"Andrew Williams" awilliams@daikin.com.au wrote:
Andrew Williams wrote:
<The continuity in B7 is masterful compared with the Holmes canon.>
Sally replied: and the Holmes canon was only from one writer ... hmmm, maybe we *wouldn't* have been better off glitch-wise had there been less authorial fingers in the pot :-)
Ah, but the Holmes stories were written over a period of 40 years, I think, and it wasn't something Conan Doyle was particularly enthused about. It's still amusing though, that a set of stories about a character who puts stock in the fine details has so many blatant errors
- Mrs. Watson addressing her husband by the wrong name, three Moriarty
brothers all named James, Inspector Lestrade and his boat cannon....
The Moriatries were all given/used the same names specifically to confuse the authorities (this 'has happened' to my knowledge)
BTW in the Middle Ages one reason why children in a family might be given the same name was because they had a godparent of that name. So if you had John Gummer, John Smith etc as respective godfathers you would have several Johns in the family.
Jacqui
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