The Musgrave Ritual: A Rocky Start

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Title: The Musgrave Ritual: A Rocky Start
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Crack
Summary: Time is fleeting.
                                                                                       
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“We couldn’t understand the directions correctly at first.” Holmes pondered the twine that had measured the vanished elm. “Reginald and I began with a jump to the left, then a step to the right. Hands on hips, knees in. A movement of the pelvis…”

Watson frowned as if trying to recall something. “The result?”

“It only seemed to warp time.”

The Musgrave Ritual: The Long Game is the Only One Worth Playing

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Title: The Long Game is the Only One Worth Playing (subtitle: 'Fiery Welsh Temperament' Hides a Multitude of Sins, Or Maybe Just One)
Canon Story: The Musgrave Ritual
Rating: Gen
Summary: 'Beyond the sea' isn't nearly as far as Holmes thinks it is.
Author's Note: Inspired by an exchange of comments on the comm around Christmas about the possiblity of Mr. and Mrs. Moriarty naming all of their offspring James.

“Well, if it isn’t the second house-maid!”
“Hello, Professor.”
“Don’t you have something to sweep?”
“Brunton. Musgrave. Holmes. Predictable. Blind. D’you like Hamlet, Jimmy?”
“Everybody does.”
“Every man thinks he’s a displaced prince. I like Through the Looking-Glass. I’m the only sane one in a mad dream.”
She produced a brilliant stone.
His jaw dropped.
“Mummy’s Christmas gift!” she cried.

Discussion Post: The Musgrave Ritual

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Musgrave Ritual, and the chosen topic is Servants.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Musgrave Ritual

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, are this week’s suggested poems to read—suggestions inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poems, and perhaps they may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.


All that is gold does not glitter

by J.R.R. Tolkien


Note from Rachel: This one is for the treasure hunt itself, of course. Although unfortunately I think the metaphorical blade that is reforged there at the end is Rachel Howell’s hatred.



Helas

by Oscar Wilde


Note from Rachel: My thinking on this poem is that it has something to say about Brunton, a man of tremendous intelligence whose potential was never allowed to fully develop, in part because of his unjust and underprivileged social position, but also in part because his fickle approach to his lover proved disastrous. The poet compares himself to a scroll which contains a secret but which has been so carelessly and confusingly overwritten that its original meaning and worth is lost – an analogy which ties Brunton and the Musgrave Ritual together.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the triolet. (The link will take you back to a previous poetry page.)


But you do not have to use that form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Musgrave Ritual in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!



Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Musgrave Ritual: Well-Documented Reasons

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Canon Story: The Musgrave Ritual
Title: Well-Documented Reasons
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: ...one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction. ...his papers were my great crux. I’ve suddenly realised what the obvious reason is for Holmes having to leave his previous lodgings.


“So why did you leave the rooms in Montague Street?” asked Watson.

He glanced cautiously at their singed curtains.

“Was it because of… ‘studying branches of science’?”

Holmes smiled.

“Actually it was due to piles of paper.”

“Of course,” said Watson, nodding.

“Oh, not mine,” said Holmes. “My fellow tenants handed in a petition saying it was me or them.”

The Musgrave Ritual: Just Like Nanny

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Canon Story: The Musgrave Ritual
Title: Just Like Nanny (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G
Ocelot's Note: We apologise for the recent delay in responding to correspondence.  On reflection it might not have been the best idea to delegate this to our sub-editor, who is a Sloth.


I have learned my lesson.  Now, whenever Holmes tries to tell me about one of his past cases, I insist he sorts his papers beforehand.  He complains I sound like his old nanny, “tidy up first, then you can have a story”, but for the sake of occasionally seeing the carpet I am willing to put up with his jibes.