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sounds good to me! I think we kinda lost Kurt thoBee wrote: ↑Fri 09 Jun, 2023, 3:02 pmSo do you guys want to wait another week before we move on to the next story? It's The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter!
Wikisource seems to only have the one copy this time.
@InspectorCaracal I'm quite a lot behind, so I think that's best.InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑Fri 09 Jun, 2023, 6:23 pmsounds good to me! I think we kinda lost Kurt thoBee wrote: ↑Fri 09 Jun, 2023, 3:02 pmSo do you guys want to wait another week before we move on to the next story? It's The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter!
Wikisource seems to only have the one copy this time.
@thiskurt you can just pick up here if catching up is daunting, Holmes stories don't really have continuity to worry about missing
So we're reading The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter this week and taking about on the weekend, right?thiskurt wrote: ↑Sun 11 Jun, 2023, 3:52 pm@InspectorCaracal I'm quite a lot behind, so I think that's best.InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑Fri 09 Jun, 2023, 6:23 pmsounds good to me! I think we kinda lost Kurt thoBee wrote: ↑Fri 09 Jun, 2023, 3:02 pmSo do you guys want to wait another week before we move on to the next story? It's The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter!
Wikisource seems to only have the one copy this time.
@thiskurt you can just pick up here if catching up is daunting, Holmes stories don't really have continuity to worry about missing
Yes, let's do it.Bee wrote: ↑Sun 11 Jun, 2023, 4:42 pmSo we're reading The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter this week and taking about on the weekend, right?thiskurt wrote: ↑Sun 11 Jun, 2023, 3:52 pm@InspectorCaracal I'm quite a lot behind, so I think that's best.InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑Fri 09 Jun, 2023, 6:23 pm
sounds good to me! I think we kinda lost Kurt tho
@thiskurt you can just pick up here if catching up is daunting, Holmes stories don't really have continuity to worry about missing
I used to, and still do, think the 'Holmes is an emotionless robot dedicated only to deduction' reading of Holmes' character was a pretty lazy one and blatantly wrong, to the point where I wondered where everyone got this consensus from. Turns out they just got it from Watson. If Watson helmed a TV adaptation of his own accounts I probably would not enjoy it.During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life. This reticence upon his part had increased the somewhat inhuman effect which he produced upon me, until sometimes I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence. His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships were both typical of his unemotional character, but not more so than his complete suppression of every reference to his own people.
How nice.The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men.
You know the even better detective brother we've never heard of before may be a bit of a retcon, but I've always liked Mycroft.my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.
Something about the way this is phrased really makes it feel like their skills are some sort of x-men superpower.His eyes, which were of a peculiarly light, watery gray, seemed to always retain that far-away, introspective look which I had only observed in Sherlock's when he was exerting his full powers.
UUUUUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHHHAnyway it's often speculated that the stories hint that he's supposed to be the son of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler
SEE, those are TOTALLY not related to crime fighting cmon)It was after tea on a summer evening, and the conversation, which had roamed in a desultory, spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic, came round at last to the question of atavism and hereditary aptitudes