If in one
hundred years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes, then I
will have considered my life a failure.
-Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
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Watson
‘ejaculates’ twice as often as Sherlock Holmes in Conan Doyle’s stories. There
are 23 ejaculations in total, with 11 belonging to Watson. On one occasion,
Holmes refers to Watson’s ‘ejaculations of wonder’ being invaluable; on
another, Watson ejaculates ‘from his very heart’ in the direction of his
fiancée. Holmes is only responsible for six ejaculations, although it is not
clear which of the two men ejaculate in the passage below:
So he sat
as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to
wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was
still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of
a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen
upon the previous night.
The Man
with the Twisted Lip, 1891
A chap
called Phelps ejaculated three times during the story of The Naval Treaty. The
only other ejaculator is Mrs St Clair’s husband, who ejaculates at her from a
second-floor window.
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