![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
methylviolet10b posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
sherlock60Author: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Summary: Holmes reads between the lines.
Warnings: Spoilers for an important event in 3GAR.
Word Count: 60, plus an extended-play version (100 words).
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories. In this case, also inspired by the original publication date of 3GAR (1924).
Disclaimer: I don't own them.
3GAR – Method
The details have been changed almost beyond recognition; certainly beyond the ken of his casual readers. But I am no novice in understanding Watson’s writing. He is dozing in his chair, but I need not wake him to understand.
It is 1924, and although Watson’s health is failing, he is still with me. History could have so easily gone otherwise.
Extended-play edition (100 words):
The details of the case are changed almost beyond recognition; certainly beyond the ken of his casual readers. But I am no novice in understanding Watson’s writing. The detailed description of a hermit scholar cut off from all others; the almost-trivialized description of an injury (and a fall, I can still see him stagger and collapse in my mind’s eye) that l briefly believed fatal.
He is dozing in his chair, but I need not wake him to understand. It is 1924, and although Watson’s health is failing, he is still with me. History could have so easily gone otherwise.
methylviolet10bRating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Summary: Holmes reads between the lines.
Warnings: Spoilers for an important event in 3GAR.
Word Count: 60, plus an extended-play version (100 words).
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories. In this case, also inspired by the original publication date of 3GAR (1924).
Disclaimer: I don't own them.
The details have been changed almost beyond recognition; certainly beyond the ken of his casual readers. But I am no novice in understanding Watson’s writing. He is dozing in his chair, but I need not wake him to understand.
It is 1924, and although Watson’s health is failing, he is still with me. History could have so easily gone otherwise.
Extended-play edition (100 words):
The details of the case are changed almost beyond recognition; certainly beyond the ken of his casual readers. But I am no novice in understanding Watson’s writing. The detailed description of a hermit scholar cut off from all others; the almost-trivialized description of an injury (and a fall, I can still see him stagger and collapse in my mind’s eye) that l briefly believed fatal.
He is dozing in his chair, but I need not wake him to understand. It is 1924, and although Watson’s health is failing, he is still with me. History could have so easily gone otherwise.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2013-08-27 11:08 pm (UTC)I can still see him stagger and collapse in my mind’s eye
That memory, outlined in just a few words is searing to Holmes and the reader. So well done.
no subject
Date: 2013-09-02 07:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-28 12:05 am (UTC)Well done
no subject
Date: 2013-09-02 07:41 am (UTC)60 Words for 60 Cases: The Three Garridebs
Date: 2013-08-28 05:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-28 11:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-02 07:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-29 01:49 pm (UTC)Rational thinking machine? I think not!
no subject
Date: 2013-09-02 07:43 am (UTC)