Sherlock really can be everything, everyone, and everywhere. Doyle’s detective may have been a white male with Victorian sensibilities, but Sherlock’s key traits-curiosity, brilliance, arrogance-are universal. Sherlock, that diviner of truth, is timeless, too. We’ve been yearning for truth, for reason, for an explanation for as long as humans have existed. That need to make sense of things-to find truth in all quests-is timeless. The Tea Master and the Detective, by Aliette de Bodard But in the smallest of spheres it’s sometimes possible to straighten things out to make it seem as though everything means something.” None of it will make sense until he explains the proceedings to you (and to Watson), and then everything will become clear all at once. For me, Sherlock’s certainty is seductive. ![]() ![]() I’m someone who, like many before her, fell in love with Holmes, Watson, and 221B from the moment I opened A Study in Scarlet nearly a decade ago.
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