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my name is Dr john Watson and if the
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name Morardi still strikes fear in your
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heart then you only know half the truth
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this is not a story of a manhunt this is
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the unraveling of a myth you see when
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Sherlock Holmes spoke of Professor
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Morardi it was with reverence with
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admiration even with something close to
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fear he called him the Napoleon of crime
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a mind so vast and so precise that it
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ruled over a vast criminal underworld
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hidden in the shadows of London a spider
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at the center of a web but I Watson
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never once saw the spider not in person
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not in evidence not even in rumor
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outside Holmes's own lips that silence
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haunted me and years after Holmes's
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final bow at the Reichenbach Falls I
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began to dig not through the case files
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he left behind but through the lies he
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hid in plain sight and what I found was
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that Morardi may not have been a man at
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all he may have been something far more
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an idea holmes first mentioned the name
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during a case involving missing naval
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intelligence a theft with no obvious
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suspect and yet Holmes claimed to know
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the culprit within minutes
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professor Morardi he declared a man of
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mathematics turned mastermind brilliant
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invisible indeed i searched university
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registries no professor Morardi ever
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taught at any institution Holmes claimed
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i tracked the supposed residences empty
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i questioned those Holmes claimed had
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spoken of him none remembered some were
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puzzled one even laughed yet crimes
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continued to be solved crimes Holmes had
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no business knowing about he blamed
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always Mori Arti the web grew but webs
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are spun by hands and the more I looked
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the more I feared those hands were
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Holmes's own why create a villain
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because a villain justifies a hero
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holmes had always loved control over
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crime over narrative over truth and what
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better way to be the unquestioned savior
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of London than to invent an enemy only
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he could defeat he drew maps of
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organizations linked names to events
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drew arrows and lines but none of it was
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ever verified it was like watching an
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author at work not a detective and yet I
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believed him because belief is easier
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then came Reichenbach holmes claimed he
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and Morardi had fallen together that
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only one of them survived he left behind
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a letter explaining that Mori Arti had
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threatened all he held dear but no body
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was found not Morardi's not Holmes only
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Holmes returned morardi he said was gone
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his empire in ruins yet not a single
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gang was arrested no evidence ever came
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forward no crime syndicate collapsed it
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was as if it had never existed because
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perhaps it never had i now believe Mori
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Arti was Holmes's greatest disguise he
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wore it when he needed to explain away
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knowledge he shouldn't have he invoked
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it when the pattern seemed too perfect
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he blamed it when his fingerprints were
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too close i believe Holmes created
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morardi the way a magician creates
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misdirection to keep the eyes of the
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world on a ghost while he pulled the
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strings and I fear I helped him my
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writings turned Holmes into a legend and
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Mori Arti into a monster and somewhere
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in between I buried the truth that the
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greatest threat to London was not hiding
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in the shadows he was standing in the
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light smiling and now all these years
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later I ask you to consider this what if
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Morardi was never the villain what if he
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was never even real what if he was a
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mask Holmes wore to kill without
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consequence and what does that make me
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the chronicler of a hero or the
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accomplice to a lie this is the question
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I live with this is the story the world
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never wanted to hear and now you have
