Ooh! I adore canon Sherlock Holmes -- used to be a Bootmaker of Toronto way back when (that's a genuine Holmesian club BTW) ...and as you say one of the secret pleasures of watching BBC's Sherlock is the huge number of canon references that Gatiss and Moffatt have worked into the scripts. (Gatiss, I understand, is a particular fan of the Canon; his recent Twitter tribute to the late Edward Hardwicke was pulled straight out of "His Last Bow.")
Have you ever read The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, compiled by William Baring-Gould? It's probably a little too fanboy for most people; it's the entire corpus of SH as written by Conan Doyle *plus* extensive annotations giving background on the various elements of the story. Essential to all of these, of course, is the assumption that Holmes was real, Watson was real, and Conan Doyle himself was merely "the Editor". (Really, SH is the first fandom of the modern age. And its first [pseudo] slash was Rex Stout's provocative article, "Was Watson a Woman?" <3
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No doubt the more I read, the more bits I'll recognise (haven't even looked at A Study In Scarlet yet).
I haven't - my books are tiny little red things, about the size of my hand with gold edges to the pages, so they look gorgeous but they do have several pages of analysis by David Stuart Davies at the back which is interesting to read. I think when I'm done, I'll have to look up "Was Watson a Woman?".
It's getting better. It's gone from my hands and arms and even the scaly dryness is much better this morning. Last time it hung on for a week of proper red burning itchiness before I took the hydrocortisone to it, so this is an improvement. It's just the elbows, really. No idea what's caused it but I think I'll be taking my creams with me on every trip from now on.
(Note: this was entirely tongue in cheek, but nonetheless it caused a Sensation amongst the all-male Baker Street Irregulars back in 1941!)
And: Yay to the healing rash! Heh, the first time I got heat rash was on vacation in Ireland, and I had no idea then what might have caused it. Visited a doctor and paid ten quid for a spot of lotion... which I probably could have picked up at a chemist's for almost nothing ;-)
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Have you ever read The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, compiled by William Baring-Gould? It's probably a little too fanboy for most people; it's the entire corpus of SH as written by Conan Doyle *plus* extensive annotations giving background on the various elements of the story. Essential to all of these, of course, is the assumption that Holmes was real, Watson was real, and Conan Doyle himself was merely "the Editor". (Really, SH is the first fandom of the modern age. And its first [pseudo] slash was Rex Stout's provocative article, "Was Watson a Woman?" <3 ( ... )
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I haven't - my books are tiny little red things, about the size of my hand with gold edges to the pages, so they look gorgeous but they do have several pages of analysis by David Stuart Davies at the back which is interesting to read. I think when I'm done, I'll have to look up "Was Watson a Woman?".
It's getting better. It's gone from my hands and arms and even the scaly dryness is much better this morning. Last time it hung on for a week of proper red burning itchiness before I took the hydrocortisone to it, so this is an improvement. It's just the elbows, really. No idea what's caused it but I think I'll be taking my creams with me on every trip from now on.
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Watson Was a Woman by Rex Stout.
(Note: this was entirely tongue in cheek, but nonetheless it caused a Sensation amongst the all-male Baker Street Irregulars back in 1941!)
And: Yay to the healing rash! Heh, the first time I got heat rash was on vacation in Ireland, and I had no idea then what might have caused it. Visited a doctor and paid ten quid for a spot of lotion... which I probably could have picked up at a chemist's for almost nothing ;-)
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