http://w-a-i-d.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] w-a-i-d.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] waid 2010-06-11 08:56 pm (UTC)

Thank you! I'm thrilled you found it gripping enough to stay up reading it!

It's very flattering that it seems to fit the period and culture to you. I worried... God, my every other reply to comments seems to start with "I worried...!" I worried about their attitudes to various things (rape, specifically male rape, and homosexuality) seeming too modern. At least with Holmes you've got a character who swims against the flow of Victorian culture so much it's not that hard to imagine he might be at least somewhat ahead of his time, but then he's still got to be that in an of his time sort of way. And Watson's in a weird way almost more complicated, outwardly much more conventional, but a self-professed "bohemian" too who's evidently drawn to what's different, or he wouldn't eb so intrigued by Holmes and his cases.

In any case, the reason I can "speak Victorian" -- maybe not with a native accent, but fairly fluently -- is that I had an education in which literature stopped in approximately 1922. This has its drawbacks (at some point postmodernism happened?) but it has to be good for something!


Post a comment in response:

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting