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capt_facepalmTitle: Ciaccona
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Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Dr John H. Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes (mentioned)
Summary: Music appreciation
Warnings: (cliché, schmoop, ack!)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 10th prompt: (J.S. Bach, Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004)
Dr John Watson wistfully resigned himself to the certainty that he was not an artistic man. If he lived a hundred years, even with the greatest aspirations, he would never produce anything as exquisite as the music flowing so casually from his fellow lodger’s violin. Yes, Watson wrote well enough, but he considered his work to be journeyman-like at best. And yet he was not jealous. The moon cannot view the sun with envy when its own light depends on borrowed brilliance. For if the sun were to quit the celestial sphere, what luminosity would there be left to reflect?
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capt_facepalmRating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Dr John H. Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes (mentioned)
Summary: Music appreciation
Warnings: (cliché, schmoop, ack!)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 10th prompt: (J.S. Bach, Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004)
Dr John Watson wistfully resigned himself to the certainty that he was not an artistic man. If he lived a hundred years, even with the greatest aspirations, he would never produce anything as exquisite as the music flowing so casually from his fellow lodger’s violin. Yes, Watson wrote well enough, but he considered his work to be journeyman-like at best. And yet he was not jealous. The moon cannot view the sun with envy when its own light depends on borrowed brilliance. For if the sun were to quit the celestial sphere, what luminosity would there be left to reflect?
.oOOo.
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Date: 2013-07-14 11:15 am (UTC)Usually, when I strain to write something more serious, the cracky squirrel who lives in my brain rebels. This time it leaked into the warning.
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Date: 2013-07-10 09:58 pm (UTC)I've resigned myself to that on more than one occasion while looking at art and listening to music. Because of that I so appreciate Watson's outlook on the situation. Beautiful.
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Date: 2013-07-14 11:08 am (UTC)I did not have to travel far in my mind to find the inspiration for these thoughts. Luckily, Watson does not spend time bemoaning his limits, nor does he begrudge his friend his abilities. Watson is wise enough to realise that it is better to delight in Holmes' talents, because he would otherwise be bereft without him.
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Date: 2013-07-14 11:10 am (UTC)And don't worry about Watson. He is more wistful than sad.
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Date: 2013-07-14 10:58 am (UTC)(I also have a strange fondness for the proper use of the double negative.)
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