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From: edtking@uw-june (Ewan Tempero)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: (more) Sherlock Holmes
Message-ID: <84@uw-june>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 15:16:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 15:16:12 1985
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>????? by ?????
>     - I would appreciate it if anyone can fill in the question marks
>       on this one.  Here we find that Holmes' and Moriarty's superior
>       powers stem from the fact that they are (twin? - cloned?) actors 
>       from the far future who traveled back in time for some reason.
>       As I recall, the author was treating the book seriously.

Along the same lines....
I remember reading a short Science Fiction story by ?Asimov? that was
written as a letter to Holmes by Moriarty. He claimed to be someone 
from the future that had learnt a shakespearian play, sent into
the past to wonder on stage of the first showing of the same play. He
appeared at the place a particular character was supposed to appear so
he quoted the lines he remembered. He discovered later that the
character he remembered was not originally in the script and that Bill S.
had added the character *after* Moriarty had appeared. Moriarty's
question to Holmes was "Who wrote these lines if they were originally
quoted from memory?"

The above is somewhat rambling, very vague and probably not even totally
correct but if someone out there recognises the story/play/author....?
Ewan
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