Samuel Taylor Coleridge and hurt/comfort fic

Apr 05, 2011 10:59

As a follow-up to 'By the Book', I can't resist quoting this bit from a biography of Coleridge I dipped into:

For Coleridge, the act of nursing or being nursed, and the intimacy of the sickroom, eventually became an emblem of true love and understanding. Sickroom incidents are frequent in his life, and gradually begin to pass into his poetry as ( Read more... )

hurt/comfort, life jim as i know it

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kalypso_v April 5 2011, 10:26:44 UTC
Ah, you beat me to it, sort of. I fell asleep wondering if Coleridge's response to Sherlock's name was a Richard Holmes joke.

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fengirl88 April 5 2011, 11:24:19 UTC
as you said before, STC h/c slashfic has to happen! not sure if anyone's going to write it in time for Wordsworth's birthday, though.

disastrolabe has a video called "Competition Smile" which may be relevant to your interests...

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rec post: other people's creations pingback_bot April 5 2011, 11:45:41 UTC
User fengirl88 referenced to your post from rec post: other people's creations saying: [...] (Sherlock, John, time-travel and jokes I wouldn't dream of spoiling for you) and her follow-up post [...]

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shezan April 5 2011, 19:55:44 UTC
... written by a Holmes, too...

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