I don’t even think ACD understood that when he wrote them - that it’s not just about the mysteries and the adventures, it’s about this guy who’s incredibly brilliant and a bit mad and damn near impossible to be around, and he’s probably already resigned himself to living alone and never meeting anyone who will understand him, and here comes this wounded army doctor with no real family to speak of, and very few friends, and for lack of anyone else they decide to flatshare, and it turns out to be the most significant relationship that either of them have for the rest of their lives.
(Yes, I know that was the longest run-on sentence in written history. It was intentional. Just go with it.)
Going with it and re-blogging again :)
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