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Stockbroker's Clerk - Discussion Post

Jan 31, 2011 18:11

My apologies for the lack of read-along post this past week; there were some last minute travel shenanigans on my end that just threw everything haywire.

This week, we once again have a very strange situation dealing with employment, Holmes and Watson go for a job interview, and we get the strange sensation we've seen this con before.

DISCUSS.

( I'm afraid I rather give myself away when I explain. )

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petronia February 1 2011, 02:36:36 UTC

I found while reading this that I started to translate the clerk's talk into a modern equivalent in my head.

queerlyobscure February 1 2011, 03:11:35 UTC

1. Going to agree with the 'unthrilled' sentiment. There were a couple of nice bits in there, but it was mostly kind of... booooring.

2. You're not suggesting that the writing has taken a nosedive towards the hackneyed? Thus setting the bar for every mystery writer since?

3. I... genuinely can't tell. I can't tell a whole lot about this story, actually.

4. I think that Doyle was desperately trying to separate Watson (and himself by extension) from the lower classes. Historically, he was part of an odd class that falls between the peasants and the nobility, and that not being a weird place to be in society is a pretty new thing. So he was more inclined to make a solid distinction between the middle class and the 'working' class, especially since a doctor is still a tradesman with a more expensive education.

Err. I have Thoughts on all this, obviously, but I'll spare everyone the expository essay.

5. I think there's an answer to this in the text:

SHORTLY after my marriage

and For three months after taking over the practice I was ( ... )

alexcat February 1 2011, 16:44:18 UTC

1. I actually thought I was rereading one for a second... NO, it wasn't thrilling.

2. Well, since the story was a rather rehash of another,,, there were several. I did rather like the young man though. This seemed a bit... well, it seemed as though it was hacked out for a deadline.

3. Maybe... maybe not. I guess I wasn't paying enough attention.

4. He seemed to almost think that that Pycroft was reaching a little higher than his class... mentioning how the 'cockneys' were good tradesmen and athletes. it sort of sounded like how Americans have spoken of races other than white at times in our own history.

5. Sherlock was peeved that between Watson being married and playing at being a doctor, he never got to see him!