Sunday, February 5. 2012

branwen ferch llyr

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in an ideal world, i'd get to place a call with a bbc studio, order a script to be assembled of the most awesome story from the four branches of the mabinogi and before the year is out, branwen daughter of llyr would no longer be a dream, but would hit the cinemas. this would be my personal dream cast.

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Sunday, February 5. 2012

elementary sherlocking: 'his last bow' (1917)

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written towards the fag end of WWI, this last of holmes's cases, having been dragged out of his retirement in sussex as a bee farmer (i still think this is code speak!) like field marshall Blücher against napoleon, marks the beginning of parting with the detective. there is only one more collection of stories ahead -- that's another three months of reading and reviewing. and like the messrs holmes and watson are looking forward to retirement, i am looking forward to finishing this project of review madness. the parting will be bitter-sweet just like this last adventure in tieing up inept german spies.

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