[ SECRET POST #2580 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2580 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: First Time Sherlock Holmes Readthrough III (ignore if you're uninterested, etc)

[dreemyweird]

Actually, I think this last one is due to an elegant, albeit a little lazy, literature device some 19th century authors were extremely fond of using. It was considered good manners to start your story, or even just a paragraph of your story, in a roundabout manner that would give the reader only a subtle hint as to what was going to come next. Thus, you wouldn't write "he walked up to me and hit me square in the jaw"; rather, you'd write something like this:

"I cannot say that I'm a man with little experience when it comes to these situations in which one finds himself hard pressed to continue confronting his opponent verbally and considers resorting to the more physical methods of persuasion. Nor would I claim that I have never been on the receiving end of the deal. But, admittedly, it did come as a surprise when the foppish gentleman with a white moony face walked up to me and hit me square in the jaw."

Re: First Time Sherlock Holmes Readthrough III (ignore if you're uninterested, etc)

[intrigueing]

Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure I've seen that in other books of that period as well, but I meant that that's the only way that Watson says cool things about himself, not that it's a way of writing specific to the SH stories. ;)

Also LOLOLOL at that paragraph. ACD would never write anything so flowery, but that could fit almost perfectly into the mouth of a character from, like, Oscar Wilde.

Re: First Time Sherlock Holmes Readthrough III (ignore if you're uninterested, etc)

[dreemyweird]

True; I was rather thinking about ACD's intentions - maybe it wasn't a deliberately crafted part of Watson's characterization so much as a "man how do u start a story" case. Which is, of course, authorial intent and stuff *sighs*. My attraction to the matters of authorial intent shall be the ruin of me, I feel.

But on a lower meta-level, certainly. Watson is a humble fellow :D