{"id":258,"date":"2011-03-08T05:04:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T17:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=258"},"modified":"2011-03-08T05:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T17:04:49","slug":"from-the-sherlockian-by-graham-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"From The Sherlockian, by Graham Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On why people like mysteries (from pages 255-256):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I think I love the idea that problems have solutions. \u00a0I think that&#8217;s the appeal of \u00a0mystery stories. . . . \u00a0As opposed to \u00a0a world that&#8217;s random. . . . Not knowing is the worst outcome for any mystery story, because we need to believe that everything in the world is knowable. \u00a0Justice is optional, but answers, at least, are mandatory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FD wonders if these attitudes are colored by the studies of the author, who has a degree in religious history. \u00a0Anyway, he also says (page 287),<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;He&#8217;d read thousands of \u00a0happy endings and thousands of sad ones, and he had found himself satisfied with both. \u00a0What he had not read, he now realized, were the moments after the endings. . . . \u00a0 \u00a0 . . . he had never before thought that find one [an answer\/solution to a mystery], and then having to go on living with it, might be worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On why people like mysteries (from pages 255-256): &#8220;I think I love the idea that problems have solutions. \u00a0I think that&#8217;s the appeal of \u00a0mystery stories. . . . \u00a0As opposed to \u00a0a world that&#8217;s random. . . . Not knowing is the worst outcome for any mystery story, because we need to believe that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}