Re: [small video] Amazing drop


"Charlie B" <charliew.byers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Brian Gadomski wrote:

> Does anyone recognise the juggler in this vid? I thought it might be
> Charlie Hull... I know he does lots of stuff with flats.

Holmes turned the paper over in his hand twice and then cast it upon the
occasional table between where I sat, straight-backed and eager upon the
rosetti chair, and the battered savoy chair where my great friend luxuriated
with a disaffected air.

"What can you tell us about the writer of this document, watson?" he
demanded.
"Well, " said I, picking up and unfolding the letter, " excellent quality
paper: he is not a poor man. I do not recognise the watermark -"
"It is that of a paper merchant from our western colonies," Homes
interjected. I turned my attention to the writing upon the paper. Holding
it up to the light from the window, I pronounced the ink to be of a high
quality, probably from the Indian subcontinent. Holmes nodded courteously
and waved me to continue. The hand was compact, somewhat irregular,
angular, and with a great variation in the height of the figures upon the
page. "This person is somewhat uneducated" I declared.
"My dear Watson, quite the contrary. This is the hand of a man whose time
is spent in detailed study, whose mind is accustomed to making great leaps
after long periods of devoted work. Observe the chaotic manner in which the
writer approaches the edge of the page. Here he hyphenates, here he merely
compresses his writing in an effort to complete the word before reaching the
margin. But you have in your hand enough information to identify positively
the writer."
"The actual writer? Well, " I stammered. "Paper from the Americas, Ink out
of India, our man is a hard-working intellectual of moderate means, but"
"My dear fellow!" ejaculated the detective in an explosion of mirth. "Read
the text at the bottom of the page!"
"B. B. Gadomski," I read. "But what does this mean...?"

- Excerpt from "The Case of the Scrutable Letter" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
channeling through Steve Carter, 2005



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