"The Naval Treaty: Lovely Thing" (60 words, NAVA)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Naval Treaty: Lovely Thing
Author: gardnerhill           
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: Watson quite agrees with his friend.


I watch Holmes holding his audience spellbound as he expounds on how flowers are the proof of divinity in creation. For a moment even poor Tadpole forgets his misery.

I cannot but agree with him, gazing at this remarkable man of prickly wit who conceals such a tender soul amid those outer barbs: What a lovely thing a rose is. 

Comments

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

And what a lovely thing your story is ^^

That's such a delightful interpretation of this curious interlude: Watson seeing Holmes himself as a rose. ...this remarkable man of prickly wit who conceals such a tender soul amid those outer barbs... It's a wonderful description.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

NAVA is very close to my heart - I wrote a song "What a Lovely Thing a Rose Is" in 1993 with that same theme.

[debriswoman]

Beautifully put:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

The world sees the prickly detective; Watson sees the rose.

[debriswoman]

Yep:-)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

And such a contrast to Holmes general view of man.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Holmes doesn't see his own lovely soul. That's what he has Watson for.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is just beautiful. I love what you did with that imagery.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I've adored that rose scene since the first airing of the Granada "Naval Treaty" - has diddly-all to do with the plot but everything to do with the kind of man Holmes is.