Comment on Intemperance

  1. seperis Wed 15 Sep 2010 02:54AM UTC

    So I think, similarly, Watson doesn't really *get it* in a full PhD in Queer Studies way, but he loves his friend and he's willing to just take it in and try and fail and try again. (Much like I'm doing in my white, cisgender, able-bodied way.)

    I think that was one of my favorite things about Watson. He didn't understand--and in that time period, he probably couldn't with his mental and social framework--but he accepted that he didn't (and probably couldn't) and just took it as another part of Holmes and resigned himself to learning and stumbling.

    Though I may never get over Holmes' self-surgery. God.

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    1. Basingstoke Thu 16 Sep 2010 05:08AM UTC

      Basingstoke - Crazy Eyes

      If it helps, he was using novocaine. That's one of the cocaine derivatives mentioned in the story. Didn't feel a thing.

      SAW an eyeful, though, but that was an obscene thrill; he's fascinated by the inner structures of the body. Especially his own.

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