Sherlock S. Holmes (sherlockholmes) wrote in thedoorway, @ 2013-08-20 19:21:00 |
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Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo.
That's Ovid. It means "A drop carves the rock, not by force but by persistence." and it is also the motto of the ASH -- The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes who have been so kind as to extend a dinner invitation to me for tonight. This is their seventeenth invitation. The rock has been carved.
They are one of New York's first Sherlock Holmes society and composed (originally) only of women and founded by Principal Unprincipled Adventuress Evelyn Herzog -- because London's Baker Street Irregulars would not allow female members (and Boston's Speckled Band still doesn't). It feels a bit awkward, walking into a fan club for me that's been around since before I was born.
There's also a bit of a "said the spider to the fly" about all of this. But... I have a harem of adventuresses. Far be it from me to disappoint them.