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deerstalker |
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deerstalker a person who stalks deer, esp in order to shoot them How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Devotees of Holmes and slick on-stage capers should take to Rose's production like a celebrated sleuth takes to a freshly pressed deerstalker. The man with the deerstalker is more reassuring than most detectives, for he represents pure rationality, perpetually unswayed by sexual desire and immune to the petty curiosities and solipsism that plague the rest of us--a fact demonstrated in the passage in Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet" that relates the sleuth's indifference to the fact that the earth revolves around the sun. Holmes has traded his deerstalker for a space helmet (a necessity for tracking the Hound of the Baskervilles on the moon), and Dr. |
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