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A Just Sense of Proportion by plumedy
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
27 Jun 2016
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Some facts should be suppressed, or at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
In a world where illusions are an accepted part of culture and social etiquette, Sherlock Holmes is the great unmasker. And John Watson is, as ever, a hopeless romantic.
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大家都会illusion的魔法AU，短探案。
"Would you know, my boy," he'd say, "half of that gentleman's hair only exists in his imagination. Notice how the wind doesn't ruffle it?""What a shame," I'd laugh, "because that is a remarkably tasteless hairstyle. I imagine he could do better with his own hair."
Some of his observations were very amusing; some – sad or even unsettling.
"That man isn't real," he once told me calmly. Incredulous, I looked at what appeared to me to be a perfectly normal elderly gentleman walking hand in hand with a young girl in a crumpled black dress. I spotted a couple of medals attached to the thick chequered fabric of his frock. His lips under the light ginger moustache curled in a sad half-smile.
"Come now, Holmes," said I, "surely-"
"Oh, the level of detail is admirable," he interrupted. "But look at him when she turns away. Why, he stops breathing."
I shuddered and averted my eyes involuntarily. It felt, for a moment, as though I were intruding upon something very personal.
Holmes laid a firm hand on my shoulder and we walked on.
"You'd be surprised how many people do this," he said gently. "And not all of these ghosts are those of the dead."
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