Sherlock Holmes (ex_sherlockh648) wrote in voicesinmyhead, @ 2007-07-29 23:35:00 |
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Entry tags: | prompt #03, sherlock holmes |
Prompt #3: What are your thoughts on love?
Ha! A most superfluous question, for as my good friend Watson has stated, I do not speak often of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. Romance is the folly of other men, the source of many a woman's grief, and the motivation for those less scrupulous who prey on the innocent.
Rumour has reached my ears that many a reader has erroneously fallen into the belief that somehow the late Irene Adler, the renowned contralto who had nearly compromised the King of Bohemia, had captured my heart. I have even heard that Mrs. Norton (as she was later known) and I had clandestinely married during my "missing" years after my supposed death at Reichenbach Falls. Ho! What a hearty laugh that one was!
Surely, I don't need to reiterate to an observant man that I was an unwitting witness to the wedded vows between Miss Irene Adler and her fiancé Mr. Godfrey Norton, a lawyer. Might I also rekindle the grey matter with the information that she and her newlywed husband departed swiftly from England's shores as soon as she realized her attempts at blackmail were futile. Why, then, would dear Watson's readers long to see this woman and myself in such a compromise?
Perhaps those good readers misinterpreted my request for her photograph as my payment for services rendered. I keep reminders all around me in regards to the deviant and criminal mind. As many of Watson's writings have alluded, I am not infallible. The "Scandal in Bohemia" case taught me never to take anything or anyone for granted—especially a woman.
Thus you can see why the emotion of love would indeed be a dangerous one for me. I cannot endanger myself with such peril whilst I am on a case. How easily could my position be inverted from pursuer into pursued were I to have some chink in my armour so easily exposed.
No, when it comes to love, it is best not to be thought of at all.
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