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“John knows the exact heft of a Browning L9A1,how to make an appearance after a bomb has gone off, how to track a dog. John knows how to re-start a heart.“
Death is boring.
Sherlock considers the depth of John’s knowledge.
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- Part 1 of Compounds or Stars
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“He doesn't like to use the word, except when it's other people.”
“I love the smell of crime scene in the morning. I love breathing.”
Sherlock considers the nature of…
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- Part 2 of Compounds or Stars
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“Maybe Sherlock appears, keyless, at Baker Street with a book, a gun, a torch and an olive branch.”
“Maybe he burns up on re-entry, or shatters on impact, and John builds him up out of fragments and ash--after all, he’s only returning the favor.”
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- Part 3 of Compounds or Stars
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"Gaze streetward, forearms contracted, Sherlock hasn’t moved for more than an hour: The upper end of the ulna is shaped like a crescent. There are star-shaped pigment cells in the human eye."
"Oh, for the dead reckoning he learnt as a child."
221B is a two-body problem.
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- Part 4 of Compounds or Stars
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"He’s never eaten dinner, not in the way she means."
“'John,' he says, because he may not recognize hunger, but he knows sustenance when he sees it."
The mind-body problem is clearly not his area.
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- Part 5 of Compounds or Stars
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"'No really, don't. Don't even think once,'Sherlock is saying."
"Grief runs along two tracks, the transcendent and the absurd."
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- Part 6 of Compounds or Stars
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"There's hell in high places. At first he could barely climb the stairs, but then he took them, all seventeen, at least two at a time."
Cast off the cane, and thank the Fates for second floors.
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- Part 7 of Compounds or Stars
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"The city’s slipped past: All the Londons, all the Sherlock-and-Johns, reflected in the train windows, washed in the fluorescence of the station."
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- Part 8 of Compounds or Stars
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“’Dead,’ Sherlock is saying, standing over a tableful of shining glassware. ‘Dead.’”
“He’s using his hands, outlining the beautiful, gleaming Erlenmeyer.”
A conversation about chemistry.
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- Part 9 of Compounds or Stars
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Love is the anticipation of forgiveness: But that’s only an aphorism.
When did John learn to forgive?
“It wasn’t when he broke and followed the long-legged, eminent stalk of the one he (came to love) up the stairs, onto the streets, and into the graveyard. Certainly not then.”
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- Part 10 of Compounds or Stars
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"John was eating some Chinese in Camden when a shadow fell over his chow mein.
'Mycroft' he said, without looking up."
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- Part 11 of Compounds or Stars
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"If you want peace, it's that direction; if you want deduction, if you want trouble,look no further."
“'Brilliant' is heavy. 'Gone' is light. But he’s never going to levitate like that."
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- Part 12 of Compounds or Stars
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"There are other beds in other rooms, in other cities, beds for the living and beds for the dead."
"What we know is not elusive, John, no matter what the philosophers say. What we feel is elusive, and therefore, sleep."
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- Part 13 of Compounds or Stars
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"If they want a storm then, it’s not a problem..He can give them the right hand of the storm, the hook echo, the head of the comma, the glorious calm of the central eye: that’s what they were."
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- Part 14 of Compounds or Stars
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“Are you going to sleep here, then? “ John says, leaning on his arms. Bart’s glowers and hums around them, in the lab where they met, the lab where they’ll part. “Shall I make you up a bed?”
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- Part 15 of Compounds or Stars
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"When Sherlock comes back from the dead, he comes back dead. Or that’s what John thinks at first.
...and then the violets come in at the house across the street."
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- Part 16 of Compounds or Stars
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"Mercy is not at all the same thing as pity, his least favorite lens, the one Donovan looked at him through at a crime scene in Brixton, the very first."
We think we can't have both, but we can.
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- Part 17 of Compounds or Stars
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"He’s dreamed Sherlock back at their breakfast table, where they might catch up...
I don’t like the present, he thinks.
Well it will be the past soon enough, John. Do be patient."
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- Part 18 of Compounds or Stars
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"It's late; where's John? Gone out, she says...
Sherlock: a wasp (hymenoptera, suborder apocrita) struggling in sap. That’s how it is when he can’t think, slowed (100-million-year-old proto-bee; discovered not long ago in Burma) by a humid slice of the Cretaceous."
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- Part 19 of Compounds or Stars
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There’s blood, a fresh welling. It’s a six-patch problem.
Fuck alleles, then; what they had was blood.
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- Part 20 of Compounds or Stars
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"The ones they don't solve pile up, which means *they* pile up, pile on, corded one against the other no matter where they might be standing...
'Don't tell them about the unsolved ones,' Sherlock says."
They were born for they signify.
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- Part 21 of Compounds or Stars
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“The city 's gone off in bells, in bells, the districts all afire --Shoreditch and Stepford and Bailey and Bow--the districts all aflame.”
If convenient, come; if not your division, come anyway: your city’s ablaze.
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- Part 22 of Compounds or Stars
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“You could get a storm up in those—or just the eye of it, gifted as you are.”
"There’s no real blue in blue: An absence of melanocytes, a scattering of light through humour; all structural, a trick of light, as notes, as genes: bb, Bb."
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- Part 23 of Compounds or Stars
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A story, John.
A story? There are a lot of those.
The city's crime goes spine-to-spine with spring.
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- Part 24 of Compounds or Stars
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““Here if you need me,” John says, (weary, redundant, because I love you, you stupid, stupid bastard; it hardly needs saying).
Well. It’s not the first time John’s made him call to mind the first law of thermodynamics (continual presence, of mass, of energy, of closed systems), and it will hardly be the last.”
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- Part 25 of Compounds or Stars