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The Hound of the Baskervilles will introduce him to the elemental struggle between the forces of darkness on the one hand and Victorian pragmatism and bluff heroics on the other.
Also seen in H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds"
at the height of the Ku Klux Klan’s power in the 1920s it was fashionable to indict Holmes’s opposition to the secret organization in “The Five Orange Pips.”
Holmes’s cocaine dependency. In his objection to this habit Watson was ahead of his time,
More than twenty thousand Strand readers canceled their subscriptions immediately, and young men and women appeared on the streets in, respectively, black armbands and veils. They were in mourning, not for the demise of a popular serial character, but for the collapse of a dam of justice and reason in a rising tide of incompetence and evil.
“I am glad to stretch myself, Watson,” said he. “It is no joke when a tall man has to take a foot off his stature for several hours on end.
Clark Kent knows your pain. He is forced to be his own Watson.
In your picturesque account of the matter, which I read with great interest some months later, you assert that the wall was sheer. That was not literally true. A few small footholds presented themselves, and there was some indication of a ledge.
retconning 101
There I was stretched, when you, my dear Watson, and all your following were investigating in the most sympathetic and inefficient manner the circumstances of my death. “At last, when you had all formed your inevitable and totally erroneous conclusions,
Humility still intact
