The Red-Headed League: Sherlock Holmes

[undonne.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Author:undonne
Rating: G

Sherlock Holmes

The great detective, Sherlock Holmes,
will someday retire to Sussex honeycombes.
But not today, as cunning Mister Clay discovers, to his rue.
The work, dear Watson, the work c’est tout.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

This is a wonderful summary of Holmes' life. And your rhyming is excellent - I am envious of your ability.

[undonne.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Rhyme is so much fun. Can't even aspire to Dylan, though (from "Hurricane.")

We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple mur-
Der
On him,
He ain't no Gentlemen Jim.

:)

[vaysh]

Awww - this comment makes me both nostalgic and happy. Bob Dylan has a way with words, and this quote from Hurricane is awesome.

[undonne.livejournal.com]

:) and there's always the venerable "Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull/From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol." He's the master.

[vaysh]

I spent my formative teenage years (badly) translating Dylan's lyrics into German, and I am sure I learned much of my sense of English from him. He is the master, indeed.

[undonne.livejournal.com]

Mein Gott, ich kann es mir nicht vorstellen. He barely makes sense in English most of the time. :)

[vaysh]

Vor einiges Zeit sind mir meine alten Dylan-Übersetzungen wieder mal in die Hände gefallen, und ich hatte absolut wörtlich übersetzt, also: sehr schlechtes Deutsch. But I do believe that I got a much more lyrical way into the English language than if I had only read novels. :)

[undonne.livejournal.com]

Well, my (very little) German is from graduate school theology (Barth and such) and housewife's German from when I lived in Augsburg many years ago. Skewed and mostly gone.

[vaysh]

Gorgeous. Rhyming Holmes with Sussex honeycombes is just ingenious and so precious. I love how you took up the Flaubert quote from the story to make this perfect point about Watson. Kudos!

[undonne.livejournal.com]

Love that quote! Sherlock speaking French and quoting Flaubert makes my little fangirl heart go pitter-pat. :) Thanks!

[debriswoman]

Hello!
And very well done:-)

[undonne.livejournal.com]

Hi there! :waves: and thanks.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a perfect clerihew ^^" "Holmes/honeycombes" is masterly, and your last line puts a big smile on my face ^_^

[undonne.livejournal.com]

So glad you liked it! My first, so I have a question. "Watson" is difficult, unless there's a case with a dachshund that I'm not remembering. Is "...John Watson, M.D." fair game as the end of a first line or is that cheating? :)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

*now can't stop thinking about a case involving Watson and a dachshund*

Well, I've written two clerihews for Dr. Watson, and came up with the rhymes "hot sun" and "plots on" :P ("Showing off"..? I've no idea what you mean...) Is "John Watson, M.D." cheating? Well, I would say that if you come up with a great rhyme for "M.D." no-one is going to care one way or the other ^___^

The Case of the Water-Logged Dachshund

[undonne.livejournal.com]

Good ones! Showing off? Isn't that part of the fun? :g: As to the case of Watson and the dachshund...

Dr. John Watson
rescued Lady Montague's drowning dachshund
from the flotsam.
Holmes, sadly, was unable to save her opossum.

:slaps self:

Re: The Case of the Water-Logged Dachshund

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear... ^^"

*giggles* You're going to fit in very well ^___^

Re: The Case of the Water-Logged Dachshund

[undonne.livejournal.com]

o/\o Thanks for making me feel so welcome.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

If you consider some of the dubious rhymes we've used I think most things are fair game. It's not as if there's any competition, just entertainment.

[undonne.livejournal.com]

I love dubious rhymes. See above. :)

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

Anyone who can work French into a clerihew and have it feel like it communicates something a mere English translation wouldn't deserves a hearty huzzah in my book. Nicely done on all of this.

[undonne.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much!

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Bravo! Thanks for a masterly clerihew.

[undonne.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me into the fun.