Holmes Public Library

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    ““No, no; the real name,” said Holmes sweetly. “It is always awkward doing business with an alias.””
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
    Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
    Sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “With sighs more lunar than bronchial,
    Howbeit eluding fallopian diagnosis,
    She simpers into the tribal library and reads
    That Keats died of tuberculosis . . .”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)