A Slight Trick of the Mind, , by Mitch Cullin
Wednesday, October 7, 12:00 noon
Dulaney Room
Cullin imagines a ninety-three-year-old Sherlock Holmes retired to his bee-keeping in 1947 England. Enfeebled but still intellectually curious, Holmes copes with the indignities of old age and, despite memory problems, reminisces about a beautiful, married woman from a case he was on years ago. In extreme old age Holmes becomes a witness to the birth of our own era -- a time, as Cullin puts it, “of lonely, searching souls.”
Wednesday, October 7, 12:00 noon
Dulaney Room
Cullin imagines a ninety-three-year-old Sherlock Holmes retired to his bee-keeping in 1947 England. Enfeebled but still intellectually curious, Holmes copes with the indignities of old age and, despite memory problems, reminisces about a beautiful, married woman from a case he was on years ago. In extreme old age Holmes becomes a witness to the birth of our own era -- a time, as Cullin puts it, “of lonely, searching souls.”
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