sketchbook: the empty house part 3
what I can tell you about this update is that it is 100% canon, even the poetry bit
"I moved my head to look at the cabinet behind me. When I turned again Sherlock Holmes was standing smiling at me across my study table. I rose to my feet, stared at him for some seconds in utter amazement, and then it appears that I must have fainted for the first and the last time in my life. Certainly a grey mist swirled before my eyes, and when it cleared I found my collar-ends undone and the tingling after-taste of brandy upon my lips. Holmes was bending over my chair, his flask in his hand. “My dear Watson,” said the well-remembered voice, “I owe you a thousand apologies."
wait ok i know you said this was all canon but did holmes really present watson with a book of erotic bisexual poems and then whip off a disguise 😭 that is insane these bitches gay
Obviously a man as erudite as Holmes would know that pouring liquid into an unconscious person's mouth with the assumption they would swallow rather than breath it is foolhardy. Far more practical, even necessary, is the direct application and agitation of the liquid with one's own mouth and tongue so it can be absorbed by the oral mucosa and trigger reflexive swallowing! *said far too quickly and at a higher register than called for*