{"id":94866,"date":"2016-06-28T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T16:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/28\/its-never-1895\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T16:19:13","slug":"its-never-1895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/28\/its-never-1895\/","title":{"rendered":"IT\u2019S NEVER 1895.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/yearofjohnlock.tumblr.com\/post\/146442667519\" target=\"_blank\">yearofjohnlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/yearofjohnlock.tumblr.com\/post\/146441741934\" target=\"_blank\">yearofjohnlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>yknow\u2026.<\/h2>\n<h2>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/h2>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A Sherlock Holmes story was never published in the year 1895, but Arthur Conan Doyle <i>did<\/i> publish <i>The Stark Munro Letters<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readcentral.com\/chapters\/Arthur-Conan-Doyle\/The-Stark-Munro-Letters\/002\" target=\"_blank\">a wondrously gay<\/a> account of a genius from the viewpoint of a medical student (theorised to be autobiographical). He early on remarks on the genius\u2019s heroism for jumping 3 stories to save a friend\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>He lives with a little old lady who takes care of him though is sometimes stern and they live in a humble home \u201cover a grocer\u2019s shop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere<br \/>\nwere, I remember, only two chairs in the sitting-room;\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201che had been rash<br \/>\nin the use of powerful drugs\u201c<\/p>\n<p>and it goes on<\/p>\n<h2>\n<b>This is it. This is it. <\/b>Sherlock Holmes was a real man but by another name, and Arthur Conan Doyle was in love with him. <br \/><\/h2>\n<p><b>this is the \u2018ongoing theme\u2019.. the elephant in the room. Watson and Holmes literally confirmed. <br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<h2>\n<b>The med student in love with the genius.<\/b><br \/><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Letters<\/b>:\u00a0 \u201cWhen I woke next morning he was in<br \/>\nmy room, and a funny-looking object he was. \u00a0His<br \/>\ndressing-gown lay on a chair, and he was putting up<br \/>\na fifty-six pound dumb-bell, without a rag to cover<br \/>\nhim.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps there is another Cullingworth<br \/>\nbehind the scenes \u00ada softer, <i>tenderer<\/i><br \/>\nman, who can love and invite love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking forward<br \/>\nimmensely to seeing him again\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd yet you know<br \/>\nthe feeling that you get when a man smiles with his<br \/>\nlips and not with his eyes\u201c<\/p>\n<p><b>ACD on his letters<\/b>: \u201csome excisions are necessary;\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yearofjohnlock: yearofjohnlock: yknow\u2026. \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. \u2026 A Sherlock Holmes story was never published in the year 1895, but Arthur Conan Doyle did publish The Stark Munro Letters, a wondrously gay account of a genius from the viewpoint of a medical student (theorised to be autobiographical). He early on remarks on the genius\u2019s heroism for jumping 3 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/28\/its-never-1895\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IT\u2019S NEVER 1895..&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[922,15,11924,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}