221b - reading Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(comments later. now this cute little poem; Sherlock Holmes (R) and Dr. Watson (L), drawn by Sidney Paget)

221b

by Vincent Starrett

here dwell together still two men of note
who never lived and so can never die:
how very near they seem, yet how remote
that age before the world went all awry...
here, though the world explod, these two
survive, and it is always enghteen ninety-five.

and how can one not love these two dudes, their singular (an often used word in the stories) friendship, their most absurd adventures and their all eccentric neighbors in the great city of London. what fun. :-)