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The reader may set me down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavoured to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself. Before pronouncing judgment, however, be it remembered, how objectless was my life, and how little there was to engage my attention. My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence. Under these circumstances, I eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion, and spent much of my time in endeavouring to unravel it.

'Hopeless busybody' were not quite the words I would chose, Watson, rather something along the lines of 'starstruck with a crush the size of a supernova'. And I love you all the more for it. Not a bad coping mechanism at all in such a situation

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"One of our best statesmen has said that a change of work is the best rest" - Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four.

What statesman??

I was surprised to hear this line, because, having grown up in Russia, I've always known this quote to be attributed to Lenin! But of course Lenin came into view long after Doyle's book was written.

I did some research just now and it seems this exact quote does get attributed to ACD himself, though similar proverbs were found earlier in the 19th century in England.

Anyway, I like that proverb, and I would be very curious to know which "statesman" ACD meant here.

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"In the early dawn I woke with a start, and was surprised to find him by my bedside" 😌 (The Sign of the Four)

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i am a clownery enjoyer (mycroft is not)

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Just learned about garden path sentences.

They’re basically a literary prank– the sentence starts out in such a way that you think you know where it’s going, but the way it ends completely changes the meaning while still being a complete and logical sentence. Usually it deals with double meanings, or with words that can be multiple parts of speech, like nouns and verbs or nouns and adjectives.

So we get gems like

The old man the boat. (The old people are manning the boat)

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. (The apartment complex is home to both married and single soldiers, plus their families)

The prime number few. (People who are excellent are few in number.)

The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississipi. (The cotton that clothing is made of)

The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. (As in he ducks out of his responsibilities)

We painted the wall with cracks. (The cracked wall is the one that was pained.)

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Interesting points! Though I wouldn't necessarily say that he's "assholish" to cops. It's more like.. he's dismissive and snooty, and bitter because they take all the credit for his work - but on the other hand he is happy to help them for free (I think?), and says that some of them "show promise". He doesn't give them all the clues, but he does give them *some*, and I think he enjoys seeing what they make of them. He treats them like pets or children, more than anything. (This is only based on the first 1.5 novels I've read so far though.)

One area where I feel like ACD's Holmes differs from modern interpretations is the degree of Holmes' lack of empathy. He is certainly eccentric, single-minded and arrogant in the books, but he does not come across as uncaring or unkind.

To me it seems that in modern characterisations (including fanfiction), he often comes across as if he doesn't understand other people's emotions, or has no regard for them. But this is not at all true in the books.

Just as an example, in "The Sign of the Four" he asks Watson if he's up for a six-mile track, and even after Watson confirms, Holmes asks again if it might give Watson's injured leg any trouble. There are also other examples where he does display appropriate empathy when speaking to an upset client, and so on. The characterisation is more nuanced here.

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I felt like doodling and then this came out of it 🤷🏻‍♀️

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I love the little beat in The Sign of the Four, when Toby, the mongrel with the golden nose, leads Holmes and Watson completely astray.

Somehow, I expected Holmes to have a fit of anger - instead, the two of them burst out laughing.

Later, for the first but hopefully not the last time, Holmes plays the violin to help Watson sleep. 🥹

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"Never trust a woman completely" (Holmes in "The Sign of the Four")

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So, apparently, sugar cubes were used as dog treats in the past? 🤔 That can't be healthy.

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It will never not be funny when Watson says "I ejaculated" (for "exclaimed").

I'm sorry, I'm a child.

Watson also calls Holmes "my singularly endowed lodger" 🤭.

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One area where I feel like ACD's Holmes differs from modern interpretations is the degree of Holmes' lack of empathy. He is certainly eccentric, single-minded and arrogant in the books, but he does not come across as uncaring or unkind.

To me it seems that in modern characterisations (including fanfiction), he often comes across as if he doesn't understand other people's emotions, or has no regard for them. But this is not at all true in the books.

Just as an example, in "The Sign of the Four" he asks Watson if he's up for a six-mile track, and even after Watson confirms, Holmes asks again if it might give Watson's injured leg any trouble. There are also other examples where he does display appropriate empathy when speaking to an upset client, and so on. The characterisation is more nuanced here.

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So Stephen Fry (in his intro to "The Sign of the Four") reckons that ACD has partly modelled Sherlock Holmes after Oscar Wilde, whom he met when the second Holmes novel was commissioned, and whom he greatly admired.

ACD publicly praised Wilde and his "Dorian Gray" at a time when the novel was held in disregard as proof of Wilde's "immorality".

I really like that idea! (And not only because Wilde was gay.. but also because of that, yes.)

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“it is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.” (Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study In Scarlet")

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“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” (Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet)

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Huevember Day 2

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