ILU, OED

[elaby]

I love you, Oxford English Dictionary!

I'm so lucky my wife works at a University and can get me into the OED online. It's so incredibly useful. I'm working on some annotations for janeturenne's Slasher's Annotated Sherlock Holmes, which is already so darn awesome. I'm doing "The Six Napoleons," and I'm LOVING IT, I tell you. Can I be a professional fan? This is why I went into English Lit in school, by the way, because what I do for fun is try to figure out why such-and-such fictitious character used this phrase instead of that one.

Poor Mr. Rochester never gets his icon used *uses it*

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_melisande_/]

You really should write a Sherlock Holmes Companion, and you could get it published and I could buy it and be happy because I love companion books.

*waves to Mr. Rochester*

[elaby.livejournal.com]

That would be the funnest thing EVER. It's really too bad that I didn't discover this obsession in grad school, because I could have written all of my papers about Sherlock Holmes XD

I think Mr. Rochester appreciates the attention :)