Sherlock Holmes: Trifles

"all life is a great chain" [STUD]     Sherlock Holmes is "Pope's version of the ideal Man, the one who attains his greatest potential without vainly attempting to rise above it."    So says Anastasia Klimchynskaya, BSI ("An Old Russian Woman") in her thesis regarding Alexander Pope's four-epistle volume and the great detective, which appeared in the Winter 2013 issue of The Baker Street Journal under the title "A Study in Scarlet and the Study of Mankind: Sherlock Holmes and Pope's Essay on Man." She took home the Morley-Montgomery Award that year. And it's just a Trifle.      If you have a question for us, please email us at [email protected]. If you use your inquiry on the show, we'll send you a thank you gift.   Our Merch Store is open: Trifles mugs, notepads, and oval stickers can be yours (or someone else's, if you'd like to make it a gift). Start shopping today.    "Trifling Trifles" is short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode. In the latest, we discuss a curious lapse of Sherlock Holmes's memory around Sussex. Make sure you're signed up so you don't miss this is exclusive benefit for our paying subscribers.  Check it out (Patreon | Substack).     Leave Trifles a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; listen to this episode here or wherever you get podcasts     Links The Morley-Montgomery Award episode series (Patreon | Substack) All of our social links: https://linktr.ee/ihearofsherlock Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com    Music credits Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band. Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0      

"with many chuckles" [HOUN]     We typically don't guffaw ourselves through the Sherlock Holmes stories. They're not designed to bowl us over with amusement. Nor do we snicker, sneer, or chortle.    But there was a good deal of chuckling going on in the stories. And Sherlock Holmes was doing most of it. In what situations did Holmes chuckle and what does that tell us about his outlook? It's just a Trifle.      If you have a question for us, please email us at [email protected]. If you use your inquiry on the show, we'll send you a thank you gift.   Our Merch Store is open: Trifles mugs, notepads, and oval stickers can be yours (or someone else's, if you'd like to make it a gift). Start shopping today.    "Trifling Trifles" is short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode. How busy was Dr. Watson, in all reality?  Make sure you're signed up so you don't miss this is exclusive benefit for our paying subscribers.  Check it out (Patreon | Substack).     Leave Trifles a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; listen to this episode here or wherever you get podcasts   Download | 33.6 MB 37:33   Links Related episodes: Episode 259 - Did Sherlock Holmes Have a Sense of Humor? All of our social links: https://linktr.ee/ihearofsherlock Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com    Music credits Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band. Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0      

"I was well aware that the fiend was not dead, but sleeping" [MISS]       Sherlock Holmes infamously used cocaine. Indeed, his habit was such that Dr. Watson, both as a friend and a medical man, was concerned for his health. But addictions in the Canon go beyond that.    In this month's "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the Theorist" episode, we turn our attention to Baker Street Miscellanea No. 42 (Summer 1985) in which Robert S. Katz turned his own medical mind to the attention of Holmes's and Watson's addictions, and how they may have been inextricably linked. And it's just a Trifle.      If you have a question for us, please email us at [email protected]. If you use your inquiry on the show, we'll send you a thank you gift.   Our Merch Store is open: Trifles mugs, notepads, and oval stickers can be yours (or someone else's, if you'd like to make it a gift). Start shopping today.    "Trifling Trifles" is short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode. How busy was Dr. Watson, in all reality?  Make sure you're signed up so you don't miss this is exclusive benefit for our paying subscribers.  Check it out (Patreon | Substack).     Leave Trifles a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; listen to this episode here or wherever you get podcasts   Links Related episodes: Episode 84 - Inside 221B: The Morocco Case Episode 285 - Watson's Hidden Addiction Episode 431 - The Alleged Use of Cocaine by Sherlock Holmes All of our social links: https://linktr.ee/ihearofsherlock Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com    Music credits Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band. Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0        

"I keep a bull pup" [STUD]    Among all of the Canonical canines we run into — the spectral Hound, the inveterate Toby, both Carlos, the irascible and protective Roy — there is one that escapes our attention.     We of course refer to Watson's bull pup. But maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe — just maybe — it wasn't a dog at all. But what was it? Join us as we investigate the curious incident of the bull pup in the night-time. It's just a Trifle.      If you have a question for us, please email us at [email protected]. If you use your inquiry on the show, we'll send you a thank you gift.   Our Merch Store is open: Trifles mugs, notepads, and oval stickers can be yours (or someone else's, if you'd like to make it a gift). Take a look around.    "Trifling Trifles" is short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode. How busy was Dr. Watson, in all reality? Make sure you're signed up so you don't miss this is exclusive benefit for our paying subscribers.  Check it out (Patreon | Substack).     Leave Trifles a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; listen to this episode here or wherever you get podcasts     Links "The Bull Pup: Canine? Gun? Or Something Else?" by James O'Leary (I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere) All of our social links: https://linktr.ee/ihearofsherlock Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com    Music credits Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band. Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0      

"services which may perhaps some day be described" [3GAR]  In "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs," we're famously told that "Holmes refused a knighthood". Watson beguilingly only referred to it in passing, and we have no further information on the topic.     Peter Calamai, BSI ("The Leeds Mercury") developed a plausible theory that he put to the test in the Autumn 2012 issue of The Baker Street Journal  titled "Why He Isn't 'Sir Sherlock' Today." It garnered him the Morley-Montgomery Award that year. And it's just a Trifle.      If you have a question for us, please email us at [email protected]. If you use your inquiry on the show, we'll send you a thank you gift.   Our Merch Store is open: Trifles mugs, notepads, and oval stickers can be yours (or someone else's, if you'd like to make it a gift). Start shopping today.    "Trifling Trifles" is back — short-form content that doesn't warrant a full episode. How busy was Dr. Watson, in all reality? Make sure you're signed up so you don't miss this is exclusive benefit for our paying subscribers.  Check it out (Patreon | Substack).     Leave Trifles a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; listen to this episode here or wherever you get podcasts   Links Peter Calamai on Episode 121 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere The Morley-Montgomery Award episode series (Patreon | Substack) All of our social links: https://linktr.ee/ihearofsherlock Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com    Music credits Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band. Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0