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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Zounds like another suggestion for the reading group.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> nesfa-open [mailto:nesfa-open-bounces@lists.nesfa.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>ANTHONY R LEWIS<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 18, 2018 2:31 PM<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> NESFA Open Mailing List<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [nesfa-open] Book review--Holmes Entangled<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I recently read <em><i><font face="Times New Roman">Holmes Entangled</font></i></em> by Gordon McAlpine. I can't go into too many details without spoiling the story but it is not a classical Holmesian mystery--it is a story about Sherlock Holmes as if written by Jorge Luis Borges. In fact, Borges is the instigator of the story presentation and is in the starting/finishing frame of the story. It is 1943 and Borges has found a manuscript in an Argentine library written by Holmes in 1928. As a result of this an attempt is made up<span class=textexposedshow>on his life and he engages a private investigator to find out why. The mss. does not take place in the canonical Holmesian universe but in one where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote no detective stories. However, his life is threatened because of his belief in the existence of parallel universes--the perceived danger of the existence of these parallel universes is the weakest part of the story. The frame ends in a suitably Borgesian manner. Traditional Holmes fans may not find this to their liking, but I did.</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div><p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>If you'd like to read the philosophical underpinning of parallel universes, I refer you to On the Plurality of Worlds, Oxford: Blackwell 1986, by David Kellogg Lewis, one of the major philosophers of the second half of the 20th century [<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDavid_Lewis_%28philosopher%29&h=ATNQzyw43MvpwQCCSMLNvIwDH6hTplmysTTEzfOT2HIbHOPbbToye_uD7LBJ8eRBd5bdRAgmAM0Jsxu8mp5ntAcgLTMMAEhpg3q9QaCP7ePlkBXh1kaumSbemT3XX3GFy73mHTsVf6exINtbanIabRiiqhAGUVg">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lewis_(philosopher)</a>] and science fiction fan [see <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnesfa.org%2Fboskone-history%2Fb02%2Fphotos.html&h=ATNxXC-6bewL7Ln18cBXTyZd_3k_T5sXe3riIKwQ5ZFAx-jQKezNOrSbkbxQOcJBQzLYADb-rEsqBpKoOKUN-DcCchwVtHwRowpUjZ0CEkEPVPLD9bzHccmEnIdjOCSsvcLtrp9WyVTE4s-dtw">nesfa.org/boskone-history/b02/photos.html</a> for some photos] Disclaimer: although not a relative, I was a friend of David and of his wife Steffi.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div></div></body></html>