It baffles me that Watson isn't forced to spend half his chronicling time detailing most all of London (male and female)hitting on the pair of eligible usually-bachelors up at 221B.
*cracks up* And there's remarkably little of that, even! It really is surprising. I feel like sometimes Watson (or ACD, whichever you prefer) writes things in a certain way sometimes to be like "Oh yeah, women! I forgot! I notice women! See how I notice women?"
the whole point of the workhouses, which were supposed to be charitable institutions (!), was to make unemployment so unbelievably hellish that everybody would, theoretically, give up their lives of sin and idleness and go become moral and hardworking citizens
Yes! That! Seriously, it is boggling! The whole concept of the "deserving poor," too. You had to be the RIGHT kind of poor person to get any help.
Like poetry XD
My entire experience in school was like that XD Why yes, I am getting a degree studying stuff people wrote hundreds of years ago! Because... I loves it. That's all, really ^^;;
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*cracks up* And there's remarkably little of that, even! It really is surprising. I feel like sometimes Watson (or ACD, whichever you prefer) writes things in a certain way sometimes to be like "Oh yeah, women! I forgot! I notice women! See how I notice women?"
the whole point of the workhouses, which were supposed to be charitable institutions (!), was to make unemployment so unbelievably hellish that everybody would, theoretically, give up their lives of sin and idleness and go become moral and hardworking citizens
Yes! That! Seriously, it is boggling! The whole concept of the "deserving poor," too. You had to be the RIGHT kind of poor person to get any help.
Like poetry XD
My entire experience in school was like that XD Why yes, I am getting a degree studying stuff people wrote hundreds of years ago! Because... I loves it. That's all, really ^^;;