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Part I. Opening the Conversation: 1. The conversation of a culture:strange powers of speech; Part II. Holmes in the Conversation of his Culture:2. 'To change the order of conversation'; 3. 'Collisions of discourse' I: theelectrodynamics of conversation; 4. 'Collisions of discourse' II: electricand oceanic currents of conversation; 5. A conversational approach to truth:the doctor in dialogue with contemporary truth-sayers; 6. Conversation and'therapeutic nihilism': the doctor in dialogue with contemporary medicine; 7.The self in conversation: the doctor in dialogue with contemporarypsychology; Part III. The Two Poles of Conversation: 8. The bipolar dynamicsof Holmes' household dialogues: levity and gravity; 9. Holmes' house divided:house-keeping and house-breaking; 10. 'Cutting off the communication':fixations and falls for the walled-in self: Holmes in dialogue with Sterne,Dickens, and Melville; 11. Breaking the house of romance: Holmes in dialoguewith Hawthorne; Part IV. Closing the Conversation: 12. Conclusions: HolmesSenior in dialogue with Holmes Junior.