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Hieronymous Alloy posted:One interesting aspect to Watson is that he's a bit of a self-insert for Doyle: like Watson, Doyle was a pensioned off Army doctor who had served in Afghanistan. Oddly, most film versions have carried this a bit forward -- the conventional film versions of Watson all look a bit like Doyle, squat suited men with bowler hats and a brushy mustache. Watson also serves a bit as a stand-in for the reader, trying to figure the problem out on their own and not quite getting there. Which gives us the bitter irony in the BBC adaption; in it Martin Freeman's Watson is also an army doctor wounded in Afghanistan - because the West won't leave that poor country alone.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Anyway, Need Suggestions for Next Month! Yann Martel's The High Mountains of Portugal ! I found it to be wonderfully surreal, brilliantly imaginative, and deeply insightful.
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