Wow, that is an incredibly powerful set of anecdotes, and I wish when I'd visited the SH Museum I'd been slightly older to appreciate it. (I already liked Holmes, as the original stories were some of the things my dad gave me to read as a kid, but I was ten and more interested in seeing palaces and Oxford University and doing my "mind the gap" Tube voice impression.) Sherlock Holmes is a kind of a superhero, and believing that pure reason and justice-minded tenacity can rein in chaos in the world is as idealistically important to many people as believing that personal pain could drive someone to become a caped crusader, I think.
It's also interesting how many multifarious ways people get into Sherlock Holmes, and how it influences how they perceive the character and what they get out of the character: people who start on one adaptation or story or narrative or another hear a different voice each, I think.
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Date: 2011-07-25 02:18 am (UTC)It's also interesting how many multifarious ways people get into Sherlock Holmes, and how it influences how they perceive the character and what they get out of the character: people who start on one adaptation or story or narrative or another hear a different voice each, I think.