The Three Students: Deja Vu

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Title: The Three Students: Deja Vu
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Gilchrist wasn’t even the cleverest cheat.

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Alas, all three students were guilty.

Gilchrist admitted to studying the Thucydides paper, and Daulat Ras to paying Bannister to copy the exam.

But Miles McLaren’s secret weapon lay under his bed – a disheveled and startlingly familiar person.

“Mr. Melas!” Holmes exclaimed.

The Greek interpreter shrugged. “This pays better, Mr. Holmes – and is far less dangerous than my last assignment!”

The Three Students: The More & Merrier

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Canon Story: The Three Students
Rating: Gen
Warning: Steampunk crack
Author's Note: "Watson I have always done you an injustice. There are others.“

Watson! When I said ‘there are others’…”
“I interpreted your comment as prescience, not condescension.”
“How benevolent. There on the lawn are three Watsons!”
“Yes, as I could not aide you in your research, I took a stroll and ended up volunteering at College of Futuristic Sciences with something called the H.G. Wells Replication Machine and now…”
“There are others.”

The Three Students: A Greek Abecedarian Play

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Title: A Greek Abecedarian Play
Rating: Gen
Length: 337
Content Notes: Crack, Omegaverse, an attempt at an abecedarian poem using the Greek alphabet and the meanings of the various letters from wikipedia-level research of terms
Author's Notes: I couldn't get the formatting right in a comment on the poetry page so I'm going to post it separately.( Read more... )

Discussion Post: The Three Students

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Three Students and the chosen topic is University Education.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Three Students

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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.



University

By Karl Shapiro


Note from Rachel: This poem highlights the prejudiced social structure underlying old-fashioned university life, more scandalous, corrupt, and harmful than the incident in this week's mystery. (Warning: the poem includes blunt description of racism and antisemitism).



Art & Craft

By Robin Coste Lewis


Note from Rachel: I cannot help but wonder whether students like Daulat Ras had to fight their way through a different kind of academic pressure - the temptation to conceal part of their talent in order to conform to the biases of the people around them. I imagine that even Sherlock Holmes might once have felt, as a young student, the urge to hide his light under a bushel in order to avoid the resentment of his peers.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the abecedarian. (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, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, 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, rhyming alliterisen, 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 Three Students in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Three Students: Further Frustration

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Canon Story: The Three Students
Title: Further Frustration (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I am very tired of being exiled to this university town, having been forced to find lodgings with a landlady who had not learnt of Holmes’ reputation.  Moreover, Lestrade is such a deuced bad correspondent I have scarcely heard from him.  And any more of Holmes’ clever remarks I may dig up the rose bed and bury him in it.

The Three Students: Playing the Three-Card Trick

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Canon Story: The Three Students
Title: Playing the Three-Card Trick
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine… [STUD] I will endeavour in my statement to avoid such terms as would serve to limit the events to any particular place, or give a clue as to the people concerned.


Holmes was reading Watson’s draft. “...in the year '95… spend some weeks?” He snorted.

“52 weeks is ‘some’ weeks,” said Watson primly.

Holmes raised an eyebrow. “And ‘one of our great university towns’..?”

“I received just as excellent an education as you, Holmes.”

Watson grinned.

“And it uses my readers’ assumptions against them. They’ll never guess we never left London!”