And then everything went 1978

- and stopped. That’s what you get for sitting in a crash bar too long, he thought, everything smears.

Listening to the bloody Rolling Stones again – aint it weird, yes it is. Trying to spoon more of the congealed sweetener into a swamp of black coffee, like hiding evidence, like burying a corpse.

And the music – some randomly titled confusion of sessions – it was still now, with every plastic tinsel glittering sound from way back, the thin wire layers of muzak and demon irony.
So very now.
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some quick thoughts on Holmes and his resurrection

Re-reading the Lovecraft biography, Against the World, Against Life – by Michel Houellebecq and I was struck again by the Holmes reference. Houellebecq talks of the pressure put on Doyle to resurrect the Great Detective* after Holmes had become established as a popular myth, he talks primarily in regards to the UK which is a little unfortunate – for Holmes's mythic appeal caught on in the USA and Russia with equal force.
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