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No matter the adaptation

His gay ass never listens!!!

He’s upgraded from crawling on the floor to climbing walls

The Naval Treaty

“Holmes sat silently, with his head thrown back and his eyes closed, in an attitude which might seem listless to a stranger, but which I knew betokened the most intense self-absorption.”

The Cardboard Box

“As a medical man, you are aware, Watson, that there is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear. Each ear is as a rule quite distinctive, and differs from all other ones. In last year’s Anthropological Journal you will find two short monographs from my pen upon the subject.”

Holmes' two short monographs, like many of his other works, have yet to surface. But at the end of 1893, only a few months before his return from the dead, there appeared in The Strand Magazine a suspiciously anonymous essay on the subject, split over two issues. Titled "A Chapter on Ears" and starting with the immortal words “It is sad to contemplate our lack of literature on ears,” the first instalment was published right before "The Naval Treaty" and was profusely illustrated with dozens of famous ears.

“He felt there were sides of her character which he could never explore or understand” - This is describing Robert Ferguson (the client) and his wife.

On the next page, we discover that Watson had, in fact, been a rugby player back in the day. Holmes’ response is this: “Holmes looked at me thoughtfully and shook his head. ‘I never get your limits, Watson.’ Said he. ‘There are unexplored possibilities about you.’”

I find this an interesting parallel between Mr and Mrs Ferguson and Holmes and Watson.

Mr Ferguson feels that his wife is too different from him, and there are too many things about her that he doesn’t know and has given up on trying to know, which drives a wedge between them.

Meanwhile, Holmes here realizes that there are sides to Watson that he’s yet to see, but he’s curious and delighted to discover new things about him.