Ciaccona

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Title:  Ciaccona
Author: capt_facepalm
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?

.oOOo.

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Comments

[maestress83.livejournal.com]

The conductor of light shouldn't sell himself so short!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

The conductor of light is realistic and modest about his limits. He must have had a hard day and has returned to Baker Street in an introspective mood.