The forest is abysmal;/ consider, though, the trees. I love that line ^__^
who doesn’t know the tales of old/ but knows his sleeping pattern? Such a good point.
The ore may lack in light,/ but shine these precious lines:/ The rest of me is a mere appendix./ This man has come for his own purpose, but he may stay for mine./ Consider the furniture! Well said - they are great lines.
But Holmes’s best trick of all?/ Old lady with baggy parasol! It is a wonderful detail to know about ^_^
Just for two?/ But who? But who? You know, when the young Doyle was setting up as a doctor, his little brother (about 13 I think) came to live with him as his page. And I read that Holmes and Watson was partly based on them living together - that is, Doyle is Holmes and Innes Doyle is Watson. I wonder if in Doyle's mind Watson and Billy the page were aspects of the same character... I've just checked the timing as well - Innes Doyle was an army officer who died 1919, and MAZA was published 1921. Who is this timeless lad,/ without whom Holmes can’t do... MAZA is not a good story but it suddenly becomes a great deal more poignant ^^"
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Re: Enuig
Date: 2017-06-18 04:23 pm (UTC)who doesn’t know the tales of old/ but knows his sleeping pattern? Such a good point.
The ore may lack in light,/ but shine these precious lines:/ The rest of me is a mere appendix./ This man has come for his own purpose, but he may stay for mine./ Consider the furniture! Well said - they are great lines.
But Holmes’s best trick of all?/ Old lady with baggy parasol! It is a wonderful detail to know about ^_^
Just for two?/ But who? But who? You know, when the young Doyle was setting up as a doctor, his little brother (about 13 I think) came to live with him as his page. And I read that Holmes and Watson was partly based on them living together - that is, Doyle is Holmes and Innes Doyle is Watson. I wonder if in Doyle's mind Watson and Billy the page were aspects of the same character... I've just checked the timing as well - Innes Doyle was an army officer who died 1919, and MAZA was published 1921. Who is this timeless lad,/ without whom Holmes can’t do... MAZA is not a good story but it suddenly becomes a great deal more poignant ^^"