Sigegard Ainsworth, Chapter 9
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A mystery serial presented as a contemporary homage to Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.
Chapter Nine: In which we reason our way through our shock, finding truth in fiction, and also finding a sinister self-evident truth about the murderers of Mrs. Ciminelli.
An excerpt:
“Liars and thieves,” Sige said. “And now murderers. That world is at once very true and also pure fiction. I wonder if there’s anything in that aesthetic which might be considered true: murderers born of lies and thievery. Would it be that such careful thieves created a logic within their lies which is not true, and yielded murder, such that Mrs. Ciminelli is no longer a real-life character? She now descends into the Hades of fiction, doesn’t she? A paragraph in the newspaper, and, even worse, a web page on a poorly-run funeral home website. She is the quickly fading figment of a few imaginations; whereas Sherlock Holmes is reinvigorated more than a century after his creator has set him free.”
“They’ve erred, you said,” I said.
“They have erred,” he replied. “She lied to them somehow, whether directly or by employing me—she signaled lies to them, and one of them—wait a second…” He paused and stared at me.
“What?”
He continued staring, but his eyes became blank, looking inward.
“You’re creeping me out,” I said, after a time.
“I’m such an idiot,” he said. “I’ve erred. They’ve erred and I’ve erred. Fortunately, I’ve erred in the realm of truth. They’ve erred in the realm of lies, and that’s just the break we were looking for.”
“It is?”
“Don’t you see it, John? Thievery and lies: it is their mode, how they exist—no, no, that will never do. It is their mode in that the world encounters them blinking on and off in their rhythm of lies. Does that make sense? If I, a denizen of the realm of truth, having so engaged and encountered them, immediately made them out as liars, clever as they were, wouldn’t it follow that other liars would discover them?”
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