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Sherlockian Twaddle

1552461866

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Tolins, Steve

$33.00

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Here you will find not “ineffable twaddle,” but “Sherlockian twaddle.” You must be wondering, as I was, what those two strange words mean. Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary defines “ineffable” as “indescribable, unspeakable ... not to be uttered,” and “twaddle” as “idle talk ... babble ... drivel.” What we say about the Canon certainly cannot be “ineffable” but it certainly can be, and often is, “idle talk.” There are three main sections, “Short Twaddle” consists of poems, toasts, three minute talks. The second section, “Serious Twaddle”, contains “idle talk” that has been researched seriously and is, according to the Latin “effibilis,” “capable of being expressed.” (Thanks again to Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary) The third section consists of “Quiz Twaddle,” taken from the many quizzes given by Dr. Tolins during his fifteen years as official quizmaster of The Three Garridebs. So, I trust the reader will keep in mind that writings can be “ineffable” or, to the Latin scholar, “effable.” Steve Tolins In the year 1938 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Cornell and proceeded then to go through the course of studies prescribed for surgeons by the American Board of Surgery. The Second World War had broken out and I was called to active duty on December 8, 1941. Having served in various hospitals and clinics around the world, I was training with the Marines for the invasion of Japan when the war ended. I remained on active duty to finish surgical training and became Senior Fellow in Surgery at the Cook County Hospital in 1948. In 1949 I met and married Peggy Jiler, small, dainty and with a face that gave a clear promise of a refined and sensitive nature. I finally retired from the Navy in 1965 after serving in Korea in late 1950 and 1951. As one of the few Navy doctors certified by the American Board of Surgery I had begun teaching surgical residents in the years prior to my retirement. Having found that I enjoyed teaching, I managed to get established with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, from which I was retired in 1979 as Emeritus Associate Professor of Surgery. In 1982 I became a member of the Three Garridebs scion, investitured as “The Heidelberg Skull,” where for the past fifteen years I have been the official quizmaster. In 1991 I was investitured in the Baker Street Irregulars, “John Straker.” I have also become a member of the Five Orange Pips; Mrs. Hudson’s Cliff-dwellers and The Cornish Horrors.

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