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ETA - Sorry, I removed the first paragraph. It was unkind because I was feeling unhappy and unwell.
In better news, jigsaw92301 brought me a Smithsonian magazine, yesterday, with an article about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in it - "The London of Sherlock Holmes" - and it starts right out with talking about how Doyle met Oscar Wilde at that dinner given by the guy who convinced them both to write more (yeah, the name of the guy who gave that dinner escapes me at the moment) and hypothesises that Doyle purposely made Holmes more 'dark' because of Wilde's influence. There had only been one story about Holmes before that ("Study in Scarlet") and in the next story ("Sign of Four") he adds the drug use. So, not 'made him more gay,' they wouldn't admit to that, but the author of the article does imagine that Wilde's influence made Holmes more interesting. And according to Graham Robb in "Strangers" drug use was one of those wink-wink-nudge-nudge codes for 'I can't legally tell you this, but this character is meant to be gay!' in Victorian literature. "Monsters are such interesting people," to quote Bugs Bunny. :)
Gotta get do doing things. Photocopies of tax forms to be made, need to look around for my Dad's glasses (He still can't find them, and that must be difficult - I hope they didn't drop out of his bag somewhere. I'll look in the back of the car, he does seem to leave pockets of his bag open often.), need to post stuff on binne*, and there's stuff to do for the England trip.
Completely unrelated to the England trip, there's a five euro note sitting on my desk, which makes me smile. :)
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*Published slash fanfic of "Pride and Prejudice"! :)
In better news, jigsaw92301 brought me a Smithsonian magazine, yesterday, with an article about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in it - "The London of Sherlock Holmes" - and it starts right out with talking about how Doyle met Oscar Wilde at that dinner given by the guy who convinced them both to write more (yeah, the name of the guy who gave that dinner escapes me at the moment) and hypothesises that Doyle purposely made Holmes more 'dark' because of Wilde's influence. There had only been one story about Holmes before that ("Study in Scarlet") and in the next story ("Sign of Four") he adds the drug use. So, not 'made him more gay,' they wouldn't admit to that, but the author of the article does imagine that Wilde's influence made Holmes more interesting. And according to Graham Robb in "Strangers" drug use was one of those wink-wink-nudge-nudge codes for 'I can't legally tell you this, but this character is meant to be gay!' in Victorian literature. "Monsters are such interesting people," to quote Bugs Bunny. :)
Gotta get do doing things. Photocopies of tax forms to be made, need to look around for my Dad's glasses (He still can't find them, and that must be difficult - I hope they didn't drop out of his bag somewhere. I'll look in the back of the car, he does seem to leave pockets of his bag open often.), need to post stuff on binne*, and there's stuff to do for the England trip.
Completely unrelated to the England trip, there's a five euro note sitting on my desk, which makes me smile. :)
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*Published slash fanfic of "Pride and Prejudice"! :)
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