Mar 31, 2017
every time watson says he can’t tell us about a particular case, i’m pretty sure it’s just code for holmes and i went on holiday and had a ridiculous amount of very loud sex
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every time watson says he can’t tell us about a particular case, i’m pretty sure it’s just code for holmes and i went on holiday and had a ridiculous amount of very loud sex
London to Lyon in 24 hours...
“I received a telegram from Lyons, which informed me that Holmes was lying ill in the Hotel Dulong. Within twenty-four hours I was in his sick room.”
I have done some googling...and it is surprisingly difficult to find info about victorian travel times...but 24 hours from London to France?
Even by today’s travel (see above) using the ferry and train, it STILL takes 10 hours! And that is using a high speed train, which wouldn’t have been an option for Watson.
Watson must have moved heaven and earth to be with his “friend” that night.
I love them.
It was destined, however, that all my professional caution should be wasted.
John Watson, The Adventure of the Reigate Squire
I can actually imagine Watson pouting like ‘Holmes never listens to me. :(’
For the week of March 27th - April 3rd, we’ll be tackling two short stories and one of them is a doozy!
The Adventure of the Reigate Squire (#REIG ACD)
and
A Scandal in Bohemia (#SCAN ACD)
Reigate Squire is roughly 7000 words, and Scandal comes in just shy of 9000, so I think we can handle it.
Readers and “scholars” have been getting the relationship between Adler and Holmes consistently wrong for 130 years. Let’s take the time to give it the reading it deserves. Be silly, be serious...it’s all fine. Holmes, Watson, and Adler deserve to have the record set to rights.
(If you have questions about the timeline we are following, check out the link in the header)
Feel free to read at your own pace this week, we will be tracking the tags for both stories and posting what we find as the week goes on.
So. Watson gets several invitations to see his bachelor army friend and always refuses unless his Holmes can be with him. And Holmes only goes there after he learned that the Colonel is a bachelor and they can be free there. What that does to my poor head! I imagine the conversation! Watson: You are not well. We should go to the country. I know someone from my army days who lives in Reigate and... Holmes: I need a little comfort! I need kisses and cuddles! How would it help me to be where I can't have that? Watson: You can have all the comfort you need. He is a bachelor, too. But if you don't want to go thrn I'll go there on my own... Holmes: And he invited you? You'll never go there alone! I'll pack my bag.
Holmes in The Reigate Squires at first pointed out four clues he saw in the handwriting. He wrapped up with, “There were twenty-three other deductions which would be of more interest to experts than to you.”
But Holmes couldn’t help himself. A couple paragraphs later, he started in again: “I am sure that you cannot fail to be delighted with the traces of heredity shown in the p's and in the tails of the g's. The absence of the i-dots in the old man's writing is also most characteristic.” Holmes was too excited about his findings to stop -- like at the first meeting with his “Never mind. [...] The question now is about hœmoglobin.” I love it.
John and Sherlock are peak married and john still checks out other men.
“Oh, yes you do, McMurdo,” cried Sherlock Holmes genially. “I don’t think you can have forgotten me. Don’t you remember that amateur who fought three rounds with you at Alison’s rooms on the night of your benefit four years back?”
“Not Mr. Sherlock Holmes!” roared the prize-fighter. “God’s truth! how could I have mistook you? If instead o’ standin’ there so quiet you had just stepped up and given me that cross-hit of yours under the jaw, I’d ha’ known you without a question. Ah, you’re one that has wasted your gifts, you have! You might have aimed high, if you had joined the fancy.” ( The Sign of Four)
11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman. (A Study In Scarlet)