| Yeah, I was a bit surprised to come home and find he'd sprouted wings...And he really doesn't like them, I don't think..! He's grumbling about how he said that he wasn't an angel, and now he has great big wings sprouting out of his back. And they've made a hole in his coat. And shirt. And Mycroft isn't being very kind about how he looks with wings. -_-" |
Sherlock Holmes: The Ever Evolving IconWhat is it about a fictional character first introduced to the public in Great Britain in 1887 that has kept him being reincarnated, with generationally-correct upgrades, over and over again in film and on television? Who is this literary hero whose portrayal over the past century by such past masters as Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett to today’s vanguard talents Robert Downey, Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch has inspired such a continuing outpouring of fan appreciation?Sherlock Holmes: The Ever Evolving Icon by $techgnotic
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by $techgnotic
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 7:20 PM
What is it about a fictional character first introduced to the public in Great Britain in 1887 that has kept him being reincarnated, with generationally-correct upgrades, over and over again in film and on television? Who is this literary hero whose portrayal
The FallHe fell like Icarus in fateful flightThe Fall by =littlemousemolly
Whose bronze wings came apart in sun's cruel glare
Plummeting down amid day's golden light
To oceans of unyielding concrete, there
Neither god nor angel did lose his life
Nor hero, by his own insistence be
Merely a man whose brand of justice strifed
With the devil's servant - Moriarty.
To save the only three that man had loved
He took a leap of faith, his life to end
He walked off St. Bart's roof, so high above
To save the only man that he called friend
As though pushed by sentiment's lightest touch
He fell like a man who had loved too much
), will get creepily nuts about it. Seriously.
Stunned 
Sta.sh
Hope all is well!
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