perevision

Had a great time over at lyrakristine's house; she's in town with her whole family, whom I'm quite close to. So nice to spend time with all of them again. It really only needed angelthorn to make things perfect; in fact if A had been there I think we might actually have got round to Ly teaching me how to sew. Next time, I swear.

Got back home and am having a lazy day reading instead of painting or anything productive. Picked up Volume 1 of the Complete Novels and Stories of Sherlock Holmes at Fully Booked some days ago and just finished The Sign of Four.

( thoughts on ACD, gender and race, historical notes, and tragic conclusions )

The really sad bit is the last line of the story. Watson says, 'You have done all the work in the business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?'

I was expecting Holmes to say something pithy about the work being its own reward, but I got this:

'For me,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'there still remains the cocaine-bottle.' And he stretched his long white hand up for it.

No wonder all the ACD canon fic is choked with angst. Damn.

Research on Dick and Babs' preferred method of fighting, Escrima. I can't believe it took me forever to realise that Escrima was just another word for the Filipino martial art arnis, which I've basically seen all my life.



What I want to know is, who taught them? Toon!Dick gets a training sequence in Batman Adventures: The Lost Years explaining his fighting style. Would love to do the same thing with escrima. Arnold Arre has a great scene in Mythology Class, but it didn't quite capture the speed and energy the way I wanted. Fell in love with the almost zoetropic/Duchamp-esque style Ariyoshi Kyoko employed with ballet in Swan; the problem is that I am no Ariyoshi Kyoko.