Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes
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Side account for reading through the Holmes canon (again) as well as other Holmes related thoughts. (she/her)
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If Dr John Watson passes up an opportunity to call a man’s fingers quivering and agile, assume he’s dead
The details matters, clothes maketh the man!
In Hound of the Baskervilles Watson takes center stage and leads the investigation on the scene. He takes on the role Holmes usually plays so I really like this moment in chapter one where the client isn’t able to tell which man is which
Client: I’m here to see Sherlock Holmes, are you Sherlock Holmes?
Holmes: You mean am I Watson’s friend? Yeah! Did you want to talk to him?
Watson simply loves to Mean Girl his clients
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
"Don't move, I beg you, Watson. He is a professional brother of yours, and your presence may be of assistance to me."

In fact, Watson is going to have to do fucking everything this case.
Something about loyal dogs in Hound of the Baskervilles. Mortimer’s dog carrying the stick Mortimer forgets, the titular hound reflecting dark vengeance, and then Watson taking the role of watchdog on Holmes’ orders…
I think he’s just really bad at this
Wait until you read him describing plants!
Arthur Conan Doyle: Hound of the Baskervilles is 1889. I established this 3 times

Me: And Watson lives with Holmes?

ACD: Yes! I establish that all through the book!

Me: And Watson married a woman and moved out in 1887/88?

ACD: Yes!

Me: So which-?

ACD: don’t worry kitten

Me: okay ❤️

Me: Yay ❤️
Watson needs to be called “Good boy” right now or he’ll literally die.

I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.
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"Has anything escaped me?" I asked with some self-importance.
“I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt."

He had never said as much before

Okay jokes aside: I hate them.
“Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”

You heard the man, Dr Watson has a remarkable power of stimulating geniuses 😉
“you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.”

I know this can sound backhanded, but remember that Watson took it as a compliment. Watson doesn’t *want* to be luminous, Watson *wants* to be useful above all else.
Holmes is indifferent to the the Sherlock Holmes canon published in The Strand

What he is grateful for is *Watson*. Watson admiring him, Watson joining him, Watson putting in effort.

And Watson can’t see that
Something really interesting in here:
W: I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods.

H: in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements
I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure
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some panels from the comic for the holmes zine…🫦