Utter Juvenilia

I've been listening to the "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" - audiobook - on my journeys to and from work as a result of my enjoying the BBC's new "Sherlock" series and wanting to get a grip on the source material.

Juvenile I know but I did chuckle at the following quote-mined comments:

In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment.

And..

I had hardly finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was putting in the horse.

And..

"In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been there, and I have taken it out"

I apologise, it is unworthy of me, but the three comments followed so closely together that I was unable to resist my juvenile mirth.

USS Serenity

 

To honour the Beard

 ( Behold )