A Study in Observation

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Author: capt_facepalm (who stole most of this directly from SCAN)
Rating: PG
Fandom:  Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters:  Sherlock Holmes, Dr John H. Watson
Summary:  Remember the July writing prompts? Remember the one where the point is to change a pivotal plot point?
Warnings:  (not necessarily pivotal, and dialogue)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes:  This popped out when I was supposed to be writing something else... many something elses. This may also be read with BBC Sherlock goggles.

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“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.”
 
“Frequently.”
 
“How often?”
 
“Well, some hundreds of times.”
 
“Then how many are there?”
 
“How many? I don’t know.”
 
“Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because... What is it, Doctor? Why are you sniggering?"
 
“There are eighteen steps.”
 
“Impossible! You just said…”
 
“Or perhaps sixteen. Trust me, my friend, a limping man knows even numbers.”

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Comments

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
Now, it is the duty of every fan-ficcer and pasticheo to return to their archives and amend as follows: seventeen eighteen
(Because we are all guilty, at one time or another, of quoting this number just to impress people with our awesome canon skillz.)

[morganstuart.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha!

So true.