More Sherlockian drabbles...
... or 60 word-bles, done for sherlock60. They are lovely! You should check them out!
The tall man put a finger to his lips, and led the slim youth on his arm into the lodging-house across the Place de la Comédie.
“You see, Mrs. Norton,” Sherlock Holmes said quietly, looking down, “my deception is really quite necessary.”
“Indeed. Even though you did kill your nemesis, and his lieutenant learned of your escape within an hour?”
Author’s note: I figured I'd try my hand at some popular fanon about the Hiatus... partly inspired by a comparable scene in Nicholas Meyer's The Canary Trainer. I was also partly inspired by the question of honestly, how called for was all of this, really?
The best way of acting a part is to be it, but most eschew such idiocy for good reason. Forgiving Holmes was easier than even I expected, considering the state he was in - confusing a reversion for a remainder, for instance, or swooning quite genuinely when he rose. He knows how I appreciate being needed, and need me he does.
1) I had to interpret this story as an(other) example of Holmes putting his work way before common sense, and assume that the general unhealthiness of this plan actually did start affecting his thinking by its final stage. Watson, in his account, presumably tried to tidy it up and make Holmes seem more glorious, but could only do so much. 2) As has been suggested ( e.g. by Prof. Stephen Alton in The Game is Afoot!: The Significance of Donative Transfers in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, volume 46 issue 1 of the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal (and the best law review article ever)), a remainder may be more likely than a reversion here. Perhaps Watson (and/or Holmes) put the reversion back into his account as an inside joke?
The tall man put a finger to his lips, and led the slim youth on his arm into the lodging-house across the Place de la Comédie.
“You see, Mrs. Norton,” Sherlock Holmes said quietly, looking down, “my deception is really quite necessary.”
“Indeed. Even though you did kill your nemesis, and his lieutenant learned of your escape within an hour?”
Author’s note: I figured I'd try my hand at some popular fanon about the Hiatus... partly inspired by a comparable scene in Nicholas Meyer's The Canary Trainer. I was also partly inspired by the question of honestly, how called for was all of this, really?
The best way of acting a part is to be it, but most eschew such idiocy for good reason. Forgiving Holmes was easier than even I expected, considering the state he was in - confusing a reversion for a remainder, for instance, or swooning quite genuinely when he rose. He knows how I appreciate being needed, and need me he does.
1) I had to interpret this story as an(other) example of Holmes putting his work way before common sense, and assume that the general unhealthiness of this plan actually did start affecting his thinking by its final stage. Watson, in his account, presumably tried to tidy it up and make Holmes seem more glorious, but could only do so much. 2) As has been suggested ( e.g. by Prof. Stephen Alton in The Game is Afoot!: The Significance of Donative Transfers in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, volume 46 issue 1 of the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal (and the best law review article ever)), a remainder may be more likely than a reversion here. Perhaps Watson (and/or Holmes) put the reversion back into his account as an inside joke?