[ SECRET POST #3169 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3169 ⌋

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Comments

Re: And now for something completely different

[dreemyweird]

Well, there are two slightly different ways to interpret VEIL, which is something a friend of mine drew my attention to. I loved VEIL at the time, so I told her as much (she's a Holmesian, too). She said she feels kind of weird about it because Holmes with his "your life does not belong to you" comes off as slightly douchey instead of sympathetic.

Now, I'd always been sure that it was just Holmes' clumsy way of trying to stop the poor lady from committing suicide. But now it sometimes looks to me like this is a view ACD genuinely held (suicide is bad because you must use your life to serve God and the society or something), not because he sympathized with suicidal people, but because he was a bit bigoted? And when I think this, I can no longer enjoy VEIL the same way I used to.

Re: And now for something completely different

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nayrt

Yeah, I got the feeling the religious argument was ACD's genuine belief, and for that reason the speech left a bad taste in my mouth. My only consolation is a Watsonian reading that Holmes was sympathetic but, like you mentioned, his phrasing was clumsy.