Sherlock Holmes | Une fleur entre deux abîmes

[eponymous_rose]

Title: Une fleur entre deux abîmes
Author: eponymous_rose
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Characters: John and Mary Watson
Author's Note: If you get the reference in the title, you get a gold star. A very happy birthday to our favourite sleuth!


“Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence,” he had said, “seems to me to rest in the flowers.”

At the time, I had been bemused by this new facet to his character, but in the years after the Falls, I came to realise that this delicate specificity of his impassioned speech was merely another facet of the sparkling gemstone of his intellect. The rose was only a puzzle that teased his faculties, that drew out his natural curiosity.

“John?” Mary smiled, took my hand in hers.

“We have much to hope from the flowers,” I said, and she understood.

Comments

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

delicate specificity of his impassioned speech

Lovely bit of Holmes characterization.

(Also, hee! Gratuitious Beethoven reference that doubles as horrendous and yet dramatically suitable pun = FTW!)

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

Gratuitious Beethoven reference that doubles as horrendous and yet dramatically suitable pun = FTW!

*cackles* I knew you'd get that one!

[infiniteviking]

*begins to catch up on reading* XD

..That's lovely. The world needs more Watson stories set in this period.

*wondering what, in fact, the title does mean*

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

*wondering what, in fact, the title does mean*

Ooh, right! It means, very loosely translated: "A flower between two abysses", and it's a comment that Liszt made about the second movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. I'm a terrible music nerd on top of everything else. ;)

[infiniteviking]

Ooh, that's neat! ^_^