#annotated sherlock holmes

[sherlockianscholar]

yikes, who hurt you

From The Annotated Sherlock Holmes edited by William S. Baring-Gould

[sherlockianscholar]

Honestly tho. I’m up at 4:30 AM cross referencing Baring-Gould’s Annotated Sherlock Holmes and Klinger’s New Annotated Sherlock Holmes 😅

the sherlock holmes brainrot is so real I say as I do none of the work I was supposed to catch up on during the weekend

[brilliantorinsane]

What's really funny about the below post regarding Leslie Klinger's "firm belief" that Holmes and Watson's relationship was "free from homoerotic content" is that. While in the course of annotating and collating scholarship about Sign of Four and Valley of Fear he never once alluded to it ever occurring to anyone that Holmes and Watson could have something queer going on. He did, however, report the following theories:

That Mary came to Baker Street with the intent to try and marry Holmes, then shifted to Watson upon discovering him to be a more likely prospect

That in the course of their marriage Mary was jealously convinced she was second in Watson's heart to the true great love of his life ... Helen Stoner from Speckled Band

That Holmes also fell in love with Mary, and was heartbroken that Watson beat him to the proposal

And, my personal favourite: That Watson had an on-again-off-again affair with Irene Adler, culminating in marriage when the both of them left their spouses for one another.

[lowliest-manifestations]

Some of my sillier SH annotations.

[mustfindcreativeusername]

Do you know. DO YOU KNOW. I read the Sherlock Holmes books in Romanian, right, cuz my mom got them for me and I wanna use them. So anyway I was very excited to finally reach The Dying Detective. Cause I'm on Tumblr a lot, I knew what happens. And I knew about "Quick, man, if you love me". So I'm approaching that part in the book. Omg yayy here we go. I turn the page.

"Quick, man, if you care about me!"

Ehem.

What.

My dude that does NOT convey the same thing and you KNOW it.

"Love" is a pretty easy word to translate, I mean you learn it pretty early on. Earlier than "coward" and certainly earlier than "spineless", which is what you are.

What, did you think it was weird? Were you so afraid that it would sound gay that you chose to translate incorrectly???

Literally the first fucking thing they teach you in a translation class is DON'T BE AFRAID TO TRANSLATE!! LIKE ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?? And it wasn't.. There were no rude words involved cuz that's usually what this is referring to but No it was just SOMEONE SAYING "IF YOU LOVE ME".TO HIS FRIEND OF MANY YEARS!

Look at me. Someone who doesn't know English reading your translation will never know that he said "if you love me". Does that seem fair? It was your job to convey the same message, but in another language. And you. Didn't.

"Dacă ții la mine"

Gabriel when I fucking catch you

[el-ffej]

As best I can determine, whenever Baring-Gould encountered an inconsistency in his timeline, he filled it with a new wife for Watson.🤦🏽‍♀️

For what it's worth (very little), my ACD Holmes story timeline theology headcanon:

The order the stories were published is not the order they occur in.

When there are conflicts between stories that cannot be resolved through reordering: Watson got his notes mixed up about the dates. (I think Holmes makes a crack about Watson's handwriting someplace in the canon.)

Codicil: Almost all of said conflicts are due to Watson's wife (Mary Morstan), or wives (no more than 2!). The remaining handful are all Watson knowing about Professor Moriarty in The Valley of Fear and acting like he'd never of him in The Final Problem. (Literary license, dammit!)

Noble Bachelor doodles I HAVE A THEORY and I have to make it funny or else I will cry

[mx-lauricedeauxnim]

2012 Tumblr would be going crazy if I told them that I was having a class breakdown of a BBC Sherlock episode.

[debaixodaluaazul]

a very cozy christmas to you all 🤍

[crystaltreebee]

anyone be interested in seeing my annotations of Sherlock Holmes that I have. It’s not completed and it’s nothing too extravagant but it’s silly.

[el-ffej]

Just from the binding: Wooooo! (Looking it up, apparently the Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics, Omnibus edition).

I have the annotated Holmes volumes**; but when I'm just reading the stories, I prefer my hardbound Complete Sherlock Holmes by Doubleday (has the Christopher Morley introduction, published somewhere sometime between 1930 and 1960***).

The annotations are fascinating, but for me, they get in the way of the story. That's why an unabridged complete volume like the one above is a fixture around home.

**Actually, both the old Baring-Gould Annotated Holmes and the Klinger New Annotated Holmes. (*cringe*) They're both very good but different.

**The Doubleday Complete Holmes volumes were reprinted every couple of years due to demand (I don't think the contents every changed), so it can be tough to tell when it was actually printed.

contemplating getting a different edition of sherlock holmes collection since mine is kind of flimsy and falling apart

[blistering-typhoons]

MY FATHER FOUND THE BOOK! HE'S GONNA TRY AND SHIP IT TO ME-

it's in it's case and everything!

[sherlockianscholar]

my happy place

[darchildre]

A fun thing about reorganizing my bookshelves is that I've been reminded of various books that I own that either I never got around to reading, or that I haven't read in a long time. (eg, 15 years ago, I collected copies of all of Margery Allingham's Campion novels and only read about half of them, out of order - now I'm inspired to read the whole series!)

And a thing about reorganizing my bookshelves that I have indescribable feelings about is realizing that I own seven separate copies of Dracula.

[el-ffej]

Yeah, most of the published Sherlockians from the first half of the 20th century had some pretty questionable theories and headcanons, IMO. Davis wrote some beautiful, atmospheric essays on the joys of the Holmes and Watson canon; but then there's the example you provide above...

And Baring-Gould had his own bette noir theories in his Annotated volume that made me roll my eyes (even at age 11); primarily his attempts to argue that Holmes was related by blood to a bevy of other fictional detectives. E.g., Nero Wolfe being the son of Sherlock (or Mycroft). *sigh*

(The one exception I can think of would be Dorothy Sayers -- her essays and articles on Holmes hold up pretty well.)

I’m reading the Baring-Gould Annotated Sherlock Holmes, here are some gems:

Caricature of Arthur Conan Doyle crying and chained to his fictional character because he hated writing Holmes stories SO MUCH

Literally a drawing of me reading the Final Problem

An incomplete list of parodies of Holmes’s and Watson’s names, tag yourself

[holmesoldfellow]

Hey y'all, I should've posted this before but if you're interested, the Rosenbach Museum and Library is doing Sherlock Mondays from today until the end of April, every Monday at 7pm EST, with a story per episode (going until The Empty House) except for novellas, which get two weeks. You can register for it at the previous link to receive all the information in emails. They describe it as a "verbal annotation" with a special Sherlockian guest each week, and the emails also include a cocktail recipe to go with each story. It streams on YouTube and will also be available a few days later as a podcast on all major podcast places. If you're interested I encourage y'all to check it out! It's totally free, but there will be extra paid episodes available afterwards.

[teaspoonnebula]

Review of Klinger's New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, according to Malkin the cat:

BOX: 10/10, very comfortable.

BOOK: Smells interesting