Among others, that's a very good point about Roylott's double personality. Considering how consistently he screwed up, there's a good chance he would have found to have been clinically insane.
I do agree about Percy - possibly an alias deliberately chosen by Dr Watson. I think myself she was desperate to leave home. There might not have been much affection on either side.
I never knew about there not being a swamp adder. Thanks.
Of the non-warning, I do think the snake was of the species smokeandmirrus watsonicus. But if I'm wrong, Holmes might not have known it was a snake to be expected. (Some sort of device? Even a method of opening the wall?)
edit re Percy, rather irrelevantly I'm insering a quote from Lawrence Durrel.Have you ever noticed (said Antrobus) that people called Percy are almost invariably imbeciles? Perhaps the name confers a fatal instability upon the poor souls; perhaps it is chosen as the most appropriate for those who, from birth, show all the signs of being lathe-turned morons...Anyway, it is a fact. Hearing the name I know I need never look at the face. I am sure of the ears spread to the four winds like banana-leaves, sure of the lustreless eyes, the drooling mouth, hammer-toes and so on...Percy is as Percy looks in my experience.
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Date: 2015-03-29 04:15 pm (UTC)I do agree about Percy - possibly an alias deliberately chosen by Dr Watson. I think myself she was desperate to leave home. There might not have been much affection on either side.
I never knew about there not being a swamp adder. Thanks.
Of the non-warning, I do think the snake was of the species smokeandmirrus watsonicus. But if I'm wrong, Holmes might not have known it was a snake to be expected. (Some sort of device? Even a method of opening the wall?)
edit re Percy, rather irrelevantly I'm insering a quote from Lawrence Durrel.Have you ever noticed (said Antrobus) that people called Percy are almost invariably imbeciles? Perhaps the name confers a fatal instability upon the poor souls; perhaps it is chosen as the most appropriate for those who, from birth, show all the signs of being lathe-turned morons...Anyway, it is a fact. Hearing the name I know I need never look at the face. I am sure of the ears spread to the four winds like banana-leaves, sure of the lustreless eyes, the drooling mouth, hammer-toes and so on...Percy is as Percy looks in my experience.