sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-05-17 02:24 pm

The blue, blue water, the bone-white sky

I have been re-reading my ancestral (i.e., my mother's hardcover) copy of The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes (1978), which made it a very nice thing at the end of a semi-rough day when this episode mysteriously fell off the back of a hansom. I have loved Jeremy Brett and David Burke since childhood, but having recently been discussing various unsatisfactory versions of Irene Adler with [personal profile] skygiants and [personal profile] genarti, I was refreshingly impressed by the immediate intelligence—and faithfully portrayed opera!—of Gayle Hunnicutt. The predictable result is that now I want to rewatch both the Granada Sherlock Holmes (1984–94) and The Legend of Hell House (1973). Have a couple of links.

1. Courtesy of [personal profile] spatch: sunbathing mermaids, with duck.

2. Courtesy of [personal profile] moon_custafer: mildly Talmudic Batman meta.

3. Courtesy of [personal profile] handful_ofdust: "my mom's childhood town."

I have not attended High Holidays services in years, but I really don't appreciate dreaming that I was told by a synagogue that I couldn't enter because I'd once been sick. That is not how either science or Judaism works. It is, however, a fascinatingly obvious anxiety dream.
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2020-05-17 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You can't beat a good re-read of Holmes!