The Golden Pince-Nez: Coda

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Title: The Golden Pince-Nez: Coda
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: One silver lining.

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After delivering the packet to the Russian Embassy, Holmes and I gave the sad case no more thought.

But one day in mid-April Mrs. Hudson announced a visitor – a gaunt man in his forties wearing an ill-fitting suit, who fell to his knees to kiss Holmes’ hand.

“Mr. Alexis Petrikov, I only carried out Anna’s wishes.” But Holmes blinked hard.

The Golden Pince Nez: A Round for the House

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Canon Story: The Golden Pince Nez
Warning: CRACK, gallows/dark humour
Summary: Watson's quick thinking makes for a happier ending.
Author's Note: One recipe for a corpse reviver is two parts cognac, 1 part apple brandy and sweet vermouth, neat.


I raced back, glass in hand. “Holmes, quick!”
“Too late, my dear man, even for the most remedying of remedies known to medicine.”
“No! It’s never too late. Not for cognac, brandy, and sweet vermouth!”
“Why didn’t you say so? Hurry, Doctor!”
I poured the concoction down the lady’s gullet and she sprang like Lazarus.
“Corpse reviver, indeed,” murmured Hopkins.

Discussion Post: The Golden Pince-Nez

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Golden Pince-Nez and the chosen topic is Opticians.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Golden Pince-Nez

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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, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it 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.



“Yet to die. Unalone still.”

By Osip Mandelstam, translation by John High

Note from Rachel: This poem seems to reflect the deep emotional connection, perhaps strengthened by their shared betrayal and suffering, that Anna felt towards her imprisoned friend, contrasting that pure feeling with her disdain for her wretched husband. In her dying moments, she was not alone in her heart.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested poetry form to revisit this week: the beeswing. (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, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, line messaging, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, 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 Golden Pince-Nez in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Golden Pince-Nez: Interloper

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Canon Story: The Golden Pince-Nez
Title: Interloper (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

The doctor’s journal contains nothing of interest.  There is my poor inspector wet through and no mention of the importance of ensuring he was warm and dry.  Nor is there an adequate description of the dear man and how sweetly his hair curled where the rain drops had landed on it.  Inspector Hopkins deserves considerably better than Dr Watson recorded.

The Golden Pince-Nez: Sight Test

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Canon Story: The Golden Pince-Nez
Title: Sight Test
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G


Mrs. Hudson set her new pince-nez firmly on her nose.

“There!”

She gazed about 221B.

“It’ll help so much with the cleaning. Now I can see everything in detail and…”

Her voice trailed away as she stared at the floor, the furniture. The ceiling.

With shaking hand, Mrs. Hudson removed the glasses.

“Perhaps I’ll just wear them… for special occasions.”