The Greek Interpreter: Or Nearly All

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Title: The Greek Interpreter: Or Nearly All
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: It’s not just Greek to Mr. Melas.

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“Chinese?” I asked.

”Wǒ zhǐ néng shuō yīdiǎn zhōngguó.” Mr. Melas smiled. “I find that both this tongue, and Japanese, are crucial languages to master these days.”

“Really, Watson,” Holmes chided.

So I spoke in in a language that made Holmes blink and turn his head.

Mr. Melas smiled and replied in the same language, “I speak some Pashto, too.”

***
Author’s Note: Mr. Melas says “I speak a little Chinese.”

The Greek Interpreter: Nature vs. Nurture

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Title: Nature vs. Nurture
Canon Story: The Greek Interpreter
Rating: Gen
Summary: Holmes and Watson resume their conversation
Author's Note: Reader's choice as to what inclination/vice Watson is referring to. Ukele-playing, anyone?

“Nature or nurture, Watson? The tree from whence the acorn falls or the soil of its landing?”

“Both, I suppose, plus the sun and rain that grace it. As a young man, I had certain inclinations, which I actively cultivated and which Providence has seen fit to afford opportunities for honing. “

“Another set of vices when you’re well?”

“Indeed.”

Discussion Post: The Greek Interpreter

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Greek Interpreter and the chosen topic is Victorian Artists.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Greek Interpreter

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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.


Death

by Rainer Maria Rilke


Note from Rachel: This poem speaks to me of Paul Kratides, the long silence through which he resisted his captors, and the tragic end to his life.



Modern Declaration

by Edna St. Vincent Millay


Note from Rachel: For Mycroft Holmes, I like this poem because it seems to me that his love for his brother is one of the aspects of his subtle, political, complicated life that has always remained steadfast, simple, and true.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the Tyburn. (The link takes 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, florette, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, 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 Greek Interpreter in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Greek Interpreter: In The Blood

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Canon Story: The Greek Interpreter
Title: In The Blood
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: "It is a mercy that you are on the side of the force, and not against it, Mr. Holmes," remarked the inspector, as he noted the clever way in which my friend had forced back the catch.


“Where did you learn that trick with the catch, Holmes?”

“My mother taught me.”

Watson raised an eyebrow.

Holmes nodded.

“Apparently Mama first met Papa while burgling his family home on a dare. She stole his heart. And his collection of toy soldiers.”

Holmes sighed.

“Papa used to insist marrying her was the only way he could get them back.”

The Greek Interpreter: Blood

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Title: Blood
Author: godsdaisiechain
Canon: The Greek Interpreter
Rating: G
Notes: Sophia does come see Harold because she's lonely.


Blood, blood, and more blood.  Sophia felt as if she could never wash it from her hands, her mind, her heart.  She did her duty by Paul, and killed the man she once loved, but her feminine perception, as Sherlock Holmes called it, told her that life would never be the same again.

Next time, she would choose more wisely.

The Greek Interpreter: Brothers

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Canon Story: The Greek Interpreter
Title: Brothers (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I had imagined when Holmes first mentioned his brother that they were in some way estranged. However, relations between them were clearly cordial and as far as I could tell they were in the habit of meeting every few weeks. And neither thought it strange Holmes had not spoken of Mycroft up to this point, his existence presumably being irrelevant.

The Greek Interpreter: Some Particulars

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Canon Story: The Greek Interpreter
Title: Some Particulars
Author: sanguinity
Rating: PG
Warnings: intimate partner abuse

 

On discovering her brother's torture, Sophia finally understood: it was never her defects that caused Harold to act so. She cowered before his anger and promised obedience, to be good, to come away quietly. Not for her own life, but Paul's.

Harold apologised later, as he always did.

But this time she recognised the crocodile's tears, and did not forgive.