Only just caught this, but I loved it. Holmes at his most self-righteous, but ultimately not completely incorrect, Watson torn between what is and what perhaps ought to be, reality and fantasy colliding. These lines:
The newspapers are bound to describe what happened—”
“—or something reasonably close to it.”
“Yes. They are not free to do anything else.”:
Oh boy, how one wishes that were true. These days, they seem to feel free to describe just about anything they damn well like. Sigh.
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Date: 2011-08-24 06:53 pm (UTC)The newspapers are bound to describe what happened—”
“—or something reasonably close to it.”
“Yes. They are not free to do anything else.”:
Oh boy, how one wishes that were true. These days, they seem to feel free to describe just about anything they damn well like. Sigh.