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by morgan on Dec.08, 2009, under John Joseph Adams
Welcome to John Joseph Adams.
In honor of his anthology, the Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and the new Holmes film opening Christmas Day, Babel Clash asks the hard questions. We’ll begin with a real puzzler: “Who’s smarter, Sherlock Holmes or Gandalf?”
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December 8th, 2009 on 1:11 pm
I’ve got to go with Gandalf. While they’re both brilliant, Sherlock’s only had one standard human lifetime to gather information. Gandalf has been alive for at least 5k years!