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Saturday, May 28, 2005
Sorry
I owe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle an apology.
When I first read (actually via an audiobook) his, A Study in Scarlet, I was delighted to find a description of the initial meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Then the book diverted into a description of a massacre perpetuated by members of the Morman Church.
I was horrified.
Even though I'm not one myself, I was positive Mormans just don't do things like that.
Well, apparently they did -- according to an episode of Investigating History "Mountain Massacre" (in 1857 Utah) on the History Channel tonight and the book Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Sir Doyle just wrote a fictionalized account of that true event as motivation for the crime Holmes was investigating.
When I first read (actually via an audiobook) his, A Study in Scarlet, I was delighted to find a description of the initial meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Then the book diverted into a description of a massacre perpetuated by members of the Morman Church.
I was horrified.
Even though I'm not one myself, I was positive Mormans just don't do things like that.
Well, apparently they did -- according to an episode of Investigating History "Mountain Massacre" (in 1857 Utah) on the History Channel tonight and the book Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Sir Doyle just wrote a fictionalized account of that true event as motivation for the crime Holmes was investigating.
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