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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

mydirtymouth: (Nervous) Smile Friday aka What’s the first step in getting ready to make some important life decisions? Caffeinate! 

mydirtymouth:

(Nervous) Smile Friday

aka What’s the first step in getting ready to make some important life decisions?

Caffeinate! 

tea-fiend: You know what you are? You’re a moustache with an idiot hanging off it. (Paget/Black Books)

tea-fiend:

You know what you are? You’re a moustache with an idiot hanging off it.

(Paget/Black Books)

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tea-fiend: The lazy man’s Reichenbach. (Paget/Black Books)

tea-fiend:

The lazy man’s Reichenbach.

(Paget/Black Books)

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tea-fiend: Understatement of the nineteenth century. (Paget/Blackadder)

tea-fiend:

Understatement of the nineteenth century.

(Paget/Blackadder)

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product-boredom: To Sherlock Homes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen…. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory. -The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) Dr. Watson in “A Scandal in Bohemia”

product-boredom:

To Sherlock Homes she is always the woman.

I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen…. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) Dr. Watson in “A Scandal in Bohemia”

darkest-alchemy: This episode fills me with conflict (as did the original story, but not so much), but let’s not go into that here; just have a cap of Holmes with a pipe instead.(From The Dying Detective)

darkest-alchemy:

This episode fills me with conflict (as did the original story, but not so much), but let’s not go into that here; just have a cap of Holmes with a pipe instead.

(From The Dying Detective)

"You really are an automaton - a calculating machine,” I cried. “There is something positively inhuman in you at times."

—

Watson about Holmes.

The Sign Of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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"

Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver.

S. H.

"

—

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Mortimer: You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I’d hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull, or such well-marked supraorbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?Holmes: [sounding scandalized] Please! Dr. Mortimer!Mortimer: A cast of your skull then, until the original becomes available.Holmes: [laughs heartily]Mortimer: It is not my intention to be fulsome but I confess, I covet your skull.Holmes: [grinning] Behave and sit down, Dr. Mortimer.

Mortimer: You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I’d hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull, or such well-marked supraorbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?
Holmes: [sounding scandalized] Please! Dr. Mortimer!
Mortimer: A cast of your skull then, until the original becomes available.
Holmes: [laughs heartily]
Mortimer: It is not my intention to be fulsome but I confess, I covet your skull.
Holmes: [grinning] Behave and sit down, Dr. Mortimer.

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earwigbiscuits: Ready for a skate (“Copyrighted 1912 Athletic Knitting Co. Utica, N.Y.”)

earwigbiscuits:

Ready for a skate (“Copyrighted 1912 Athletic Knitting Co. Utica, N.Y.”)