A new grassroots movement called ‘sardines’ is fighting against Italy's rightwing strongman Matteo Salvini across the nation after a spectacular launch in Bologna last week.

Sherlockians term their light‐hearted conjectures the “Writings upon the Writings,” but the Great Game in some respects resembles the contemporary pan‐fandom practice of fanwanking.

This in turn would neatly avoid the obvious paradox that in blindsight brute, non-conscious, non-unified, purposeless mental processing somehow exerts finegrained control over our conscious cognition and intentional body movements.

Nine-tenths of Englishmen hurrying through France find the monotony dreary, the same unfenced, wide-spreading sketches of land, the same bloused and sabotted peasantry, the same poplars on the road sides, and lime trees in the public places of the towns.