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‘But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow on the waters that was soon lost in the West. There still he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.’

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A Study in Scarlet

Wilhelmine Norman-Neruda (1839–1911), later known as Lady Hallé, was a virtuoso solo violinist who, like Holmes, played on a Stradivarius. She was an international star at a time when the instrument was still seen as ‘unlady-like’.

As many have noted before, Chopin never wrote any pieces for solo violin, nor was he part of Norman-Neruda’s usual repertoire. If she did perform a Chopin piece, it would most likely have been as an encore or during a private concert, and would have to have been arranged before the events of A Study in Scarlet.

Theories range from assigning specific Chopin (and controversially non-Chopin) pieces to the vague “Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay”, to suggesting that Holmes never actually said “Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay”. In Vera Mazzotta’s extensively researched article for The Watsonian (Vol. 5 No. 2), she selects Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 34 No. 1. In the 1989 BBC Radio adaptation, the problem is solved by removing any reference to the composer and using a piece from the more recent Carmen.

I’ve always been content to think that Watson would remember the composer but not necessarily the tune, and the “little thing” could be, well, anything Chopinesque, yet there still remains a probability that Holmes himself, who has been guilty of misquoting once or twice, could as easily get it wrong.

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generally you shouldn't write run-on sentences because they get confusing and it doesn't give the reader a break. that doesn't apply to me though my run-on sentences are fun and understandable and they have a rhythm to it that makes you want to keep reading

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piece i made for a local exhibition in occasion of trans day of visibility. the title is "maltese scene"

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defiance, personified

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hello here’s some sexy vampire content 🎩🍷🐏

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ppl use "death of the author" to mean fucking anything they want on this site. i've seen people use it to fucking defend transmisogynistic jokes in movies??? thats literally the opposite of Death of the Author. thats Death of the Text. that's just not engaging with the conversation.

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one of the top 10 peter jackson's creative choices was seeing the one (1) sentence about the beacons being lit in RotK and going "I'm going to film a scene that is so absolutely iconic based on this"

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i do think there should be more stories and shows and stuff about guys falling in love with butch women actually, i think that’d be a good thing. and not ‘this is as butch as twitter can handle’, i mean butch as can fucking be without apology, and making those boys weak in the knees about it. i think it’s great actually to have f/m romances that exist to break gender norms, too. i think it sucks that the only mainstream het romances that exist are either about women who are already feminine or with women who are just a little too scarily masculine and have to be fixed into being girlier. that’s shit.

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Jar with snakes and giraffes

Egypt, Lower Nubia, Karanog Cemetery

Meroitic Period, 100 BCE - 300 CE

Ceramic, paint; H. 34 cm, Dia. 29.4

Penn Museum E8183

“Undulating snakes curve around the top of this jar. On the frieze below, giraffes - which were native to Upper Nubia - eat from tall trees.”

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[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

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"with his cruel bow he laid full low the harmless albatross" — the rime of the ancient mariner

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Covers of some of Sherlock Holmes’s works. ✍️

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people b saying things so definitively. like man i think it depends

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Every once in a while Merlin is just trending and it makes me cackle cause wdym a show that ended a decade ago is trending and nothings happened

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livestock