#thecardboardbox

[bonusdragons]

January 12, 2024:

Copper Tertiary, Bogsneak, Keel.

Luigi of TheCardboardBox's clan!

[charliecomic]

The Cardboard Box

Day 2:

It practiced ‘sad face’ in her bathroom mirror. It practiced sad sounds out her window, so she couldn’t hear.

It wrapped a poke around her head to gently touch her hair.

So curly!

So…sweet.

It looked up ‘adorable’ in its dictionary and pushed the jumping beetle and licking puppies down a spot…make that two, no three!

It put a picture of her sleeping face as first, her curled fist as second, and her double socked toes as third.

‘Adorable!’ it tried out, and faltered on the ‘b’.

It perused her bookcase idly paging through the equations, eating up the numbers like ‘pop tarts’.

It ate a ‘pop tart’ it had dug out of her bag and found the ‘pop’ lacking. It wondered what she saw in them.

It wondered what she saw in her dreams.

It gently pressed one and then another seek into the soft epidermis of her cheek. What bloomed made it take a mental picture and paste it under “Our First Dream”.

So sweet.

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[charliecomic]

The Cardboard Box

Title: The Cardboard Box

Synopsis: A story about ordinary things, that become extraordinary.

Day 1: The important thing to note here is that on November 1st, 2015 the town of Cather experienced a few drops of an early morning rain, a newscaster on the local 4 who’s blue paisley tie was askew, a baker who sneezed into his donut batter (and went ahead and made them anyway), and Gregory Mc Pinter blowing up the top two floors on the left in the Shicksten Apartments for the Assisted Living on 248 Schicksten Street. Oh, and an orange tabby cat got their tail stepped on.

[auntpol430]

The Cardboard Box

Personally, I find this story fairly disturbing (I'm not a big fan of mailed body parts, to be honest) and not that compelling of a mystery. But there are some things I do like about it - I especially like the glimpses of the friendship and daily life of Holmes and Watson together. For example, the whole "mind-reading" trick that Holmes uses on Watson to prove an argument they had had earlier.  Well, argument is probably too strong a word because Watson claims not to have expressed his disbelief and Holmes utters these wonderful words, "Perhaps not with your tongue, my dear Watson, but certainly with your eyebrows." I know Moffat and Gatiss have claimed that Doyle did less explaining of Sherlock's thinking as the books went along - but this is a semi-late one and has that whole couple of pages devoted to it here.

I also really enjoy the lunch they have together during the case when all Sherlock would talk about was violins, in particular the new Stradivarius he had bought. To me those little parts that Doyle puts in shows the relationship between the two men so well. It's not as one-sided (in my opinion) as is often shown in movies and TV shows. I realize that the mediums are different and I do watch many of the versions with delight, but I find that in the stories, there are little touches of friendship and the joy they have together that are often lacking.

P.S. Thanks for starting this read-through. I think it will be a blast to revisit the canon stories with other people who are interested in them as well!