Crate of Curios part 24
Spring is approaching with mighty steps and the weather is typically moody, alternating between windy, sunny, and mildly chilly. I wish I could say that lockdown is finally about to end, but as everything else it’s floating in the air like the kites of Clean Monday will be tomorrow. And as technically it already is Clean Monday, let’s get to opening this week’s Crate without delay.
- My personal history with detective stories goes a long way back, and I remember coming across the name of Pinkerton Detective Agency in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Valley of Fear”. However, Mr. Doyle never mentioned the agency also employing the first female detective Kate Warne, who after convincing Allan Pinkerton to hire her, went on to have a stellar career as a private investigator.
2. In some countries one can flush toilet paper. In others one really shouldn’t. And then there’s Greenland.
3. Artists and novel writers have a prevailing reputation for eccentricity, but as it seems children’s book authors are no exception.
4. Ex-communist project buildings don’t carry much of a reputation of cosiness or homeliness, yet when you’ve grown up in one, you know that there’s something there — a special atmosphere you can’t really find elsewhere.
5. There are virtue and vice, light and dark, high and low, yin and yang — and then there are the Ancient Greek concepts of sophrosyne and hubris.
6. And to finish off, a nod towards the seemingly eternal lockdown from Tom Gauld.
And that was it for this time. Happy reading and until next week!
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Originally published at http://bonaramis.com on March 15, 2021.
