#Carruthers

[sherlockianscholar]

the solitary cyclist from the canon, in my opinion and acd's, is not the greatest work among doyle's repetoire. but i would like to call to your attention one point that has needled me since i first read this story.

violet (yes, one of the six violets in the canon) smith takes on a live-in music teaching position in the country for her un-married employers' (carruthers) ten year old daughter. the daughter is mentioned once in the entire story, during violet's exposition at 221b. violet goes back to the country with no further mention of the girl. after the ruckus and holmes/watson's intervention, carruthers and the others get arrested and taken to jail. off the father goes without making any inquiry into the fate of his daughter nor does violet comment on it.

now the granada episode (which i'm rather fond of) seals up this plot hole, simply and sweetly, by having violet and her soon-to-be husband look after the daughter while her father's in jail. but that doesn't happen in the story. which leads me to wonder...considering the lack of attention by violet or carruthers, did she run away or die (i say, very tongue in cheek)? did carruthers just say fuck them kids and abandon her?

or my personal favorite, did he hire a random 10 year old girl for this express purpose? given the absolute chaos and ever-unfolding half-baked schemes concocted by every member of carruthers and co, i can imagine those men coming up with something that ridiculous.

acd makes a lot of mistakes and slip-ups in the canon, but honestly, if i could ask him one question, this stupid pedantic detail would be high on the list.

[fuzzkaizer]

Carruthers - DYNA-SOAR

"... Not sure where the name "Carruthers" comes from, but they're the faceless builder that's associated with the infamous Dyna-Soar fuzz (from the early 80s). Most notably used by @kimletgordon , the original Dyna-Soar is a super heavy, sludgy Big Muff clone of sorts. The "Lite" version, which I've had for over a decade, is essentially the same circuit but with a strange configuration of the transistors that make it sound more like a chunky overdrive than a fuzz. Interestingly enough, the one I have was modded by the previous owner back into its original Muffy glory! So I had been waiting and searching for nearly 13 years to find an actual Dyna-Soar to compare it to, and finally last week I nabbed one. 😎 Both are pretty intense with the amount of gain that's available. The only other Muff style pedal that comes close would be the Maxon OD-801. The modded "Lite" I have is oddly articulate, even at the highest gain setting, but still punishing. While the regular Dyna-Soar has a mountain of low-end that can dooooooom for eons..."

cred: instagram.com/ed_skymall

[eirinstiva]

"I could do nothing alone"

Letter from Carruthers!!! And this time Davies and Carruthers are making the effort to talk to each other not like certain thieves.

I found myself continually trying to see the man through the boy, to distinguish sober judgement from the hot-headed vagaries of youth. Not that I dreamed for a moment of dismissing the story of his wreck as an hallucination. His clear blue eyes and sane simplicity threw ridicule on such treatment.

Carruthers using a microscope to analyse Davies: "Yeah, maybe he spent too much time alone in the sea."

If my theory, as you call it, is right, it’s a case for sharp wits, if ever there was one; so I thought of you.

Aww~ Davies is a mess! Can we talk about how Davies tries to explain everything to Carruthers? His mind is running and that makes difficult to explain his idea, his reasons to call Carruthers and giving an apology. He has a really good opinion about his friend (?) Carruthers.

“It’s a delicate matter,” I mused, dubiously, “if your theory’s correct. Spying on a spy——” “It’s not like that,” said Davies, indignantly. “Anyone who likes can sail about there and explore those waters. I say, you don’t really think it’s like that, do you?”

I don't believe this lie, but if it makes Davies happy, I'll let it pass.

The man’s an Englishman, and if he’s in with Germany he’s a traitor to us, and we as Englishmen have a right to expose him. If we can’t do it without spying we’ve a right to spy, at our own risk——” “There’s a stronger argument than that. He tried to take your life.”

Carruthers and his cold head are really useful here. Davies seems to be more impulsive than Carruthers and has an emotional intensity that needs a more calm and rational approach of the situation. On the other side Carruthers is slowly letting the desire for adventures to fill his soul, same soul that was captured by work.

Let's see how their relationship evolves and if they can keep their sanity.

[literallywhyamidoingthis]

Things heard in my philosophy a-level class:

"I've slammed Descartes like three times in this essay already..."

"I always imagine Hume coming in on a skateboard, wearing sunglasses."

"I was explaining intuition and deduction thesis to my mum and now she hates Descartes."

"I actually liked Aristotle until he said that only white, male philosophers can flourish."

"... the evil demon, a.k.a. Mr. Phillippou, ..." [an ex-philosophy teacher of our school]

The teacher: "left-handed people are superior. I tried to force my kids to be left-handed when they were learning to write..."

"Descartes pisses me the fuck off."

"... G. E. Moore, a.k.a. G. E. Awful, ..."

"I love error theory. It just says that everyone is wrong all the time."

"What's that guy in the Gettier example with the barns called?" "Barney." "No, no, it's Henry." "Wait, Henry? I thought it was Harry!"

"I always remember that name because my great aunt named her pet rabbit 'Carruthers'."

"But the concept of infinity doesn't make sense!" "Well, according to Georg Cantor's set theory, it does." "What even is set theory, then?" "Don't even go there. You don't need to know, so just don't ask."

"Onto and Teleo are okay, but I just can't with Cosmo. Don't even get me started on Aquinas' ways..."

"Eschatological verification is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. No offence to Hick or anything..."

"Do you think Richard Hare's friends ever called him 'Dick Hair'?"

"I don't understand how some people can even doubt qualia..."

"P-zombies freak me out."

"So you'd be willing to concede that if everyone in China had walkie-talkies, they'd be considered a mind?" "... I mean, yeah. Why not?" "You're not supposed to say yes!"

[giftideasfromaycaramba]

Relax

[fake-80s-yaoi]

so i'm watching never too young to die (cuz of gene simmons lol) and i think i found a lil stranger things easter egg....

danja deering's license plate in never too young to die!! which i think reads 'ITCE-4....' and then some other numbers… i see a ‘6’ and maybe a ‘5’ or an ‘S…’

billy's license plate in stranger things!!! which reads, as u can probably see, 'PCE 235.' both are blue and yellow californian license plates and both have a 'CE' in the beginning

but if that’s not enough 2 convince u, here’s the real evidence: the main character in never too young to die's last name is "stargrove" and billy's last name is "hargrove"

coincidence???? i think not

[clancarruthers]

IRISH BOXTY - POTATO PANCAKES - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

IRISH BOXTY – POTATO PANCAKES – CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

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[secretsofthewilde]

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[charlybird]

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[pecquacti]

badlands (1973) post

[arthursfuckinghat]

Arthur Morgan thinks he's an ugly old fool yet he had not only women falling for him, but even the funny little station clerk in Rhodes that literally fell for him on the spot

[louisbxne]

AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000)

[eirinstiva]

"Meiner Freund"

There's a new letter from meiner Freund Carruthers! This start a bit depressive with the fog and lack of light but there's something new!

“Oh, I quite forgot!” said Davies, who had been kneeling on one knee in the low doorway, absorbed in his visitor. “This is ‘meiner Freund,’ Herr Carruthers. Carruthers, this is my friend, Schiffer Bartels, of the galliot Johannes.”

Poor Carruthers, Davies got distracted easily when he sees another seaman. Thanks, Bartels! You were the one necessary to make Davies talk.

“You know what I was saying about the Frisian Islands the other day? A thing happened there which I never told you, when you were asking about my cruise.” “It began near Norderney,” I put in. “How did you guess that?” he asked. “You’re a bad hand at duplicity,” I replied. “Go on.”

The missing page? Oh~ let's see what happened... We need the charts!

A German yacht? that wouldn't be something strange.

I meant to visit her owner later on, but I very nearly changed my mind, as I always feel rather a fool on smart yachts, and my German isn’t very good. However, I thought I might as well; so, after dinner, when it was dark, I sculled over in the dinghy, hailed a sailor on deck, said who I was, and asked if I could see the owner. 

My man Davies spent three days with a very fancy and very mysterious German who was inspecting him under a microscope, and he did it with his A1 certificate in German language.

“Oh, I lunched or dined with him once or twice—with them, I ought to say,” he added, hurriedly. “His daughter was with him. She didn’t appear the evening I first called.”

Another woman mentioned in this story! No name yet, but I got distracted by the dangerous adventure of Davies. He really is getting more and more interesting.

I had just a glimpse of still another Davies—a Davies five years older throbbing with deep emotions, scorn, passion, and stubborn purpose; a being above my plane, of sterner stuff, wider scope.

Dude...

Davies had a really crazy adventure following the German yacht Medusa. I have some memories of that time I navigated the Valdivia river estuary and feeling the ship (a small one) moved once we entered the sea... How the hell did Davies resisted that moment?????

“Well, it was like this—there was really no danger”—I opened my eyes at the characteristic phrase. “I mean, that lucky stumble into a channel was my salvation.

The rest of the story is, as Carruthers said, "Greek to me". What really matters is that Davies is alive and Bartels helped him.

“The whole affair was over; and after supper I thought hard about it all.”

I will think about this until the next letter ⚓

[eddie-redcliffe]

[appropriatelystupid]

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