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<title><![CDATA[O saptamana o carte....]]></title>
<link>http://bogdanstratulat.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/o-saptamana-o-carte/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bogdanstratulat</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bogdanstratulat.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/o-saptamana-o-carte/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Astazi o sa lansez un serial de posturi prin care imi rezerv dreptul de a recomanda o carte.. pe car]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Astazi o sa lansez un serial de posturi prin care imi rezerv dreptul de a recomanda o carte.. pe care poate unii o sa o citeasca pe care altii mai mult ca sigur nu&#8230;Dar instigarea la cultura nu e un pacat si chiar daca e, asta sa fie singurul meu pacat.</p>
<p>SA-i dam drumu&#8230;</p>
<p>Arthur Conan Doyle  :  Cainele din Baskerville</p>
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<title><![CDATA[This week's pictures [20]]]></title>
<link>http://cecinestpasdelart.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/this-weeks-pictures-20/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>KRS</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[sherlock holms]]></title>
<link>http://huccaby.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/sherlock-holms/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>huccaby</dc:creator>
<guid>http://huccaby.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/sherlock-holms/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Legendary Sherlock Holms of Conan Doyle fame,is this a miscast film? Robert Downy Jnr. and Jude Law?]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://dartmoorlegends.yolasite.com"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-44" title="sherlock holms" src="http://huccaby.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/wp_1_1024x768.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Legendary Sherlock Holms of Conan Doyle fame,is this a miscast film?  Robert Downy Jnr. and Jude Law?  Hollywood style,all effects with little in common with the original feel of Conan Doyle&#8217;s vision of Holms. The old classic Holms films featuring the likes of Basil Rathbone and the more recent series starring Jeremy Brett are much more nearer to how Holms should be portrayed,but the passage of time has not eluded the imagination on reading Conan Doyle&#8217;s novels,most noteably &#8216;The Hound of The Baskervilles&#8217;,atmospheric and dark partly due the story&#8217;s location-Dartmoor and in that the legend of a giant dog still persists on parts of the moors up to the present day. It may be that CD got his inspiration for the book from an actual legend in which the local squire (long dead and buried in Buckfastleigh Churchyard)takes to roaming the moor with a pack of hell hounds hunting for unfortunate souls who wonder onto the treacherous moor at night,<br />
just one of many tales about huge hounds or packs of hell hounds associated with Dartmoor,all plus more local legends can be found @<br />
<a href="http://dartmoorlegends.yolasite.com">dartmoorlegends.yolasite.com</a></strong></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Fairytale books of many colours: A Phase that has Lasted]]></title>
<link>http://echostains.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/fairytale-books-of-many-colours-a-phase-that-has-lasted/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>echostains</dc:creator>
<guid>http://echostains.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/fairytale-books-of-many-colours-a-phase-that-has-lasted/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, just one I read earlier - a lot earlier I am the sort of perso]]></description>
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<p><div id="attachment_5604" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 200px"><a href="http://echostains.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/the-yellow-fairy-book-by-andrew-lang.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5604" src="http://echostains.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/the-yellow-fairy-book-by-andrew-lang.jpg?w=190" alt="" width="190" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, just one I read earlier - a lot earlier</p></div></h3>
<h3>I am the sort of person that if I read something and I like it, and the way that it&#8217;s been written, I shall then proceed to read as much as possible by the same author.  So consequently, when I first discovered libraries I read one of the Andrew Lang <em>Fairytale books</em> (can&#8217;t remember which colour) which contained many fairytales and carried on until I had exhausted them all.</h3>
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<p><div id="attachment_5608" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://echostains.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/sam-pig-alison-uttley.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5608" src="http://echostains.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/sam-pig-alison-uttley.jpg?w=200" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sam Pig Alison Uttley</p></div></h3>
<h3>From there I progressed to Folk tales from different countries and this kept me going for a bit.  Other series that I liked reading as a child were the <em>Sam Pig</em> books by Alison Utterly.  I just like the way that these were written and the illustrations.  I read one <em>Sherlock Holmes</em> book and this lead to just having to read them  all.</h3>
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<p><div id="attachment_5605" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 206px"><a href="http://echostains.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/charlotte-brontes-jane-eyre.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5605" src="http://echostains.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/charlotte-brontes-jane-eyre.jpg?w=196" alt="" width="196" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Charlotte Bronte&#39;s Jane Eyre</p></div></h3>
<h3>When I discovered Charlotte Bronte&#8217;s <em>Jane Eyre</em> (which we had to read in school), I began to realise what &#8216;literature&#8217; was really about.  Dickens also had the same effect on me, I devoured nearly his books, with varying degrees of enjoyment (though I still haven&#8217;t read <em>&#8216;Edwin Drood&#8217;)</em>.  This habit  has stayed with me as an adult.  When I saw <em>&#8216;Tipping the Velvet&#8217;</em> on TV, I decided to read the book, from there I have now read all Sarah Waters books: some are better than others, but I just love they way in which they are written &#8211; I like the style.  Having said that, Patrick Hamilton&#8217;s books, of which I have enjoyed an extensive one after the other phase, tend to be erratic (the author showing through sometimes too much), enjoyable though</h3>
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<p><div id="attachment_5606" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 189px"><a href="http://echostains.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/great-expectations-one-of-my-favorites.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5606" src="http://echostains.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/great-expectations-one-of-my-favorites.jpg?w=179" alt="" width="179" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Great-expectations one of my favorites</p></div></h3>
<h3>An author I could not get enough of about 25 years ago was Stephen King.  His works translates fabulously to the screen,  My hubby doesn&#8217;t like him, says he has a tendency to waffle on.  I disagree.  When for example, you read something like <em>&#8216;The Shining&#8217;</em> it&#8217;s true that half the book is taken up with describing the hotel &#8211; but that&#8217;s the genius of King, he builds atmosphere so skillfully.  Then when the &#8216;hotel&#8217; or scene of the horror is set and is then  so vivid in your imagination  - he just steps right  in and frightens the hell out of you, lol!</h3>
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<p><div id="attachment_5607" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 209px"><a href="http://echostains.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/stephen-king-the-shining.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5607" src="http://echostains.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/stephen-king-the-shining.jpg?w=199" alt="" width="199" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Stephen King the shining</p></div></h3>
<h3>Lot&#8217;s of writers I could write about: lot of books and writers I am going to write about, lots of books I have read, lots of books I have read and forgotten about. Yet so many books to read &#8211; I look forward to that.</h3>
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<title><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes - Web Site]]></title>
<link>http://buntyme.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/sherlock-holmes/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alex Bailey</dc:creator>
<guid>http://buntyme.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/sherlock-holmes/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes has got their web site well and truly up and running looks fanatastic. http://sherlo]]></description>
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<p>Sherlock Holmes has got their web site well and truly up and running looks fanatastic. <a href="http://sherlock-holmes-movie.warnerbros.com/">http://sherlock-holmes-movie.warnerbros.com/</a>  And they have a face book page as well&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SherlockHolmes">http://www.facebook.com/SherlockHolmes</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[NYC]]></title>
<link>http://fermentatore.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/nyc/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>fermentatore</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fermentatore.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/nyc/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Parto domattina presto per NYC, cercherò di aggiornare il blog anche da laggiù ma non so se ci riusc]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Parto domattina presto per NYC, cercherò di aggiornare il blog anche da laggiù ma non so se ci riuscirò, spero avrete pazienza e spero di darvi alcune curiosità.</p>
<p>Intanto ecco il mio bagaglio:</p>
<p>&#8220;Il bagaglio di un povero o un saggio, poco o niente&#8221; (F. Guccini): Jeans Diesel 1 paio, 1 camicia Custò nero e oro, 1 camicia blu a righe Bagutta, 1 blu scura Thomas Pink con gemelli Dupont in onice, un lupetto Luca d&#8217;Alteri, un collo pari Bikkembergs e un collo a V Montezemolo, calzini, mutande e canottiere, 1 paio di snakers Bikkembergs, una cravatta Etrò e una Hermes. Per 12 giorni devono bastare (tanto si possono lavare!) Nello zaino Iphone, Nikon d40x con 18-200, navigatore satellitare NAvman con mappe America (andiamo a Atlantic City e Washington), 5 libri (2 di Conan Doyle, Poe, S. Van Dine, Cioran) 10 sigari toscani, un Dupont extend mini, occhiali da sole G. Ferrè, penna usb 64 gb, penna per scheda SD e Pastiglie Santa Maria Novella</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.iviaggidilitta.it/images/offerte/new%20york%201.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Short Story Sunday: 08/11/09]]></title>
<link>http://thefagcasanova.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/short-story-sunday-081109/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Gareth Aveyard</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thefagcasanova.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/short-story-sunday-081109/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Nose Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol The Ring of Thoth Arthur Conan Doyle The Lady With The Little Dog]]></description>
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<h3><a href="http://h42day.100megsfree5.com/texts/russia/gogol/nose.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">The Nose</span></a></h3>
<p>Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol</p>
<p><a href="http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2657/"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-620" title="ring of thoth" src="http://thefagcasanova.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ringofthoth.jpg?w=113" alt="ring of thoth" width="113" height="150" /></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2657/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">The Ring of Thoth</span></a></h3>
<p>Arthur Conan Doyle</p>
<p><a href="http://www.readprint.com/work-386/The-Lady-With-The-Dog-Anton-Chekhov"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-621" title="Anton Chekhov" src="http://thefagcasanova.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/chekhov.jpg?w=112" alt="Anton Chekhov" width="112" height="150" /></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.readprint.com/work-386/The-Lady-With-The-Dog-Anton-Chekhov" target="_blank"><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">The Lady With The Little Dog</span></a></h3>
<p>Anton Chekhov</p>
<p><a href="http://www.braungardt.com/Literature/Camus/Guest.htm"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-622" title="Camus" src="http://thefagcasanova.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/camus.jpg?w=100" alt="Camus" width="100" height="150" /></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.braungardt.com/Literature/Camus/Guest.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">The Guest</span></a></h3>
<p>Albert Camus</p>
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<title><![CDATA[“Sherlock Holmes”, de Guy Ritchie – Y... otro trailer]]></title>
<link>http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/%e2%80%9csherlock-holmes%e2%80%9d-de-guy-ritchie-%e2%80%93-y-otro-trailer/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Swanson</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[El 15 de enero se estrenará en España la última película de Guy Ritchie, “Sherlock Holmes, en la que]]></description>
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<p><strong>El 15 de enero se estrenará en España la última película de Guy Ritchie, “Sherlock Holmes,</strong> en la que nos cuenta las aventuras del singular detective. Mucho más singular en esta nueva recreación del personaje, por lo que hemos podido ir viendo a través de imágenes y trailers.</p>
<p>Para afincarnos más en esta idea que nos hemos hecho, llega un nuevo trailer (a este paso, si los vamos uniendo, tendremos la película completa), y volvemos a observar la ausencia de la famosa “flema” británica, tan peculiar en Holmes, y sí una socarronería que no deja de prestarle atractivo al personaje, aunque nos aleja de la imagen que siempre hemos tenido de el.</p>
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<p>Nuevas secuencias se añaden en este trailer a las vistas, y la historia cada vez se nos plantea más trepidante. Tanto, que puede que nos haga olvidar que estamos viendo una película sobre el personaje creado por Conan Doyle.</p>
<p>Echadle un vistazo y me contáis.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/ITU27Sxzi9w&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/ITU27Sxzi9w&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><strong>Mas información sobre la película, imágenes, posters y trailers, pinchando en los enlaces de abajo</strong></p>
<p><a title="“Sherlock Holmes” – Un nuevo póster" rel="bookmark" href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/sherlock-holmes-un-nuevo-poster/"><strong>“Sherlock Holmes” – Un nuevo póster</strong></a></p>
<p><a title="“Sherlock Holmes” – Nuevos posters promocionales" rel="bookmark" href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/%e2%80%9csherlock-holmes%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-nuevos-posters-promocionales/"><strong>“Sherlock Holmes” – Nuevos posters promocionales</strong></a></p>
<p><a title="“Sherlock Holmes” – Dos nuevos posters promocionales" rel="bookmark" href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9csherlock-holmes%e2%80%9d-dos-nuevos-posters-promocionales/"><strong>“Sherlock Holmes” – Dos nuevos posters promocionales</strong></a></p>
<p><a title="Trailer subtitulado en español de “Sherlock Holmes”" rel="bookmark" href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/trailer-subtitulado-en-espanol-de-%e2%80%9csherlock-holmes%e2%80%9d/"><strong>Trailer subtitulado en español de “Sherlock Holmes”</strong></a></p>
<p><a title="“Sherlock Holmes” – PRIMER TRAILER" rel="bookmark" href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/%e2%80%9csherlock-holmes%e2%80%9d-primer-trailer/"><strong>“Sherlock Holmes” – PRIMER TRAILER</strong></a></p>
<p><a title="‘Sherlock Holmes’ – Primer Poster" rel="bookmark" href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/sherlock-holmes-primer-poster/"><strong>‘Sherlock Holmes’ – Primer Poster</strong></a></p>
<p><a title="‘Sherlock Holmes’ – Nuevas fotos" rel="bookmark" href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/sherlock-holmes-nuevas-fotos/"><strong>‘Sherlock Holmes’ – Nuevas fotos</strong></a></p>
<p><a title="‘Sherlock Holmes’ de Guy Ritchie, ¿os lo imaginais?" rel="bookmark" href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/sherlock-holmes-de-guy-ritchie-%c2%bfos-lo-imaginais/"><strong>‘Sherlock Holmes’ de Guy Ritchie, ¿os lo imaginais?</strong></a></p>
<p><a title="Guy Ritchie resucitará a Sherlock Holmes para la Warner Bros." rel="bookmark" href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/guy-ritchie-resucitara-a-sherlock-holmes-para-la-warner-bros/"><strong>Guy Ritchie resucitará a Sherlock Holmes para la Warner Bros.</strong></a><a title="Guy Ritchie resucitará a Sherlock Holmes para la Warner Bros." rel="bookmark" href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/guy-ritchie-resucitara-a-sherlock-holmes-para-la-warner-bros/"></a></p>
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<p><strong>Visto en Youtube</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Swanson  <a href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/author/swansoncine/"><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/a5bdb3f1e4a401366e3ceea589ab4cf8?s=32&#38;d=&#38;r=G" alt="" width="32" height="32" /></a></strong></p>
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<link>http://venturangel.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/httpdartmoorlegends-yolasite-com/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ventura</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[the wish hounds of dartmoor    There are many legends associated with Dartmoor,a wild and lonely pla]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_129" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://dartmoorlegends.yolasite.com"><img class="size-medium wp-image-129" title="dartmoorlegends.yolasite.com" src="http://venturangel.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/wishhounds.jpg?w=300" alt="the wish hounds of dartmoor" width="300" height="187" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">the wish hounds of dartmoor</p></div>
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<p><span style="color:#ff00ff;"> </span><span style="color:#ff00ff;">There are many legends associated with Dartmoor,a wild and lonely place-idyllic and charming when the sun shines but the mood can change dramatically almost within minutes if the weather takes a turn for the worse and the place can take on a dangerous and forbidding feel; mists can descend and completly envelope one sometimes making the path you have taken impossible to find,panic ensues and the mind begins to imagine the stories you were told of people getting lost miles from civilisation and of flights of fancy concerning ghosts,pixies and demonic hounds..read on </span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ff00ff;"><a href="http://dartmoorlegends.yolasite.com"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-130" title="dartmoor legends" src="http://venturangel.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/dartmoor-legend.gif" alt="dartmoor legends" width="497" height="96" /></a></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[A Study in Scarlet]]></title>
<link>http://centreoftheworld.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/a-study-in-scarlet/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>joemh</dc:creator>
<guid>http://centreoftheworld.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/a-study-in-scarlet/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[She had to be sly now. She knew she would be clever enough to ask the right questions and gain the i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>She had to be sly now. She knew she would be clever enough to ask the right questions and gain the information she needed from her father, or even Barbara, without them knowing her intent.</p>
<div id="attachment_1214" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 294px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1214 " title="I'm infatuated by your moves, I've got to search hard for your clues..." src="http://centreoftheworld.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/scan0007.jpg?w=184" alt="Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, Baker Street, Westminster, NW1" width="284" height="400" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&#39;s A Study in Scarlet, Baker Street, Westminster, NW1</p></div>
<p>She approached her father, who was still recuperating on the sofa.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes mössa]]></title>
<link>http://amalter.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/sherlock-holmes-mossa/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Enligt SvD har vi en falsk bild av Sherlock Holmes klädsel, dvs hans huvudbonad. Nej, Sherlock Holme]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Enligt <strong><a href="http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/artikel_3452273.svd" target="_blank">SvD</a></strong> har vi en falsk bild av Sherlock Holmes klädsel, dvs hans huvudbonad.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nej, Sherlock Holmes var aldrig iklädd huvudbonaden <em>deerstalker.</em> Mössan som vi alla förknippar med honom har aldrig beskrivits av författaren Conan Doyle.</p></blockquote>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-464" title="Sherlock Holmes" src="http://amalter.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/sherlock-holmes3.jpg?w=184" alt="Sherlock Holmes" width="110" height="180" />Det var helt enkelt illustratören Sidney Pagets fel. Nu är vi så vana vid denna mössa, så vi skulle väl inte acceptera Sherlock i den &#8220;travelling cap&#8221; &#8211; hur nu en sådan ser ut &#8211; som Conan Doyle angett. Några olika moderna sådana kan ni se<strong><a href="http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=travelling+cap&#38;Country=&#38;CatId=0&#38;IndexArea=product_en&#38;ssk=y" target="_blank"> här</a></strong>. Det skall tydligen vara en modell med öronlappar.</p>
<p>Naturligtvis bär han &#8220;rätt&#8221; mössa på det engelska frimärket frimärket från 1993. Frimärket ingår i en serie, som firar 100-årjubileet av utgivningen av &#8220;The Final Problem&#8221;.</p>
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<p>Läs även andra bloggares åsikter om <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/huvudbonad">huvudbonad</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/deerstalker">deerstalker</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/Conan+Doyle">Conan Doyle</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/The+Final+Peoblem">The Final Peoblem</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Language of Bees]]></title>
<link>http://brideofthebookgod.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/the-language-of-bees/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Language of Bees is the latest instalment in the tales of Mary Russell, wife to Sherlock Holmes,]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1651" title="TheLanguageofBeesLaurie54241_f" src="http://brideofthebookgod.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/thelanguageofbeeslaurie54241_f.jpg?w=201" alt="TheLanguageofBeesLaurie54241_f" width="201" height="300" /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Language-Bees-Laurie-R-King/dp/0749007915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251650444&#38;sr=1-1">The Language of Bees </a>is the latest instalment in the tales of Mary Russell, wife to Sherlock Holmes, and starts off from the end of the last story (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Locked-Rooms-Mary-Russell-Novels/dp/0553583417/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251650477&#38;sr=1-1">Locked Rooms</a>) with Russell and Holmes arriving back to their home in Sussex to find one of the bee colonies deceased (if that&#8217;s what happens to hives) and a figure from Holmes&#8217; past (and I&#8217;m not going to say who it is) looking for help. This starts a murder mystery which involves Mycroft (one of my favourite characters from the canon) and his extensive resources assisting Russell and Holmes in travelling up and down the UK to visit some of the most ancient sites in the country, seeking a dangerous and influential man. I think. It&#8217;s quite hard to write about this without giving away too much of the plot, which is something I really don&#8217;t want to do as the intricacies of the story is what makes the series so successful, alongside as the lead characters of course.</p>
<p>I will put my cards on the table and say that years ago, when King first started writing this series I was sceptical; I loved Sherlock Holmes and couldn&#8217;t see him ever getting married, especially to a much younger woman. But I picked up <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beekeepers-Apprentice-Segregation-Suspense-Featuring/dp/0312427360/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251651123&#38;sr=1-1">The Beekeeper&#8217;s Apprentice </a>and gave it a go, and was instantly hooked. The books are written with such affection for Holmes, Watson et al, Russell herself is a distinctive character, and the events of each (while often harking back on occasions to the past) are all set after Holmes has retired, so don&#8217;t really tinker with the mythology at all.</p>
<p>The only disappointment in relation to The Language of Bees is the phrase &#8220;to be continued&#8221; which appears at the end, and the knowledge that I have to wait untill sometime in 2010 to find out how this particular story develops.</p>
<p>Well worth reading, snatched out of my hands by the Book God as soon as I had finished it, and if you haven&#8217;t read any of the Russell stories, then you really should. Excellent.</p>
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<link>http://brideofthebookgod.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/oscar-wilde-and-a-game-called-murder/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[So Susan over at You Can Never Have Too Many Books has started a very interesting discussion on the ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1597" title="OscarWildeandaGameCalled51000_f" src="http://brideofthebookgod.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/oscarwildeandagamecalled51000_f.jpg?w=196" alt="OscarWildeandaGameCalled51000_f" width="196" height="300" />So Susan over at <a href="http://susanflynn.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-ian-rankin-mystery.html">You Can Never Have Too Many Books </a>has started a very interesting discussion on the use of real-life people in fiction, whether it&#8217;s justified, how readers feel about it and so on. It&#8217;s a really thoughtful piece so do go and have a look, and I mention it here not just because I&#8217;m a fan of Susan&#8217;s blog (which I am) but because this is the second book in a row I have read which is very much set around people from the real world and I am trying to look at it in the light of Susan&#8217;s post and some of the comments that have appeared there already.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oscar-Wilde-Game-Called-Murder/dp/1416534849/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251047465&#38;sr=8-1">Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder </a>kind of gives itself away in the title. It&#8217;s the second in Gyles Brandreth&#8217;s series (I wrote about the first one <a href="http://brideofthebookgod.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/oscar-wilde-and-the-candlelight-murders/">here</a>) and does what it says on the tin; it turns Oscar Wilde into an amateur sleuth, and is packed with names that are recognisable to anyone who knows the detail of both Wilde&#8217;s life and the literary scene of the time. So, we have Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Lord Alfred Douglas, Robert Sherard (Wilde&#8217;s first biographer) and several other lesser known names.</p>
<p>The story is quite a simple one; it is 1892 and the Socrates Club is having one of it&#8217;s regular dinners, presided over by Wilde himself. At the end of the meal he suggests that the guests play a game called Murder &#8211; each of them will write anonymously on a slip of paper the name of the person they would most like to kill, and the other guests will try to work out who was chosen by whom and why. Not explained very elegantly but you can probably see where this is going. Two of the slips are blank, and the same name appears four times. And Wilde&#8217;s name is mentioned once, ditto his wife Constance. The game goes a little bit sour, but Wilde thinks nothing of it until over the course of the next three days the first three names on the list, including a parrot, die in more or less mysterious circumstances. Who around the table is a killer?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an ingenious puzzle and I had absolutely no idea who the murderer was, what the motive was and how it all fitted together but I really enjoyed finding out. Wilde comes across as a complex, attractive and sympathetic figure and I learned a lot about the period. It&#8217;s well written and clearly meticulously researched by someone with an affection for both the characters and the setting. Do I think that&#8217;s what Wilde was really like? Probably not. Does it matter? I&#8217;m not sure it does. Did it make me want to find out more about the real people? Well, yes, especially in the case of Conan Doyle&#8217;s friend Willie Hornung who created Raffles; I&#8217;ve never read any of his stories and am off to find some now. The author&#8217;s note is very illuminating, and that is the one thing I do look for in a novel with real people; some indication of what&#8217;s true, and what&#8217;s invented. And there are some very nice in-jokes, too. Recommended.</p>
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<link>http://instanteliterario.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/csi-nao-existe-crime-perfeito/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Um apanhado de depoimentos de especialistas norte-americanos de diversas áreas diferentes do meio cr]]></description>
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<link>http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/voltaire-e-o-romance-policial-fim/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[O estereótipo de personagem inteligente, nobre e bonito seria seguido depois por outros escritores p]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-485" title="193200125076" src="http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/1932001250764.jpg" alt="193200125076" width="244" height="367" /> O estereótipo de personagem inteligente, nobre e bonito seria seguido depois por outros escritores para desenvolver seus detetives – como o detetive C. Auguste Dupin, de Edgar Allan Poe, considerado o primeiro detetive moderno da literatura e Sherlock Holmes, do escritor escocês Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) – que usam claramente o mesmo raciocínio lógico para solucionar crimes, não sendo às vezes necessária a investigação de rua. Se fizermos um breve quadro de comparação entre os três personagens veremos que essas características sociais, intelectuais e físicas são também compartilhadas.</p>
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<h3><strong>C. Auguste Dupin</strong></h3>
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<h3><strong>Sherlock Holmes</strong></h3>
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<p align="center">Filósofo, que em   várias passagens mostra ter um conhecimento enorme.</p>
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<p align="center">Inteligente e preciso   nas deduções.</p>
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<p align="center">Erudito, racional,   muito observador, conhecedor de vários assuntos e exímio praticante da   dedução.</p>
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<p align="center">Rico, freqüentador da   parte nobre da sociedade e preferido de um rei em uma passagem.</p>
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<p align="center">Nobre com o título de <em>Chevalier, rico.</em></p>
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<p align="center">Um gentleman, rico e   nobre.</p>
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<p align="center">Jovem, bonito e de   corpo atlético.</p>
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<p align="center">Não se tem uma descrição   exata de sua aparência.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">No conto de Voltaire,  Zadig em vários episódios acaba sofrendo, assim como Cândido, duras punições e intervenções tanto da lei quanto dos governos, mostrando o quão a sociedade é perversa, ao contrário do que os otimistas pregavam. Ele é de alguma maneira hostilizado pela sociedade, que vê nos seus atributos uma ameaça. Esta característica de personagem marginalizado ou hostilizado está também presente nos romances policiais modernos com detetives menos aristocratas e mais populares que não são tão bem vistos pela sociedade – a exemplo o detetive-ladrão Arsène Lupin, uma espécie de “Robin Hood” do escritor francês Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941), que por vezes era confrontado com “Herlock Sholmes”, uma alusão clara ao personagem de Conan Doyle.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-488" title="sherlock-holmes-thomas-watson" src="http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/sherlock-holmes-thomas-watson.jpg" alt="sherlock-holmes-thomas-watson" width="244" height="244" /> A contribuição de Voltaire não se estende só à literatura policial. Como filósofo e pensador ele contribuiu para a cultura de modo geral e muito de sua literatura foi, em vários pontos, inovadora. Seus contos filosóficos, com uma linguagem de fácil acesso e com aventuras, personagens e idéias coerentes à sua teoria iluminista, formam uma grande obra. Outro tipo de literatura da qual Voltaire acabou se tornando um pioneiro, junto com <em>As Viagens de Gulliver</em> de Jonathan Swift (1726), foi da Ficção Científica com as viagens espaciais e culturas alienígenas de <em>Micrômegas </em>(1752), conto no qual um habitante da estrela Síria visita o planeta Saturno e trava conversas filosóficas. A partir de todos os aspectos analisados, pode-se concluir que o iluminista Voltaire foi de grande importância para o desenvolvimento da literatura de entretenimento moderna, que hoje é muito importante para a formação dos leitores, particularmente dos leitores infanto-juvenis.</p>
<h4>REFERÊNCIAS</h4>
<p>CAILLOIS, Roger. <em>Le Roman policier.</em> Buenos Aires: Editions des Lettres Françaises, 1941.</p>
<p>SODRÉ, Muniz M. A. <em>Best-Seller &#8211; A Literatura de Mercado</em>. São Paulo: Ática, 1985.</p>
<p>VOLTAIRE. <em>Zadig ou Destino</em>. Martins fontes: 2001.</p>
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<link>http://batatatransgenica.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/livros-que-voce-nao-consegue-largar/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>naomi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://batatatransgenica.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/livros-que-voce-nao-consegue-largar/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Esse é o conceito da campanha publicitária Unputdownable, que a agência Saatchi &amp; Saatchi criou ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Esse é o conceito da campanha publicitária Unputdownable, que a agência Saatchi &#38; Saatchi criou para a editora Penguin Books, veiculada na Malásia para demonstrar o caráter &#8220;inelargável&#8221; da literatura clássica.</p>
<div id="attachment_4770" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 360px"><a href="http://batatatransgenica.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/penguin_railway_children.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4770" title="penguin_railway_children" src="http://batatatransgenica.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/penguin_railway_children.jpg?w=350" alt="Os meninos e o trem de ferro, E. Nesbit" width="350" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Os meninos e o trem de ferro, E. Nesbit</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_4771" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 360px"><a href="http://batatatransgenica.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/penguin_cannery_row.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4771" title="penguin_cannery_row" src="http://batatatransgenica.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/penguin_cannery_row.jpg?w=350" alt="Cannery row, John Steinbeck" width="350" height="198" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Cannery row, John Steinbeck</p></div>
<div id="attachment_4772" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 360px"><a href="http://batatatransgenica.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/penguin_hound_of_the_baskervilles.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4772" title="penguin_hound_of_the_baskervilles" src="http://batatatransgenica.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/penguin_hound_of_the_baskervilles.jpg?w=350" alt="O cão dos Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle" width="350" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">O cão dos Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle</p></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Eu tenho só dois livros da Penguin: <a href="http://batatatransgenica.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/5-livros-que-terminei-recentemente/">Jane Eyre</a> da Charlotte Brontë, da linha Classics com capa preta, e Wuthering Heights da Emily Brontë, com capa amarela. Ambos são Top Favoritos Foréva.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dica do grupo <a href="http://www.viciadosemlivros.com.br/">Expresso Literário</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8212;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Enquanto isso, saiu o resultado da pesquisa sobre o mercado brasileiro de livros realizado pela Fipe/USP. Se tiver interesse no tema, veja alguns pontos no site <a href="http://www.amigosdolivro.com.br/lermais_materias.php?cd_materias=6785" target="_blank">Amigos do Livro</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>O preço médio constante do livro (todos os gêneros), por unidade vendida, variou de R$ 8,58 em 2004 para R$ 8 em 2008. </p></blockquote>
<p>Me conta onde, plis?</p>
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<link>http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/voltaire-e-a-literatura-policial-p-4/</link>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:left;">O raciocínio de ligação entre as marcas deixadas pelos animais e a imagem provável dos animais que Zadig cria é uma forma de raciocínio dedutivo onde se percebe o que Sodré (1985:29) define como “atividade cerebral privilegiada”, decorrente do raciocínio e das informações. A partir das marcas das ferraduras a distâncias iguais, Zadig descobriu que se tratava de um cavalo, animal que usa ferradura, o que já traz uma solução para a poeira que havia sido varrida dos troncos: o rabo do cavalo. Encaixando as marcas deixadas ele constrói uma conclusão do físico dos animais e descreve também os materiais de montaria. Em outro trecho do conto, no capítulo chamado <em>Os Enigmas</em>, Zadig responde a enigmas criados por um mago como parte do torneio para ser o rei da Babilônia, aparentemente o raciocínio usado segue também uma lógica e Zadig, ajudado por sua inteligência, responde a todos os enigmas com respostas eloqüentes, a exemplo:</p>
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<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-455 alignleft" title="misterio1" src="http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/misterio11.jpg?w=296" alt="misterio1" width="178" height="180" />“— Qual é, de todas as coisas do mundo, a mais longa e a mais curta, a mais rápida e a mais lenta, a mais divisível e a mais extensa, a mais negligenciada e a mais irreparavelmente lamentada, que devora tudo o que é pequeno e que vivifica tudo o que é grande?”</p>
<p>“&#8230;Zadig disse que era o tempo. ‘Nada é mais longo — acrescentou ele, — pois que é<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-456" title="1200832225631_bigPhoto_0" src="http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/1200832225631_bigphoto_0.jpg" alt="1200832225631_bigPhoto_0" width="200" height="250" /> amedida da eternidade; nada é mais curto, pois que falta a todos os nossos projetos; nada mais lento para quem espera; nada mais rápido para quem desfruta a vida; estende-se, em grandeza, até o infinito; divide-se, até o infinito, em pequenez; todos os homens o negligenciam, todos lhe lamentam a perda; nada se faz sem ele, faz esquecer tudo o que é indigno da posteridade, e imortaliza as grandes coisas’. A assembléia deu razão a Zadig.” (Cap. 19 – Os Enigmas)</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-449" title="pinkpanter" src="http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/pinkpanter.jpg?w=300" alt="pinkpanter" width="250" height="250" /> Mais uma vez Zadig usa as informações colhidas, desta vez de seu interlocutor, para juntar as “peças” e resolver o quebra-cabeças. Sua resposta, como muitas respostas a casos de detetives liga passo a passo as informações com a solução sugerida, evitando que a solução pareça injustificada ou incoerente. Este é um dos motivos pelo qual o leitor acaba se prendendo mais a história policial, a solução do caso, enigma ou “charada” está sempre nos elementos do texto, tendo o leitor uma oportunidade de ir ligando os fatos no correr da história e após isso confirmar suas suspeitas com a solução dada pelo detetive.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Esses trechos do conto Zadig claramente mostram o primeiro personagem da ficção a desenvolver estas características do romance policial, mais precisamente do detetive. Porém outras características do personagem de Voltaire podem ser vistas também nos detetives do romance policial.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">E isso será visto na 5º parte, em que citaremos Sherlock Holmes e outros.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Fotos interessantes</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Fonte: <a href="http://tecnologia.terra.com.br/galerias/0,,OI105938-EI4795-FI1290246,00.html">http://tecnologia.terra.com.br/galerias/0,,OI105938-EI4795-FI1290246,00.html</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Golfinho + Banana</p>
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<link>http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/voltaire-e-a-literatura-policial-p-3/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Perante a corte, Zadig dá uma demonstração do raciocínio dedutivo e lógico que tinha desenvolvido pa]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Perante a corte, Zadig dá uma demonstração do raciocínio dedutivo e lógico que tinha desenvolvido para descobrir como eram os animais:</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-405" title="Beagle" src="http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/beagle.jpg?w=300" alt="Beagle" width="240" height="180" /> “&#8230;Já que me é dado falar perante essa augusta assembléia, juro-vos por Orosmade que jamais vi a respeitável cadela da rainha, nem o sagrado cavalo do rei dos reis. Eis o que me aconteceu. Passeava eu pelas cercanias do bosque onde vim a encontrar o venerável eunuco e o ilustríssimo monteiro-mor, quando vi na areia as pegadas de um animal. Descobri facilmente que eram as de um pequeno cão.  Sulcos leves e longos, impressos nos montículos de areia, por entre os traços das patas, revelaram-me que se tratava de uma cadela cujas tetas estavam pendentes, e que portanto não fazia muito que dera cria. Outras marcas em sentido diferente, que sempre se mostravam no solo ao lado das patas dianteiras, denotavam que o animal tinha orelhas muito compridas; e, como notei que o chão era sempre menos amolgado por uma das patas do que pelas três outras, compreendi que a cadela de nossa augusta rainha manquejava um pouco, se assim me ouso exprimir. Quanto ao cavalo do rei dos reis, seja-vos cientificado que, passeando eu pelos caminhos do referido bosque, divisei marcas de ferraduras que se achavam todas a igual distância.</p>
<p>“Eis aqui — considerei — um cavalo que tem um galope perfeito”. A poeira dos <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-404" title="cavalo_negro-7393" src="http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/cavalo_negro-7393.jpg?w=300" alt="cavalo_negro-7393" width="240" height="180" />troncos, num estreito caminho de sete pés de largura, fora levemente removida à esquerda e à direita, a três pés e meio do centro da estrada. “Esse cavalo — disse eu comigo — tem uma cauda de três pés e meio, a qual, movendo-se para um lado e outro, varreu assim a poeira dos troncos”. Vi debaixo das árvores, que formavam um dossel de cinco pés de altura, algumas folhas recém-tombadas e concluí que o cavalo lhes tocara com a cabeça e que tinha, portanto, cinco pés de altura. Quanto ao freio, deve ser de ouro de vinte e três quilates: pois ele lhe esfregou a parte externa contra certa pedra que eu identifiquei como uma pedra de toque. E, enfim, pelas marcas que as ferraduras deixaram em pedras de outra espécie, descobri eu que era prata de onze denários’.” (Cap. 3 – O Cão e o Cavalo)</p>
<p>Essa foi a brilhante descrição de Zadig&#8230; em breve veremos como isso deu surgimento ao estereótipo do detetive policial&#8230;</p>
<p>VAHN</p>
<p>Aqui fica uma imagem interessante =D</p>
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<link>http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/voltaire-e-a-literatura-policial-parte-2/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Voltaire e a Literatura Policial 2 Edipo-Rei e a Esfinge                   O personagem Édipo-Rei de]]></description>
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<p>                  O personagem <em>Édipo-Rei</em> de Sófocles é por muitos autores considerado como um ancestral dos detetives, pelo trabalho de investigação que ele faz sobre sua própria origem. Porém Roger Caillois (1941) afirma, em relação a tragédia de Sófocles, que “não há nada de intelectual em Édipo” e de fato a tragédia por sua natureza busca a catarse pela comoção e não pela demonstração ou surpresa, como no caso do romance policial. Distanciando os laços genealógicos entre o detetive policial e Édipo,<em> </em>outro personagem surge como um potencial precursor do pensamento lógico-analítico:  Zadig, do autor francês Voltaire (1694-1778). </p>
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<p>                   Deve-se levar em consideração que o personagem em questão não foi criado com o intuito de ser um detetive, mas como uma crítica de Voltaire à sociedade de sua época, em que havia uma tensão entre as instituições conservadoras, Igreja Católica e Governo Burguês, e os pensadores. Voltaire foi um filósofo e teórico iluminista do século XVIII, que tinha grande fé na lei como organizadora dos estados e sonhava com uma reforma da sociedade causada pela filosofia, ciência e pela razão. Participou da elaboração da <em>Enciclopédia </em>(1772), na qual reuniu vários conhecimentos científicos em 35 volumes, juntamente com outros pensadores iluministas como Denis <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-382" title="encyclopedie" src="http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/encyclopedie2.jpg?w=200" alt="encyclopedie" width="250" height="350" />Diderot, Montesquieu e Rousseau. Pregava as liberdades civis, a liberdade de expressão e o direito de um julgamento justo, ironizava a riqueza e a burguesia, idéias essas que aparecem em seus escritos e estão presentes em <em>Zadig ou Destino</em> (1747) e notavelmente em sua novela <em>Cândido ou Otimismo</em>, a última sendo uma dura crítica ao pensamento otimista de Pope, Godwin e Leibniz.</p>
<p>                      Zadig, personagem principal da narrativa, é um filósofo babilônico otimista, com muitas riquezas, beleza e, às vezes, muito solitário, que passa por situações que retratam o pensamento irônico de Voltaire em relação à sociedade. No conto, Zadig, depois de se frustrar com sua relação rápida com Sémire, se refugia no rio Eufrates e passa a estudar a natureza, os animais e as plantas, adquirindo uma grande agudeza na percepção do ambiente. Um dia, então, ele é defrontado com uma situação em que seus conhecimentos podem ser usados. Zadig usa o raciocínio dedutivo, lógico e pistas deixadas no ambiente para descrever o cavalo do rei e o cão da rainha, que haviam fugido, e os quais ele não tinha avistado. Ao ouvir uma detalhada caracterização dos animais, os empregados do rei e da rainha decidem prender Zadig, não acreditando que o rapaz pudesse descrever os animais sem tê-los visto. </p>
<p><strong>Aqui acaba a segunda parte, vocês acompanharão na próxima a defesa de Zadig perante a corte da Rainha, e sua resposta que o colocam como o primeiro detetive da literatura&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Esperem e verão como é impressionante =D</strong></p>
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<link>http://moscasmortas.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/voltaire-e-a-literatura-policial-parte-1/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>leonardomeimes</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>                Pessoal, vou começar a postar uma série de partes do que foi um artigo apresentado por mim em um Fórum de Letras há alguns anos.  O artigo relaciona a literatura polícial com a influência dos contos filosóficos de Voltaire, particularmente o conto Zadig ou destino. Assim creio que tanto os que se interessam pela Literatura quanto os que gostam de Filosofia se sentirão avontade. </p>
<p>A primeira parte já está aqui:</p>
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<p><strong>VOLTAIRE E A LITERATURA POLICIAL</strong></p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><img class=" " title="Sherlock Holmes" src="http://static.hsw.com.br/gif/private-investigator-6.jpg" alt="Sherlock Homes" width="400" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sherlock Holmes</p></div>
<p>                     Em se tratando de Romance Policial o personagem mais importante da narração é sem dúvida o detetive, que é colocado frente a uma situação crime e tem que resolvê-la. No entanto, conforme o modelo predominante nesta literatura, a ação deste personagem é dedutiva e investigativa, caracterizando-se como uma ação policial extremamente intelectual. A dedução usada é uma descendente direta dos silogismos da lógica clássica de Aristóteles, é uma conclusão baseada em informações anteriores que tem uma relação entre si, portanto parte de uma informação universal para uma conclusão particular:</p>
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<p align="center">“Todo homem é mortal.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Sócrates é homem.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"> Logo,  Sócrates é mortal.”</p>
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<p>                      Pela relação entre os sujeitos das premissas se faz a conclusão lógica de que Sócrates é mortal. O mesmo raciocínio de ligação entre os fatos é produzido pelos detetives dos romances policiais que, como cita Muniz Sodré (1985:29), fazem “a atividade de preenchimento do vazio entre um acontecimento (o crime) e sua causa”. Um exemplo deste trabalho de solução de enigmas pode ser visto nos contos policiais de Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), importante autor estadunidense que foi um dos principais autores da literatura policial e criou regras definitivas para esta literatura.</p>
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<p>                       No conto <em>A Carta Roubada,</em> o detetive C. Auguste Dupin, criado por Allan Poe, parte da análise dos elementos que o chefe de polícia lhe conta para deduzir que a carta estava em um lugar à vista de todos, pois assim não levantaria suspeitas e acaba por recuperar o documento. A análise também é um elemento importante da ficção policial, pois as informações muitas vezes não são apresentadas claramente, sendo necessária uma observação cuidadosa de pistas e locais onde os crimes ocorreram. A partir dessas pistas o detetive constrói um raciocínio lógico dedutivo, ligando as pistas entre si e gerando possíveis soluções. Em outras histórias do mesmo autor, o personagem Dupin resolve outras situações crime sempre seguindo pistas e raciocínios, porém antes que Edgar Allan Poe criasse suas histórias policiais, já existiam personagens na literatura que tinham características que depois se tornaram parte do estereótipo de detetive.</p>
<p>Fim da Parte 1 &#8211; Em dois dias posto mais uma =D</p>
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<p>VIVA LA REVOLUCION DE LOS MOSCAS MORTENSES!</p>
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<p>VAHN</p>
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<link>http://kittyprado.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/sherlock-holmes-novo-trailer-e-novos-medos/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>To Sherlock fans Jeremy Brett represented the quintessential representation of a character that has dominated the literature of detective stories. His perfect adoption of the role, from mannerisms to the intensity of Sherlock&#8217;s character, leaves an unforgettable impression on those who watch him act.<!--more--></p>
<p>I was a Sherlockian way back from my Junior school. Having read all of Sir Conan Doyle&#8217;s stories over and over again, Sherlock Holmes is one such character that has seeped into my consciousness to a great extent. <span class="fullpost"></p>
<p>To see Jeremy Brett portray this mammoth of a character was amazing.Its surprising that the image of Holmes I had built in my mind, came all alive when i watched the first episode &#8220;A Scandal in Bohemia&#8221;, of the renowned series run by Granada Television. Then on I have always craved for more of Jeremy Brett playing holmes. What further fascinated me, was how the character of Sherlock Holmes affected the later life of this method actor. How he became obsessed and aloof like Holmes. And finally his sad demise due to manic depression. How a fictional character could affect a living person to such an extent is beyond my imagination. </p>
<p>I pay my tribute to this great actor. His role as Sherlock Holmes will forever remain imbibed in my memory of the legendary sleuth.</p>
<p>The best ever portrayal of Sherlock Holmes by british actor Jeremy Brett. To know more about Sherlock Holmes click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes">here. </a></p>
<p>To learn more about Jeremy Brett go <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Brett">here</a>.</p>
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<link>http://riverofart.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/pre-hardboiled-detective-sherlock-holmes-a-thinking-mans-detective/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align:left;">&#8220;When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">If one sentence ever summed up a  detective the above quotation does that for Sherlock Holmes.   Conan Doyle created a figure that emblazed himself on the mind of the reader.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Erudite urban singular and tough as nails &#8211; he trusts only his intellect .  These qualities make Sherlock Holmes a full member of the hardboiled dick club.</p>
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<p><span style="color:#ffcc00;"> Selected quotes from Sherlock Holmes</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffcc00;">The adventure of the three Garridbes,</span></p>
<li><span style="color:#ffcc00;">Well, Watson, we can but possess our souls in patience and see what the hour may bring. </span>
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<li><span style="color:#ffcc00;">Page 1053 </span></li>
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<p><span style="color:#ffcc00;">The Adventure Of The Devils Foot,</span></p>
<li><span style="color:#ffcc00;">Sterndale &#8220;How do you know that?&#8221;<br />
Holmes &#8220;I followed you.&#8221;<br />
Sterndale &#8220;I saw no one.&#8221;<br />
Holmes &#8220;That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.&#8221; </span></p>
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<p><em><span style="color:#ff6600;">Note:</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#ff6600;">Holmes describes himself as &#8220;</span></em><a title="Bohemianism" href="http://riverofart.wordpress.com/wiki/Bohemianism"><em><span style="color:#ff6600;">Bohemian</span></em></a><em><span style="color:#ff6600;">&#8221; in habits and lifestyle. According to Dr Watson, Holmes is an eccentric, with no regard for contemporary standards of tidiness or good order. In an early story, Watson describes Holmes as:</span></em></p>
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<td style="padding:4px 10px;" valign="top"><em><span style="color:#ff6600;">The worst tenant in London&#8230;[he] keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece&#8230; He had a horror of destroying documents…Thus month after month his papers accumulated, until 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.<sup><a href="http://riverofart.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#cite_note-11">[12]</a></sup></span></em></td>
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<p><em><span style="color:#ff6600;">What appears to others as chaos, however, is to Holmes a wealth of useful information. Throughout stories, Holmes is depicted as diving into his apparent mess of random papers and artifacts only to retrieve precisely the specific document or eclectic item he was looking for.   FROM WIKIPEDIA</span></em></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ffff00;">Bye,  &#8220;She closed the door to the wine cellar and walked softly away- a loud crash sounded and she lurched up the steps.&#8221;</span></p>
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<link>http://upsenglish.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/a-guide-to-the-london-of-sherlock-holmes/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>(image of Wheeler&#8217;s book, courtesy amazon.com)</p>
<p>As the newspaper, the <em>Memphis Commercial Appeal</em>, noted in an article on page B-1 (July 4), Memphis resident Thomas Wheeler has published a new edition of his <em>Finding Sherlock&#8217;s London,</em> which is a guide to over 300 sites mentioned  in Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s stories and novels featuring Holmes.  (The article is by Jody Callahan.)</p>
<p>Like a lot of cities worldwide, Memphis has its own Sherlock Holmes club, which happens to be called &#8220;the Giant Rats of Sumatra&#8221; (taken from a tale [so to speak], of course), and Wheeler is a longtime member.  However, Wheeler is quoted as saying that he composed the book &#8220;not so much as a fan of Sherlock Holmes but as someone who could help fans of Sherlock Holmes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Callahan&#8217;s article also notes that the most recent film adaptation of the Holmes narratives is the soon-to-be released <em>Sherlock Holmes</em>, directed by Guy Ritchie.</p>
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