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Is Sherlock omnipotent?

Spoiler alert for anyone who has not yet watched "A Scandal in Belgravia", please do not read on, for there might be some spoilers here.



I must admit that this episode fully fulfilled the high expectations, yet I had my troubles with the last ten minutes, which felt so much like a fairy tale ending; for Sherlock is apparently omnipotent, always being at the right spot if his dearest are in need, and if so he is also benevolently forgiving them all their wrongs/sins, even if they had been abusing his most precious, his intellect. Speaking of which, he might be everywhere indeed, but come once as close as to arousing any emotions in him at all, and he starts to lose hold of his intellectual powers, at least as far as that he gets less cautious.


PS: My husband couldn't help but comment on the numberplate of the car that took Sherlock to the airport, for it almost bore my surname - the pronunciation would be the same but the spelling wrong -, which happens to be not my husband's by the way ;D.

Mercurial

This morning I was treated to watch this video and it is quite remarkable, as it left me with the insight that we must be living in a truly mercurial age. Especially the final passage dealing with the personal and physical impact of this sort of life style is more than telling and even as far as artists must feel very grateful for this collector, still I wonder where this will drive - lead would be far too slow considering the acceleration I'm sensing - us.

Der Beuys'che und der Chesterton'sche Kunstbegriff AKA Art according to Beuys and Chesterton

In a way the art term of Joseph Beuys and Gilbert Keith Chesterton correspond, and I do regard them both very highly. According to Beuys extented definition of art (erweiterter Kunstbegriff) anything could be art - and as far as I interpret it, if something is art or not, really depends on the attitude of the maker to his /her product -; according to Chesterton art is made by the urge to create something and to seperate oneself from it - i.e in my interpretation: to produce it, or even simpler to do it... In some odd way this doesn't by the way imply that everything is art ;), but maybe only that even the artist is but an ordinary person, that distinguishes himself/herself only because he/she has found his/her vocation and dared to live up to it.

"If I Weren't a Wood...

...I would wrap you in with drifting wood; I'd take you down like a river would"

Daan's version is quite congenial, but I believe I still prefer Dead Man Ray's a little bit more ;)!

Imagination - Vorstellungskraft II

To be able to see it all at once, the image and the paint, the line and the space - Imagination. And when it comes to having and exercising the power of imagination. Who would be more trained a common boy or some upper-class i***t, who does not have to use it, for everything he beholds and desires he will get?!     Have it your way ;)

AKA

If you ever come across a copy of Journey into Chaos by Karl/ Charles Wollf read it and think "What a Life". And I'm still feeling grateful for the kindest feedback  I ever got ;)