had we endured this humiliation at the hands of any of the first-class Powers it would certainly have entailed the loss of all our Crown Colonies and tropical possessions, besides the payment of a huge indemnity.” Doyle never explicitly identified who he believed an enemy power might be, but he came close in identifying the Norland cause with that of Germany, in a scene where the Captain’s submarine surfaces in the English Channel.<br>
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<i>When we rose, a large steamer flying the German flag was within half a mile of us. It was the North German Lloyd</i> Altona<i>, from New York to Bremen. I raised our whole hull and dipped our flag to her. It was amusing to see the amazement of her people at what they must have regarded as our unparalleled impudence in those English-swept waters. They cheered us heartily, and the tricolor flag was dipped in greeting as they went roaring past us.</i><br>
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Doyle’s proposals, given voice in the imagined <i>Times</i> leader, included: reformation of agriculture and trade policies to provide “sufficient food to at least keep life in her [Britain’s] population;” construction of “two double-lined railways under the Channel” to facilitate movement of goods and, presumably, armies; and “the building of large fleets of merchant submarines for the carriage of food.” Clearly, Doyle’s major concern was with having enough food to feed the nation during hostile times. <br>
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He didn’t have long to wait, or see his concerns come to life. A month after Doyle’s piece was published in <i>The Strand</i> his country was at war. In February 1915 German U-boats began attacking commercial targets. Three months later, in early May, the British passenger liner <i>Lusitania</i> was sunk, resulting in the loss of 1,153 passengers and crew, 128 of them American. German naval activities continued to ramp up until January 1917 when Germany formally announced the use of unrestricted submarine warfare.<br>
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I am not an expert on British agriculture or trade policies, so I do not know what impact Doyle’s story had on government policies concerning food or commerce during the war. It is interesting to note that <i>The Strand</i> saw fit to publish reactions to Doyle’s tale from “a number of naval experts” including seven British admirals. The longest response came from Mr. Fred T. Jane, founding editor of the long-running series of standard reference books on warships and aircraft, e.g. <i>Jane’s Fighting Ships</i>. As for Doyle’s support for a tunnel under the English Channel—an idea first suggested in 1802—it would take another eighty years before “the Chunnel” opened to rail traffic. <br>
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Why am I interested in Doyle’s tale? In part, my curiosity comes because I have always had an interest in “The Great War” or “The war to end all wars.” My grandfather, Joel Johnson, was in the 54th Pioneer Infantry Regiment and spent two years in France and Germany. I have a spent artillery shell he brought back from the war, with “Verdun” scrolled across the top. Beyond familial interest, we’re coming up on the centennial commemoration of the opening of the war. Over the next eight weeks I’ll be preparing an exhibit, in collaboration with <a href="http://www.edwardcurtis.com/christopher-cardozo/">Christopher Cardozo</a>, of photochroms that document a vanished European landscape. Most, if not all, of the images will be of a European countryside that disappeared or was altered as a result of the war. The exhibit may also include items from our World War One pamphlet collection and posters from the time. One of the books I hope to read in the next few months is Christopher Clark’s <i>The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914</i>. It came highly recommended from a friend and reader of these notes. I’m sure there are other titles you might recommend. I might also suggest a <a href="http://pietistschoolman.com/tag/world-war-i/">number of posts</a> by Chris Gehrz on his blog, <i>The Pietist Schoolman</i>. Chris taught a course at Bethel University on the war and led a group of students to Europe to <a href="http://pietistschoolman.com/2013/01/03/how-to-follow-along-with-our-wwi-trip/">visit a number of the sites</a>.<br>
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Doyle’s tale triggered a number of other questions, none of which I can answer, but worth thinking about all the same. We all face dangers of one kind or another. How will we respond?
</div></span>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-28898471437184040262014-03-18T16:27:00.001-05:002014-03-18T16:27:09.081-05:00Retrofit 3: C-I-C, C-L-I…M-O-U-S-E<br />
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This is my third “thinking out loud” installment in preparation for the RBMS seminar “Retrofitting Expectations or Redefining Reality: What Does the Future of the Special Collections Professional Look Like?”<br>
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My last post ended with a few basic and not very earth-shattering observations: our professional future (corporate and individual) is partially shaped by organizations external to our host institutions; other forces or movements also shape our future; and none of this is necessarily a bad thing. As an example, I highlighted the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) involvement with the RBMS guidelines on competencies for special collections professionals.<br>
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This trite conclusion, however, engendered questions with—I hope you might agree—a little more heft: Where is the balance (or tension) between individual professional expectations and corporate or administrative or institutional or external expectations? Who gets to be part of the conversation that determines or influences a balance point? Does such a balance point exist? (Which perhaps begs another question: Where—or what—constitutes a tipping point?) How many of our expectations and realities do we get to create (or at least have a say in their creation)? How many expectations are imposed from above or beyond, wherever (and whatever) “above” or “beyond” might be? Are we able to perform the core functions of our position or is something—The Next Big Thing—continually crowding in, begging for attention and completion?<br>
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I’m not ready to attempt an answer to any of these questions. For the moment I’ll let them hang there, like so many damp pieces on a clothes line. We’ll come back to them later.<br>
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In the meantime, I want to explore another relationship between my position, my library, and the <a href="https://www.cic.net/home">Committee on Institutional Cooperation</a>, aka The Big Ten.* According to its website: “For more than half a century, these world-class research institutions have advanced their academic missions, generated unique opportunities for students and faculty, and served the common good by sharing expertise, leveraging campus resources, and collaborating on innovative programs. Governed and funded by the Provosts of the member universities, CIC mandates are coordinated by a staff from its Champaign, Illinois headquarters.” Please note that governance and funding resides with the provosts, that is, with administrators.<br>
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References to ARL or the CIC (or pick your favorite organizational acronym) should not be interpreted as administrator or institution bashing in the course of these ruminations. Rather, it is simply my way of trying to identify centers of power and influence that bear on the seminar’s fundamental questions of retrofitting expectations or redefining reality in view of a future professional existence. The questions I raise are ontological questions, i.e. of being and becoming. (I will admit, however, to having some fun, at institutional expense, riffing on the Mickey Mouse theme for the title of this post: “Who's the leader of the club | That's made for you and me…”).<br>
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A number of collaborative projects exist within the CIC. One of these is the Center for Library Initiatives (CLI), staffed by a director, deputy director, project manager, and office manager. The CLI “focuses on three objectives—optimizing student and faculty access to the combined resources of our libraries; maximizing cost, time, and space savings; and supporting a collaborative environment where library staff can work together to solve their mutual problems.” Key projects for the CLI include: the <a href="https://www.cic.net/projects/library/digital-repository">CIC/HathiTrust Digital Repository</a>, <a href="https://www.cic.net/projects/library/book-search">Google Book Search Project</a>, <a href="https://www.cic.net/projects/library/shared-print-repository">Shared Print Repository</a>, <a href="https://www.cic.net/projects/library/licensing">Consortial Licensing</a>, <a href="https://www.cic.net/projects/library/scholarly-communication">Scholarly Communication</a>, and <a href="https://www.cic.net/projects/library/reciprocal-borrowing">Reciprocal Library Borrowing</a>.<br>
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In 2009, Big Ten special collections librarians met in Chicago. The last time this group gathered was in 1993. Five years ago the major topics of conversation revolved around “how can we expose our collections better in the Midwest,” identifying “strategies to bring researchers to the Midwest,” and “showing off riches and promoting the Big Ten brand.” The vehicles to make this happen included the Google Books and HathiTrust projects, along with development of a shared print repository. At the 2009 meeting, representatives (primarily directors of special collections) shared major campus issues; many of these were common across institutions: budget constraints, hiring restrictions or freezes, merging units/departments/libraries, moves, space planning, renovation projects, and space constraints. In the last five years there have been perhaps two or three conference calls between special collections directors about priorities or potential collaborations, but nothing substantive has happened. It seems safe to say that such spotty meetings or conversations are indicative of corporate interest—i.e. CIC provosts or university librarians—in special collections over the past two decades. <br>
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CIC-CLI Director Mark Sandler provided an overview of goals in the <a href="http://info.cic.net/eNews/CLI/default.aspx">most recent issue</a> of the CLI electronic newsletter. In other words, he provided a status report. I’ll not spend any time criticizing Sandler except to note that I found some of his comments condescending—hardly the kind of <i>esprit de corps</i> one wishes to develop in a collaborative universe. What is important to note—and to ask—is where special collections, or libraries writ large, fit into current CIC thinking. Sandler wrote:<br>
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<i>…I’m likely not doing justice to the breadth, depth, or significance of the collaborative work going on in the CIC offices and across our universities, but cataloging the accomplishments of CIC collaboration is not really my point here. Rather, I’m writing this in the new year to remind myself, the CLI team, and all of our wonderful CIC libraries/librarians that the goals of libraries can’t only be about libraries. Our library goals should be about advancing the interests of our campuses, higher education as a global institution, and the aspirations of scholars—both young and old—everywhere…. </i><br>
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<i>Within the CIC, our greatest strength in the CLI is that we work in close proximity to a broad array of campus concerns, aspirations, and opportunities. We see the future of libraries as inextricably linked to the success of these broader campus collaborations; collaborations about improving student learning outcomes, diversifying our university communities, enriching the research portfolios of our faculty, strengthening campus leadership, making our universities more cost-effective, or making athletic participation safer.</i><br>
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<i>For those who work in grand libraries, with their grand reading rooms and atria, it’s easy to look up at the high vaulted ceilings and mistake them for the sky. In other words, the goals of our campuses, states, and regions are not about libraries per se, but, rather, are about student success, impactful research, creative and uplifting works of art, world-changing invention, life-saving medicine, economic advancement, and social justice. Our work in libraries, and in the CIC-CLI, is to figure out how libraries connect to, support, and advance these larger goals. And, if we do manage to figure that out, we should next be thinking long and hard about how we convey our role—our value-add—to partners, funders and the beneficiaries of our work. </i><br>
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This is the universe in which I work and move and have my being. If I’m interested in retrofitting my expectations around the reality defined by the Big Ten, then it looks to me like I’ll need to focus on “student success, impactful research, creative and uplifting works of art, world-changing invention, life-saving medicine, economic advancement, and social justice,” or to put it more succinctly, to advance “the interests of our campuses, higher education as a global institution, and the aspirations of scholars—both young and old—everywhere.” Sure. No problem.<br>
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Of course, this begs another question: who calls the tune for the Big Ten? Or do they dance to their own tune?<br>
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*CIC member universities include: University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
</div></span>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-67707787879721257132014-03-11T16:10:00.000-05:002014-03-12T09:06:11.348-05:00Retrofit 2: Building on Competencies<br />
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This is the second installment in the development of my thinking on the RBMS seminar “Retrofitting Expectations or Redefining Reality: What Does the Future of the Special Collections Professional Look Like?”<br>
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In the <a href="http://umbookworm.blogspot.com/2014/02/starting-with-pieces.html">first installment</a> I argued that the popular image of a special collections librarian was a red herring; that it should be discarded in favor of an examination of <a href="http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/comp4specollect">professional competencies</a>; and that this was the proper base for comparing if “the reality of the work we do” resembles “our visions of the profession when we started.” However, even here I find myself crashing against the rocks. The comparison does not work, at least in my own mind, because I cannot remember what my vision was (or might have been) of the special collections profession before I started work in the field. I’m not sure I had a vision of the special collections profession twenty-eight years ago—when I stepped into my first archival job following a mixed six year career as an instructional services/reference librarian, library director, and medical librarian—except some ill-conceived and romantic notions, received in graduate school, that the reading rooms of special collections or rare books libraries were the closest I would ever come to a “holy of holies.” <br>
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What I do remember quite clearly was:<br>
a) the institution that hired me wanted to step up their game; they previously employed retired faculty as archivists; they wanted a professional presence and I was their identified candidate;<br>
b) the archivist from a local research university who served as a consultant to the search committee objected to my hiring because I came from the library world, with limited training or experience in archival practice; <br>
c) my graduate training in archival management and practice came from two people: a former President/Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, and a long-time, active member of the SAA; and, <br>
d) I spent the first year—of what ended up a twelve year stint—convincing the archivist/consultant that I was up to snuff for the position. This was my initial vision of the archival/special collections slice of the profession: proving my worth.<br>
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A professional environment laced with “proving one’s worth” is not a place I want to inhabit if we’re going to talk about redefining our reality. Neither is a romanticized impression of a rare book reading room as “sacred space” useful to me in examining the question of a future identity. I still believe that an examination of competencies is worthwhile; it helps inform both expectations and realities. But here, too, I’m feeling blocked. This sense of obstruction comes from the competencies themselves (approved by the ACRL Board in 2008). They are a set of guidelines developed by RBMS, i.e. they are in some ways “home-grown,” sprouting up from our own constructs and understandings of what it means to be a special collections professional.* <br>
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At the same time, the guidelines provide another clue, another approach for viewing expectations or realities: an examination of external motives or stimuli coming from beyond the institutional confines of special collections. Here is where the administrative voice sounds on stage, where administrators enter the conversation, and where questions are posed. My immediate concern is with the impetus for the guidelines on competencies, especially in the role played by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), a body constituted almost entirely of administrators (although the <a href="http://old.arl.org/rtl/speccoll/spcolltf/status0706~print.shtml">Task Force on Special Collections</a> included some practitioners).<br>
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ARL participation is unequivocal. The <a href="http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/comp4specollect#background">background section</a> of the introduction on competencies notes: <br>
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<i>Over the past decade, a number of factors have focused attention on special collections and the professional skills, academic credentials, and personal qualities needed for a successful career in special collections librarianship. In 2001 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) established a Task Force on Special Collections to further an agenda to maximize the full potential of special collections. Its <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041013063051/http:/www.arl.org/collect/spcoll/tforce/charge.html">charge</a> included, “Define core competencies among special collection librarians and create training opportunities.” In 2003 the ARL Board of Directors endorsed the statement “<a href="http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/special-collections-statement-of-principles-2003.pdf">Research Libraries and the Commitment to Special Collections</a>,” which described special collections as “one of the critical identifiers of a research library” and affirmed the “critical role” played by special collections in fulfilling the mission of research libraries.</i><br>
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<i>At that time, ARL directors also perceived a significant shortage of candidates ready to take on the responsibilities of administrative positions to be filled in the coming decade. The ARL Task Force consequently identified recruitment, training, and continuing education as high priorities on its agenda. A white paper prepared by the Task Force, entitled “<a href="http://www.arl.org/news/6/1092#.Ux9kac6wWCE">Education and Training for Careers in Special Collections</a>,” surveyed recent changes in professional education for special collections professionals and identified a number of new programs and initiatives emerging to meet recruitment and training needs. The white paper reiterated the importance of articulating competencies required by special collections librarians and acknowledged that education and training opportunities are needed at all career levels. </i><br>
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This background narrative also provides broader observations relevant to our RBMS seminar.<br>
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<i>These developments reflect profound changes in the roles, responsibilities, and expectations of special collections librarians. The changes parallel those in research librarianship generally and are chiefly the result of evolving information technologies. But they affect special collections most especially because special collections professionals work in increasingly diverse environments and carry an unusual variety of responsibilities. Individual career paths differ greatly. There is an expanding range of formats in collections, including three-dimensional artifacts and audio, visual, and digital materials. The audiences for our collections and services have grown to include students at all levels and members of the general public of all ages and backgrounds, both onsite and online. Although special collections have always encompassed both technical and public services work and professional assignments are often of broad scope, the digital environment integrates these areas more fully: instruction and outreach efforts require technical skills, and metadata librarians must have a keen understanding of users’ needs and preferences. Special collections librarians cannot succeed without effective collaboration with faculty and library colleagues. At the same time, expertise is now required in areas such as rights management and fundraising.</i><br>
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Beyond ARL’s role in stimulating creation of the RBMS guidelines, I’m interested in looking at other external forces, from organizations outside our individual libraries/institutions that mold or influence our expectations and realities. In my case, one organization I will attend to is the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (aka The Big Ten). <br>
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The basic point I am trying to make is this: our professional future (corporately and individually) is partially shaped by organizations external to our host institutions. Other forces or movements—societal, economic, political, technological, etc.—also shape our future. There is nothing new here. And this may not be a bad thing. What may be new, or at least provokes a question, is this: where is the balance? Who calls the shots? How many of our expectations and realities do we get to create (or at least have a say in their creation) and how many are imposed from above or beyond, wherever (and whatever) “above” or “beyond” might be? How often do our individual professional development goals come in conflict, competition or tension with institutional, consortial, or extra-academic goals? Are we able to perform the core functions of our position or is something administratively new and urgent continually crowding in, begging for attention (and completion)? Is the curator-scholar a <a href="http://umbookworm.blogspot.com/2013/12/an-end-to-curator-scholar.html">creature of the past</a>, left aside in favor of a rush to The Next Big Thing?<br>
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I find myself reading old issues of RBML, looking and listening for a past voice—a usable past—that will inform our present and future discussions. Perhaps I’m also looking for an earlier vision of the profession, wondering if any part of that vision is still relevant. I live in hope.<br>
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*Members of the Task Force on Core Competencies for Special Collections Professionals included: Kathryn Beam, chair (University of Michigan), Mark Dimunation (Library of Congress), Jackie Dooley (UC Irvine), Hjordis Halvorson (Newberry Library), Kris Kiesling (University of Minnesota), Beverly Lynch (UCLA), Margaret Nichols (Cornell), Alice Schreyer (University of Chicago), and Dan Slive (William Reese Company).<br>
</div></span>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-88147230308492392042014-02-13T09:41:00.001-06:002014-02-13T09:41:47.512-06:00Sir Arthur and the Olympic Games<br />
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The Sherlock Holmes Collections publishes a <a href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/holmes/friends-newsletters">quarterly newsletter</a> for Friends of the Holmes Collections. On a regular basis we publish articles focusing on items held in the collection (or found elsewhere in the University Libraries) that bear on Mr. Holmes or his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that were published fifty or one hundred years ago. Once or twice a year I create a new list of books or periodical articles to consider for our “50 Years Ago” and “100 Years Ago” columns and share this list with our volunteer newsletter editor and Friends president. They meet with me nearly every week to plan the next issue of the newsletter or discuss other matters related to the collections. This last Monday, during our weekly meeting, we came across a short piece written by Sir Arthur and published a century ago that was timely and too good to pass up.<br>
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In 1914—ten years before the first Winter Olympic Games—Heath, Cranton & Ousely, Ltd. of Fleet Lane, London published a book by Frederick Annesley Michael (F. A. M.) Webster entitled <I>The Evolution of the Olympic Games, 1829 B.C.—1914 A.D.</I> Webster—a javelin champion, Olympic coach, and author—was the honorary secretary of the Amateur Field Events Association. He recruited the President of this same organization, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to write a preface to the book. The introduction was written by His Grace the Duke of Somerset, Chairman of the British Olympic Council. (If this sounds a bit like <I>Chariots of Fire</I>, there is a connection: Webster knew and worked with Evelyn Aubrey Montague who ran steeplechase in the 1924 Paris Olympics—and who was depicted in the movie by actor Nicholas Farrell.)<br>
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Webster had a number of motives for writing this book. One senses some frustration and an awareness of the sun possibly setting on the British Empire. It also carries a ring of familiarity to our ears, with concerns about national stature and well-being. In the Author’s Preface Webster stated:<br>
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<I>It is only since our dismal failure at Stockholm in 1912 that the Modern Olympic Games have aroused any vital interest in the mind of the “man in the street,” and even then it has been a mere passing feeling of shame that we should fall so low as to be beaten by even the lesser European nations, who for generations past have been our pupils in all sporting pastimes…. My desire, in offering this book to the public, is that a better understanding of the Olympic movement may be acquired and a greater interest in athletics generated in the minds of the rising generation….While our youths prefer to watch rather than to practise the rough old games which first gave us the brave and devil-may-care spirit which has won us possessions the wide world over, it will be a courageous or a very foolish man who will maintain that the bull-dog breed is sound as of yore, in the days of the prize-ring and wrestling-booth.</I><br>
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Sir Arthur, also an athlete of some repute—he played cricket, tended goal for the Portsmouth football (soccer) club, and introduced skiing to the British public—followed Webster’s lead with his own observations on national pride and sport. British athletics historian Peter Lovesey wrote about “<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/08/09/conan-doyles-olympic-crusade/">Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade</a>” and paints this picture of Sir Arthur’s involvement:<br>
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<I>In 1910 he [Doyle] accepted the presidency of the English Amateur Field Events Association. Britain’s preoccupation with the more glamorous track events had left the nation far behind the USA and the Nordic countries in jumping and throwing. Britain’s showing in the Stockholm Olympic Games in 1912, a mere two individual gold medals and five in team sports, came as a shock to a nation that had dominated in the previous century. To quote F.A.M.Webster, “a perfect wave of popular indignation swept over the country, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . . . had his attention drawn to the position.” Conan Doyle’s own account tells us that in the early summer of 1912 Lord Northcliffe sent him a telegram “which let me in for about as much trouble as any communication which I have ever received.” Northcliffe (who in 1908 had raised nearly £12,000 to bail out the London Olympic Games) said Conan Doyle was the one man in Great Britain who could rally round the discordant parties and achieve a united effort to restore the nation’s Olympic status.</I><br>
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<I>Conan Doyle was a strong patriot. It is often assumed he received his knighthood because of his literary success, but Sherlock Holmes had nothing to do with it. The honour was given mainly in recognition of the writer’s much-translated booklet, The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Conduct, a British response to international criticisms of the nation’s role in the Boer War.</I><br>
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Writing from his home at Crowborough in Sussex, Doyle congratulated Webster on this determination to raise Olympic awareness.<br>
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<I>I sincerely hope that your efforts will bear fruit, and that we shall make a better showing in the future as compared with the best of other countries. We know that we have the material. There is no falling off there. I think the human machine is at its best in these Islands. But we have got into the way of doing things rather less thoroughly than they might be done, and that is the point that wants strengthening.</I><br>
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Conan Doyle also discussed another side to the Olympic movement, one often criticized or ignored: the role of money. He also had his eye on a rising power to the West.<br>
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<I>It is a very deplorable thing that we were not able to raise the money which would have made athletics more democratic, and put the means of practising them within the reach of the bulk of the people. We tried hard and failed. The result is that we build on a much narrower base than the United States, which has twenty athletic clubs to our one, and widespread municipal facilities by which every man has a chance of finding out his own capacities. This country is full of great sprinters and shot-putters who never dream of their own powers, and have no possible chance of developing them.</I><br>
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In Doylean fashion, the creator of Holmes laid down some lines of action.<br>
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<I>We sorely need also some methodical inspection of our public-school athletes, to put them on the right lines and save wasted or misapplied effort. I know how much you, Flaxman, and others have done in this direction; but no man who has his own work to do can spare the time which is needed for such a task. What you have done is, however, remarkable, and in 1916, when we shall have some national heart-searchings, your conscience at least will be at ease.</I><br>
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Other, more painful heart-searchings would come with World War One; the 1916 Olympics never occurred. The Flaxman Doyle referred to was Alfred Edward Flaxman, British track and field star who competed in the 1908 Olympic games. Flaxman died during the war, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. His remains were never recovered. Sir Arthur shared an Olympic moment with Flaxman at the 1908 games: the now legendary contest known as “Dorando’s marathon.” But that is a tale for another time (or you can read <a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/08/09/conan-doyles-olympic-crusade/">Peter Lovesey’s account</a> of the event and Doyle’s connection with it).<br>
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As you watch the Winter Olympics, remember Sir Arthur, his interest in skiing, and the support he lent to the Olympic movement.<br>
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<I>(This post also appears on "<a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/primarysourcery/">Primary Sourcery</a>," the blog of the Archives and Special Collections Department for the University of Minnesota Libraries.)</I>
</div></span>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-40230345983354342322014-02-12T10:26:00.001-06:002014-03-11T16:20:10.842-05:00Retrofit 1: Starting With Pieces<br />
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Like Sir Saul Enderby, chief of British intelligence MI6 in le Carré’s <i>Smiley’s People</i>, I can be “thick.” I sometimes need to plot things out, building a thought or idea step by step as if constructing a Euclidean geometric proof. Such is the case as I consider my contributions to a panel discussion/seminar slated for late June, part of the Rare Books and Manuscript Section (RBMS) preconference in Las Vegas. The preliminary description for the seminar — with the title “Retrofitting Expectations or Redefining Reality: What Does the Future of the Special Collections Professional Look Like?” — reads:<br>
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<i>Does the popular image of the special collections librarian match what professionals now find in their jobs? Fundamental changes in librarianship and academia are impacting departments and their staffs. New economic and technological realities are reshaping the demands of the communities we serve – both patron and employer. The reality of the work we do may not resemble our visions of the profession when we started. Today’s professional needs a new understanding of expectations and opportunities in order to succeed. This moderated “fishbowl” discussion will put questions to two library administrators and two professionals in order to clarify their expectations and goals. The seminar will aim to provide strategies for building a successful career in a changing field.</i><br>
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Am I showing my RBMS hand by thinking out loud here, thus diminishing any impact I might have during the seminar itself? I don’t think so. There is a slight risk of showing my ignorance, thinking foolish thoughts, or getting sidetracked along the way. I’ll take the risk. I need to get my thoughts in order and out in the open (or at least partially in the open), in the hope that someone might offer an interesting or useful comment, link me to an article or blog, or correct me along the way. I don’t want to spoil our Las Vegas gathering by disclosing too much. On the other hand, this exercise might plant a few seeds and put colleagues in a prepared and productive mode (or mood) once we arrive in “Sin City.”<br>
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I’m not going to attempt to build my entire argument (or statement, or contribution) in a single post. And I might not post all the parts here, as I pick out the various pieces of this puzzle, play with them, and put them in place. I might, after all, need to maintain some sense of suspense or anticipation as to where I finally land and what the puzzle ultimately looks like.<br>
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For starters, perhaps in a pedantic or pedestrian fashion, let me grab the first thread from the seminar’s description: the popular image of the special collections librarian. Is there such a thing? Certainly there’s the stereotypical image of a librarian—a thing (and topic) I abhor and believe unrealistic. So, right at the start, let's abandon this train of thought and all images, words, <I>etc.</I> associated with the stereotype.<br>
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The impression of a special collections librarian is more problematic, so let me attempt to get at such an image through the back door, as it were, by looking at archivists. (I will have more to say about the archival profession as I move through the various steps of my proof. Let me at least put a placeholder here for a thought worth pursuing later, one I may or may not agree with (but have heard uttered by others more than once): archivists—at least in the North American context—engaged in a silent coup as they took over RBMS leadership during the last decade, wresting control from bibliophiles.)<br>
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Richard J. Cox, in a blog post from 2006 entitled “<a href="http://readingarchives.blogspot.com/2006/11/what-should-fictional-archivist-look.html">What Should the Fictional Archivist Look Like?</a>,” asks: <br>
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<i>If an archivist were going to write a novel or mystery portraying an archivist or the work of an archives, what would be the difference between what he or she would write and what a professional writer might compose? Mostly, I suppose, the archivist might work hard to avoid the stereotypical features most writers easily resort to in their portrayal. What are those characteristics? They seem to be absent-mindedness, other-worldliness, clumsiness, dustiness, musty odors, awkwardness, and other features suggesting one who is far more comfortable with dead, rather than living, people.</i> <br>
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As to this stereotype, Cox observes: "Whatever the reasons, archivists are surrounded, buried in, layers of stereotypes, that they can hardly see their way through. But, still the question might be, what is the ideal way, if there is an ideal way that the archivist might be brought to life in a realistic fashion?"<br>
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Does Cox offer as a suitable image, something acceptable to the profession? Not really. Only hints, e.g. through the academic novels of David Lodge, but even here we have a problem as Cox adds another stereotypical image into the mix.<br>
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<i>Everyone knows that the great university is still home to many who have no hope of making a living in any other part of the world, adding to the amusement evident in the most recent trend in university administrators’ thinking or rhetoric, to reform their institutions into the corporate model. Assuming that a business is intended to make some degree of financial profit, it is wonderful to envision our splendid group of professors contributing to the profit line. Most experienced academics know that to transform their departments into business would be a sure way of killing their programs in a relatively short time – but the rhetoric and posturing along the way would be fun....</i> <br>
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<i>Indeed, a thread to work with here is that so many academic archivists are frustrated academics, people who spend years preparing for a teaching career and life of quiet solitude only to discover there were no jobs or they were, despite opportunities, unemployable as academics for some reason.</i> <br>
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If Cox leaves us with hints (skewering administrators along the way), Rachel Alexander provides more, at least in terms of stereotypes. In her “<a href="http://rachelalexandr.com/graduate/literature-review-on-the-image-archives-and-archivists-project-in-popular-culture/">Literature review on the image archives and archivists project in popular culture</a>,” Alexander provides another string of images, including: "middle-aged to elderly..., wearing glasses, and dressing sloppily or primly.... a 'fossilized anachronism who should have been put out to pasture long before....'" More images follow, none of them complimentary. I'll spare you the details. I’m sure readers can point to other articles, blogs, books, films, etc. with popular portrayals of archivists and librarians (who are often lumped together in those depictions). Unfortunately, I am still left with the original question in the seminar description: Does the popular image of the special collections librarian match what professionals now find in their jobs? <br>
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I think this is the wrong preliminary question to ask. We should scrap or ignore the popular image. We delude ourselves by thinking about or even briefly considering prevalent impressions. It is navel-gazing at its worst. If we got into this segment of the profession because of some quixotic idea of the scholar-bookman and no one in our graduate educational experience disabused us of our fanciful notions, then our professors are to blame for continuing the stereotype; we’re to blame for swallowing it hook, line, and sinker; and our administrators are to blame by leading us by the nose through poorly written or deceptive job postings (assuming such things exist).<br>
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Instead, we should deal with the real image, or at least the one we talk about in terms of <a href="http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/comp4specollect">professional competencies</a>. It is here that we need to begin, to take a long, hard look in the mirror, and see if we like the reflection. With any luck, and perhaps with a bit of skill and guidance from others wiser than ourselves, we’ll see (or are in the process of seeing) “a professional who gradually achieves such general proficiency over the course of his/her career” and “a sense of community and common identity among special collections professionals” that at the same time helps “others to understand our work.”
</div></span>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512222432311537777.post-49420220329024575702013-12-25T01:00:00.000-06:002013-12-25T01:00:00.615-06:00For the Season<br />
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<i>“People are at their best when they are able to use their talents and abilities — the traits and behaviors at which they naturally excel. Empowering your people to discover and develop their strengths will position them to do what they do best every day.”</i> — Gallup Strengths Center<br>
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I want to continue my seasonal rumination with a point made earlier: that what we might be giving up in the quest for a “utilitarian’s paradise” are those things found in the critiques of modernity made by Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis, i.e. (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/opinion/sunday/douthat-puddleglum-and-the-savage.html?smid=pl-share">quoting Ross Douthat</a>) that “the entire vertical dimension in human life, the quest for the sublime and the transcendent, for romance and honor, beauty and truth” is missing or being ripped from our lives. In <a href="http://umbookworm.blogspot.com/2013/12/an-end-to-curator-scholar.html">a recent post</a> I brought this missing dimension closer to home while reviewing current academic employment opportunities in archives and special collections: <br>
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<i>In my more caustic moments while reading the position descriptions I concluded that what most institutions are looking for are leaders, coordinators, collaborators, designers, overseers, and managers—not thinkers or writers who know something about the stuff to be cared for. These are positions, for the most part, more about providing access to the stuff, not a context for the stuff. We seem happy to leave the contextualizing to faculty, graduate students, and external scholars. We have dumbed down our collections by dumbing down the staff left to attend them.</i><br>
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One of my friends on a far coast, having read my post, picked out these sentences and offered a comment: “This has been going on in academia for a long time now. Schools are places for intellectual workers (as Josef Pieper called them), rather than scholars.” Her comment included a link to Pieper’s book, <i>Leisure—The Basis of Culture</i>, which I quickly checked out from the library and read this week.<br>
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Pieper’s book is very accessible, even to someone like me who is not accustomed to reading philosophical texts on a daily basis. In his essay on “The Philosophical Act” I was taken by the following passage:<br>
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<i>Therefore, it is all the same whether I say that the philosophical act transcends the working world, or whether I say, philosophical knowing is useless or whether I say, philosophy is a “liberal art.” This freedom belongs to the particular sciences only to the extent that they are pursued in a philosophical manner. Here likewise is to be found—both historically and actually—the real meaning of “academic freedom” (since “academic” means “philosophical” if it means anything!); strictly speaking, a claim for academic freedom can only exist when the “academic” itself is realized in a “philosophical” way. And this is historically the reason: <b>academic freedom has been lost, exactly to the extent that the philosophic character of academic study has been lost, or, to put it another way, to the extent that the totalitarian demands of the working world have conquered the realm of the university</b>….</i> (emphasis mine)<br>
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Now, lest you think this is just a bit of philosophically charged hot air, consider recent accounts in the news (or evident on campuses across the country) of charges against higher education: that it is expensive and increasingly irrelevant to jobs or corporate interests (or, from the business perspective—that they cannot find enough “educated” candidates for currently open and available jobs); that it suffers from “administrative bloat”; that student debt is reaching untenable levels; (A colleague told me this week of reading a scholarship application from a graduate student who carried a current debt load of $120,000!); or that athletics (at the Division 1 level, at least) is an “arms race.” Purdue’s new president, Mitch Daniels, <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/21/new-purdue-president-outlines-critiques-higher-education">offered his own list of criticisms</a>. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-14/bureaucrats-paid-250-000-feed-outcry-over-college-costs.html">Bloomberg</a> and the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323316804578161490716042814">Wall Street Journal</a> had more to say on bloat; my own institution was in their journalistic crosshairs. A search through the Internet will turn up more articles and essays on the current state of higher education. The critiques have even spawned a new area of study within (and without) the university: “<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/An-Emerging-Field-Deconstructs/130791/">critical university studies</a>.”<br>
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I do not doubt that American public <i>and</i> private higher education—I have no sense of what’s going on in other places of the world—is in the midst of “a period of profound and possibly traumatic change” (quoting the article from “<a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/21/new-purdue-president-outlines-critiques-higher-education">Inside Higher Ed</a>”). I would lean a bit to the traumatic side in this characterization. What we may be witnessing is a struggle (dare I say war) for the “soul” of higher education. It is a question of whether or not the victor in this struggle will accommodate—or attempt to obliterate—the vertical dimension in human life. (For another perspective, one that touches on some of the vertical aspects, read the <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/A-New-University-Can-Help-Save/143617/">recent commentary piece</a> by Ali Mohammad Al-Hussein Ali Al-Adeeb, Iraq's minister of higher education and scientific research.)<br>
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With these observations as preface, I find myself in a curious (and ironic/comic?) spot. My university, also known as my employer—stung by the comments about bloat (and hiring outside consultants to study the matter)—seems very interested in putting a lot of its staff through “StrengthsFinder©” training. The purpose of this training is clearly stated in the workbook I received at my session this last Tuesday: to increase employee engagement. As engaged employees (so we were told), we are loyal, productive, and less likely to have accidents or to steal. The Gallup folks (owners of StrengthsFinder©) claim that “research in business and industry showed a <i>Strengths focus</i> increased engagement, which lead to increased productivity, retention, employee satisfaction, and customer satisfaction” (quoting from the workbook, emphasis theirs). I find it interesting (and perhaps emblematic/symptomatic) that these findings in business and industry are wheedling their way into higher education. I might argue that I find my engagement through those vertical dimensions of my work. I’m not sure the Gallup folks would understand. The training (and its justification) smacks a bit of Pieper’s “intellectual workers” characterization. <br>
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What is comedic or ironic is that StrengthsFinder© —regardless of how it is employed in my work—may have accurately pegged me. One of my strengths—my “signature themes”—identified by the Gallup assessment was “Connectedness.” Descriptive phrases for this theme include a sense of being “part of something larger…Sensitive to the invisible hand, you can give others comfort that there is a purpose beyond our humdrum lives.” Another “signature theme” was “Intellection,” describing me, in part, as “the kind of person who enjoys your time alone because it is your time for musing and reflection. You are introspective…This introspection may lead you to a slight sense of discontent as you compare what you are actually doing with all the thoughts and ideas that your mind conceives…Wherever it leads you, this mental hum is one of the constants of your life.” Other strengths (or talents) identified by this assessment included “Learner,” “Context,” and “Deliberative,” but I’ll save you from a description of those themes.<br>
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Pieper, in concluding his thoughts on “the philosophical act,” makes these comments:<br>
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<i>This is the path along which the self-destruction of philosophy has traveled: through the destruction of its theoretical character, a destruction which in turn rests upon habitually seeing the world as the raw material of human activity. When the world is no longer looked upon as creation, there can no longer be</i> theoria <i>in the full sense [i.e. the purely receptive stance toward reality, undisturbed by any interruption by the will]. And with the fall of </i>theoria, <i>the freedom of philosophy falls as well, and what comes in its place is the functionalizing, the making it into something “practical,” oriented toward a legitimation by its social function; what comes to the fore is the working character of philosophy, or of philosophy so-called. Meanwhile, our thesis…maintains that it is of the nature of the philosophical act, to transcend the world of work. This thesis, which comprehends both the freedom and theoretical character of philosophy, does not deny the world of work (in fact, it expressly presumes it as something necessary), but it maintains that true philosophy rests upon the belief that the real wealth of man lies not in the satisfaction of his necessities, nor, again, in “becoming lords and masters of nature,” but rather in being able to understand <b>what is</b>—the whole of what is. (emphasis his) Ancient philosophy says that this is the utmost fulfillment to which we can attain: that the whole order of real things be registered in our soul—a conception which in the Christian tradition was taken up into the concept of the beatific vision: “What do they not see, who look upon Him, Who sees all?”<br></i>
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The understanding of “what is—the whole of what is”—this is the vertical dimension, the wonder, that I seek in my work and my life, an echo of something said long ago in the <i>Magnificat</i>.<br>
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Some may not identify with the <i>Magnificat</i>; it is not a part of their faith—if they have a faith—or what defines them. So be it. Questions of faith or being may be far, far away from what concerns us in our work. I would argue that they are integral to our work. Whatever the case might be for you, at this time of year, I hope it might still be fitting and proper to point to something beyond ourselves: to wish for peace on Earth, goodwill to all. Or, as my Dickensian namesake would say: “God bless us, everyone!”
</div></span>Tim Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553610681345423556noreply@blogger.com0