"The [vitruvian man] drawing itself is often used as an implied symbol of the essential symmetry of..."

“The [vitruvian man] drawing itself is often used as an implied symbol of the essential symmetry of the human body, and by extension, of the universe as a whole. He believed the workings of the human body to be an analogy for the workings of the universe.”

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) (Sherlock considers John’s body to be perfectly symmetrical and to be the workings of the entire universe. Do you realize how beautiful this is and how it goes perfectly with his “

beautiful isn’t it? doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate it

” comments. He finds John’s body to be beautiful, symmetrical, ideal. He can’t have it but he can appreciate and admire it. John assumes he doesn’t care but he does,

so much

and in secret.)

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Yet another example of how John’s repressed emotions wrongly colour his views of not only himself but everyone around him. I love John - beautiful, dense, caring, confused, emotionally constipated John - but he cannot see either himself OR Sherlock clearly. Because YES. Sherlock cares so, so much and would - and has done - absolutely everything for John, to the extent of willingly giving up his own life and freedom for him. And John just doesn’t get it.