David Hagar
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Creative. Sherlock Holmes told slant, from an unusual point of view. Michigan-based, software developer and tinkerer, and wannabe tabletop gamer. More soon.
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Moriarty's Defence of Sherlock Holmes
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A deliberately alternative-canon Sherlock Holmes novel. After Dr. John Watson's death, his final manuscript shocks the world with an unthinkable accusation...
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Civilisation is the elaborate process by which mankind invents institutions to protect itself from human nature, then places human beings in charge of them.
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Moriarty's Defense of Sherlock Holmes by David Hagar
Being a Correction of Certain Grave Errors Contained in the Posthumous Manuscript of Dr. John H. Watson.
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THE PROFESSOR CORRECTS: Genius is a word employed by ordinary men whenever they become too indolent to understand discipline.
THE PROFESSOR OBSERVES: Never underestimate a fool. He has no idea what he will do next.
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Moriarty's Defense of Sherlock Holmes by David Hagar
Being a Correction of Certain Grave Errors Contained in the Posthumous Manuscript of Dr. John H. Watson.
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THE PROFESSOR CORRECTS: Most men seek evidence for their conclusions. Holmes sought conclusions worthy of the evidence. The distinction explains his loneliness.
"I was not the only man in England to govern lives invisibly. I was merely less sentimental about it." Moriarty's Defence of Sherlock Holmes, p. 10 @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mx-...
Moriarty's Defense of Sherlock Holmes by David Hagar
Being a Correction of Certain Grave Errors Contained in the Posthumous Manuscript of Dr. John H. Watson.
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MORIARTY'S MARGINALIA: The newspapers believe themselves historians because they possess ink. A crow standing upon a cathedral does not thereby become an archbishop.
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Moriarty's Defense of Sherlock Holmes by David Hagar
Being a Correction of Certain Grave Errors Contained in the Posthumous Manuscript of Dr. John H. Watson.
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THE PROFESSOR'S AXIOM: Kindness is admirable. Competence is indispensable. The world habitually mistakes the former for the latter until calamity requires arithmetic.
Every man keeps a ledger. Mine happens to contain murders, mathematics, and corrections to Dr. Watson. I now invite the public to examine the accounts. @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mx-...
Moriarty's Defense of Sherlock Holmes by David Hagar
Being a Correction of Certain Grave Errors Contained in the Posthumous Manuscript of Dr. John H. Watson.
kickstarter.com
Imagine the indignity. I spent years constructing the most sophisticated criminal enterprise in Europe. Today I am expected to ask strangers on the Internet to click a button. @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mx-...
Moriarty's Defense of Sherlock Holmes by David Hagar
Being a Correction of Certain Grave Errors Contained in the Posthumous Manuscript of Dr. John H. Watson.
kickstarter.com
THE PROFESSOR CORRECTS: Mr. Holmes never impressed me by being clever. London is full of clever men. He impressed me by refusing to lie to himself.
FROM THE PROFESSOR'S DESK: I am informed that modern society requires one to possess an "online presence." Formerly, reputation was acquired by accomplishment. Progress is a curious word.
THE PROFESSOR CORRECTS: There are those who imagine Holmes and I hated one another. How provincial. Hatred is common. Worthy opposition is exceedingly rare.
MORIARTY'S MARGINALIA: Civilisation survives not because the virtuous outnumber the wicked, but because the incompetent outnumber them both.
MORIARTY’S MARGINALIA: The common reader asks whether Sherlock Holmes was good. A childish question. Ask whether he was exact. Ask whether he saw clearly when lesser men made fog of their own sentiment. Goodness is abundant in sermons. Exactitude is rare.
Most first novels die in the middle. Not because the writing is bad, but because nothing turns. Before I drafted a word of Moriarty's Defence of Sherlock Holmes, I wrote a chapter list where every chapter had one required job: the state of the story at the end must not equal the state at the start.
