December 2010
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SHERLOCK HOLMES IS SIMPLY THE GREATEST.
EVERY SINGLE SHERLOCK HOLMES. JUST LOOK.
THE MERE FACT THAT I’M STILL MISSING A BUNCH OF PORTRAYALS OF THIS BAMF CHARACTER IS SAYING SOMETHING. SOMETHING LIKE “SHERLOCK HOLMES IS SO FANTASTIC, SO COMPLEX AND SO WONDERFUL, IT IS NECESSARY FOR COUNTLESS ADAPTATIONS TO BE MADE IN ORDER TO BEGIN TO GET ACROSS HOW AWESOME HE AND HIS MAGNIFICENT WORLD IS.”...
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Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet how remote That age before the world went all awry. But still the game’s afoot for those with ears Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo: England is England yet, for all our fears– Only those things the heart believes are true.
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As...
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After watching Sherlock Holmes for the *insert...
paper-nocturne:
Various lovely scenic shots
Kelly Reilly has cute hands too
Watson’s ass
There’s something very attractive about rolled up sleeves
Constable MF Clark.
Coward’s boner for Blackwood
The noise Watson makes after strangling Dredger
BAMF Watson and the faces he makes
Watson’s cane and all of the sexual innuendos attached to it
Stuff like that.
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Perhaps the greatest of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries is this: that when we talk...
– - T.S. Eliot (from a review of The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, 1929)
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The Sherlockian
In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective’s next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off. London spiraled into mourning — crowds sported black armbands in grief — and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin. Then in 1901, just as...
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