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Columnist for Maclean's Magazine (est. 1905). colbycosh@gmail.com
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RT @jrlind: @colbycosh wasn't Mycroft basically a bureaucrat-without-portfolio? just what the 1st son of a 3rd son of a 5th son of a duke w…
Folk etymology, surely, but nihil obstat. “@Ggulo: @colbycosh Does the modern "asshat" derive from the somewhat archaic "aesthete"?”
Sketch for a 21st-century Sherlock: a "social media expert" who has actual expertise, & who can use his power to do good & prevent crime.
"Consulting detective" is exactly the sort of thing a moderately-to-extremely-posh undergraduate would cook up.
I gather Holmes is supposed to be gentry/yeomanry according to the text, but one feels he cannot be far from the trunk of the aristo tree.
Holmes, with his cocaine abuse, his extreme personal habits, & his flamboyant clothing, is very much the Edwardian aesthete.
Sherlock & Mycroft are unusual among English fictional characters in not being especially class-stamped.
I called Sherlock the epitome of disembodied intellect, but I do realize it's actually his brother who's that.
@KenBoessenkool @kevinmilligan Not that I mentioned that either. I mostly just wanted to put the vote-swing numbers before the public.
@KenBoessenkool @kevinmilligan You both know more about it than I do, but I'd have to guess KinderSurprise was a bigger deal in context.
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