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Wasn't the number 1895? Nate Send a noteboard - 03/01/2012 08:30:29 PM
If so, it's probably not a clue to anything, but just a friendly reference to a famous line about the Sherlock Holmes stories. One of the biggest Holmes websites is called Always 1895, which in turn is a reference to the years when the original Holmes and Watson were in their prime and a symbol of how in the eternal Victorian world of Sherlock Holmes it is always 1895. The line comes from a poem about Holmes written in the 1942 by Vincent Starrett. I reprint it here:

Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game’s afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears–
Only those things the heart believes are true.

A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five.
Warder to starry_nite

Chapterfish — Nate's Writing Blog
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