![]() ![]() Second, that embedded celebration of silence highlights an essential aspect of Doyle’s text, a fundamental textual ambivalence. First the Diogenes is not so much an improbable oxymoron as a rather alert parody of what can be considered as the central ambivalence of nineteenth-century gentlemen’s clubs, where the open intention of socialisation went along with a more dissident desire for privacy.
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