Sherlock Holmes
January 3rd, 2010 | 
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On New Year’s Eve, a business friend sent me this image of the USS J.F.K aircraft carrier docking on the island of Malta (while I was writing him an email about, among other things, Malta).
Just now, as I was sitting down to blog this post I thought to myself, “Wait a second here, doesn’t the 2012 movie trailer show the USS J.F.K. riding a catastrophic tsunami wave into the White House!?”
These metaphorical coincidences are part of the reason I wrote this paragraph on page 208 of Clairvaux Manifesto,
Like an old sage hunting through his scrolls, I have a lot of ongoing research mulling around my library which may or may not become important in time. Studying these threads is like learning the stars of various constellations. One looks into the night sky to see a million bright little dots; another looks up into the beauty of a grander narrative. In all of this, I am simply praying for peace while practicing, what I’ve come to call, recon prayer. One of the most misunderstood and misdirected Old Testament metaphors is that of the spy.
Yes, I’ve already sat through Sherlock Holmes twice!
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I’m going to see Sherlock Holmes later this afternoon!
Blessings on you and your family this 2010!
Thanks Lois, many blessings on you as well this year.
Sherlock Holmes fascinates me. The whole British empiricist thing… tasting, smelling, hearing, feeling, seeing… and of course thinking it through perfectly like the perfect continental rationalist, fighting rationally as well, having traveled the world. I can just hear Neil Postman cheering in the audience (author of Building a Bridge to the 18th Century)… only critique, maybe we're not building the bridge back far enough.
This movie opens with a masonic ritual.. the theme permeates the whole story. And Sherlock experimenting with drugs and the occult etc… exploring their dark world, minimizing it all into a parody … The Puritan with the small Bible poking people into a frenzy… the stereotype of uneducated religious idiots.
Those early comments of Holmes after his night in the pentagram are quite telling, about him supposedly resolving thousands of years of theological inquiry… those little moments say everything.
The rabbit hole might be just a bit deeper than a few technologically advanced parlor tricks; thus the presence of the raven keeping everyone humble.