{"id":98741,"date":"2016-06-01T12:21:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T12:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/01\/dr-watson-doesnt-write-to-you-he-talks-to-you\/"},"modified":"2016-06-01T12:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T12:21:04","slug":"dr-watson-doesnt-write-to-you-he-talks-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/01\/dr-watson-doesnt-write-to-you-he-talks-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Watson doesn\u2019t write to you, he talks<\/i> to you, with Edwardian courtesy, across a glowing fire. <\/p>\n

His voice has no barriers or affectations. It is clear, energetic and decent, the voice of a tweedy, no-nonsense colonial Britisher at ease with himself. Its owner is traveled. He has knocked about, as they say, browned his knees. Yet he remains an innocent abroad. <\/p>\n

He is a first-class chap, loyal to a fault, brave as a lion, and the salt of the earth. All the cliches fit him. But he is not a cliche.<\/p>\n

Finer feelings confuse Dr. Watson. He is a stranger to art. Yet, like his creator, he is one of the greatest storytellers the world has ever listened to. <\/p>\n

On the rare occasions he leaves the stage to Holmes, we long for him to return. <\/p>\n

Holmes \u2013 mercurial, brilliant, complex, turbulent Holmes \u2013 is not safe out there alone. <\/p>\n

Oh, he manages. He can dissemble, go underground, disguise himself to the point where his own mother wouldn\u2019t know him, he can act dead or dying, trawl opium dens, wrestle with Moriarty on a cliff\u2019s edge, or dupe the Kaiser\u2019s spy. <\/p>\n

But none of that changes the fact that when he is alone, he is only half the fellow he becomes the moment faithful Watson takes back the tale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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John le Carr\u00e9<\/a>, <\/strong>one of Mark Gatiss\u2019 favorite writers. [x<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

(From le Carre\u2019s foreword to The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes 150th Anniversary Edition of collected short stories<\/a>. [x<\/a><\/strong>])<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

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Dr. Watson doesn\u2019t write to you, he talks to you, with Edwardian courtesy, across a glowing fire. His voice has no barriers or affectations. It is clear, energetic and decent, the voice of a tweedy, no-nonsense colonial Britisher at ease with himself. Its owner is traveled. He has knocked about, as they say, browned his … <\/p>\n

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