Sporadically speaking

750 words. PG for implications of drug use.
Sherlock gets ill: John does something about it. One of those slice of life snippets that I seem to be forever compulsively writing.

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I was horrified by my first glimpse of Holmes next morning, for he sat by the fire holding his tiny hypodermic syringe. I associated that instrument with the single weakness of his nature, and I feared the worst when I saw it glittering in his hand. He laughed at my expression of dismay, and laid it upon the table.

"No, no, my dear fellow, there is no cause for alarm. It is not upon this occasion the instrument of evil, but it will rather prove to be the key which will unlock our mystery. On this syringe I base all my hopes."
- Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter)


This quote taken out of context amuses me far too much simply because it could broadly be taken to be a case of Holmes saying “Don’t worry, old chap. I’ve take some coke now everything’s going to be fine”.

In other news, I received a very polite friending request via pm over the weekend and now that I’ve come round to respond to it I’ve discovered that the sender has their LJ messaging function set to only allow messages from people they’ve already friended or perhaps from nobody at all, since LJ won’t tell me which it is specifically. I’ve no idea what the default setting is since I have mine set to allow messages from all registered users but it does seems just like LJ to have any defaults set to the most awkward option possible.

Egypt Society of Bristol newsletter Issue 23.

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Aside from that, I’ve been watching Granada reruns while semi-convalescing and watching several episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in quick succession really has highlighted that David Burke’s Watson really was much louder and proactive than Edward Hardwicke’s version. As a child I recall preferring Hardwicke’s version, possibly because I felt that Holmes ought to be the only person leaping around for dramatic effect and Watson doing similar detracted from that but I suspect that I ought to go back and read some of the actual stories to refresh my memory as to which actually was accurate. I also need to get myself a complete copy of the stores with the Sidney Paget illustrations since I’m not convinced that I actually have all of them, though in the meantime while watching the TV adaptation I probably ought to stop eyeing the set critically and noting that the Royal Academy of Music should be just out of shot during a wide pan during the opening.

In other news, I suspect that I’m beginning to go off standard Café Crèmes which is a curious thing to have happen.