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Letters From Watson Liveblog - Dec. 1

The Blanched Soldier, Part 1 of 3

Thinking about it now, the fact Watson is a doctor and has recreationally read medical texts and monographs before tells me that, if he wanted, he probably could write a very fact-based and rigid study of the adventures he's been on. The type of thing that Holmes would view rather more favorably than the "popular taste."

And now Holmes realizes why Watson writes the way he does, for a general audience and not studiers of observation. Does this mean Holmes is therefore attempting to mimic the way Watson writes? Which is a pretty good excuse on Doyle's part to not change writing styles.

Even in a story where Watson is absent, Holmes takes the opportunity as narrator to compliment Watson and his unique qualities.

I don't remember who this wife is supposed to be, but I'm pretty sure it's not Mary. Regardless, I love the implied bitterness from Holmes calling it a "selfish action" and the short line at the end simply stating "I was alone." You can tell he's lost without his Boswell.

Holmes astonishing Mr. Dodd with his observations, combined with his deduction of him as an army man, feels like a parallel to Holmes' first meeting with Watson.

There must be numerous interesting cases Holmes could have written about, but the fact he chose one about a man who has lost his best friend and is willing to do anything to get him back is such a good contextual way to show he misses Watson, if that was the intention.

For a story that is entirely absent of Watson, I sure have talked a lot about him in disregard to the actual plot. It's like one of those situations where a character's absence is in of itself a presence in the story. Anyways, Mr. Dodd loves Godfrey and isn't that swell.

He probably could've just said "no, he's not dead," but he's a butler, so he might as well be all cryptic about it.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

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ooof have not ranted for awhile n so here we are🥴

so i have this one friend and i say we hit it right off and i can safely say shes one of my closest, dearest friends.

so yesterday, i finally went to uni just to do some paper work as i am applying for leave for a year, although i have 7 weeks left to graduate. but. anyway (thats for anothr time) so i know my friends would be there but at the same time i purposely didnt text them cuz i didnt feel liks seeing them when i feel shitty since i just got out of the hospital. so i rested alone in the comp. room and this friend found me (ha... so much for being sneaky). so in person, our convos are always light and shes such a nice person. we did some catching up with my other friends. the entire time i felt so guilty bcuz i didnt want to see them when i shouldve. shes v social and is friends w everybody. like she goes everwhere w anyone. all the time. and she posts her whereabouts like all the time. she has that personality everybody loves too.

but online, our friendship is so strained. like. theres this unresolved tension. she saw that i was sick in the hospital and she just ignored it. like any close person would wish you well right? and there was that time she cooked for her brother and it went burnt i think and i gave this 😂 emoji n she got sooo offended like i didnt mean it badly? she was like why are you laughing at my misery i put my effort in this and i said i didnt mean it in a bad way i thought it was cute. so back to the story, we took pics and i thought she was gonna post it on ig since she does that w like all her friends, but esp. since we havent seen eachother for months but with me she didnt? like i know this sounds loser of me but i waited for her to post lol but since she didnt i did since her and my other friends mean alot to me. and i captioned it with "❤hehe rindu ❤" (i miss u basically). ALL my other 3 friends present literally either reposted it or like replied to it and this friend didnt. she only viewed my story like past midnight when i posted it this morning (shes always on ig btw) and she didnt react to it and posted HER OTHER friends instead so i feel offended?? like seriously??? we have SO many mutuals so if they see that she didnt repost or say anythijg about it then surely it looks one sided?