The Good Book

[capt_facepalm]

Title: The Good Book
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Dr Watson, M.D., Mr Sherlock Holmes
Summary: A Baker Street vignette
Warning: (Sacrilege)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 4th 2019 prompt: Include a favorite book or work of literature in your entry.

.oOOo.

Sherlock Holmes, rejuvenated at long last by finally getting a full night’s sleep joined me at the breakfast table.

‘Good morning, Watson,’ he chirped with the cheeriness usually reserved for the denouements of particularly problematic cases.

‘You slept well, I take it?’

‘Splendidly! Thank you for your recommendation. A good book was just the ticket.’

I scanned my bookshelf and, finding no gap, asked, ‘Which one did you choose?’

‘The one on your nightstand. You were sleeping. I didn’t think you would mind-’

The sneaky devil had lifted my Bible!

‘-Made it to Chapter Five… all those begattings. So soporific.’

.oOOo.

Please sign the guestbook

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Supplementary Notes: Holmes' views do not necessarily reflect my own.

Comments

[thesadchicken]

Each entry more clever than the last! Listen, I adore this ~

[capt_facepalm]

You are very kind, thank you! I have been so busy with other RL obligations that I am writing my entries based on the first thing that comes to my mind. (For better, or for worse.)

[thesadchicken]

You're doing a great job at it!
And I understand, it's the same for me :(

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ha, ha! This is brilliant!

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! It was the first thought that came to mind when I first read the prompt.

[smallhobbit]

Very true!

[capt_facepalm]

It's been a while for me, but I remember that part as being a bit much.

[mafief]

Agreed, and Leviticus usually gets me. So I skip to the end. ;)

[capt_facepalm]

That's a good strategy.
Thanks!

[mightymads]

Hmmm, and I was about to suspect there was something unusual about Watson’s bible. On the other hand, if there was, Holmes’s curiosity would have been piqued, and that’s not a soporific effort.

[capt_facepalm]

That's a good point too!
Thanks!

[debriswoman]

:-)

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks, Mrs P!

[gardnerhill]

Be fair, the "begat" stuff in the Bible is as soporific as the lists of how many jars of oil and measures of barley are owed for various crimes in the Code of Hammurabi.

[capt_facepalm]

Stunning stuff, but nothing compares to the Domesday Book (in the original Mediæval Latin manuscript form, of course).

[gardnerhill]

"We gotta cancel, half the book club just died of boredom."

[caffienekitty]

Heeeeee!

[capt_facepalm]

Hahaha!
Thanks!

[monkeybard]

*snort* BWAHAHAHAHAHA! :-D

[capt_facepalm]

Glad to be of service!