Xinfu
May 26, 2014, 01:26 AM
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2346/2346-h/2346-h.htm "Suppose that I were Brooks or Woodhouse, or any of the fifty men who have good reason for taking my life, how long could I survive against my own pursuit? A summons, a bogus appointment, and all would be over.
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Again and again his word has decided the national policy. He lives in it. He thinks of nothing else save when, as an intellectual exercise, he unbends if I call upon him and ask him to advise me on one of my little problems. But Jupiter is descending to-day. What on earth can it mean? Who is Cadogan West, and what is he to Mycroft?"
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1. Holmes is assuming he were pursuing himself; does the SUMMONS line mean if so, he would need only summon himself to catch himself because he would turn himself in to authority(or authorities?)?
2. Does the JUPITER part mean the person, his brother, is doing things inferior, which does not comply with his usual way of being lofty and unreachable?
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Again and again his word has decided the national policy. He lives in it. He thinks of nothing else save when, as an intellectual exercise, he unbends if I call upon him and ask him to advise me on one of my little problems. But Jupiter is descending to-day. What on earth can it mean? Who is Cadogan West, and what is he to Mycroft?"
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1. Holmes is assuming he were pursuing himself; does the SUMMONS line mean if so, he would need only summon himself to catch himself because he would turn himself in to authority(or authorities?)?
2. Does the JUPITER part mean the person, his brother, is doing things inferior, which does not comply with his usual way of being lofty and unreachable?