Natten till min 26:e födelsedag drömde jag att jag blev far till en synnerligen välskapt son. I drömmen blev jag så lycklig att jag grät och den lille pojken låg i min famn och sög tillgivet på min tumme.
Drömmen om faderskap i kombination med avskedet till den första hälften av tjugoårsåldern: jag ser detta som ett järtecken (tja, det är ju i alla fall kul att leta mönster). Inom två år har jag barn - minns var ni läste det först!
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SvaraRaderaThe image of London that emerges in Sherlock Holmes's stories is of bustling economic prosperity at the center of a giant colonial empire. As for Holmes's sooty, crowded London, we get a glimpse of it in illustrations of "The Resident Patient" and in "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" (very atmospheric). The empire giveth and it taketh away, though: colonialism brings men like John Turner vast amounts of cash, but it also introduces political (see "The Five Orange Pips") and personal (see "The Speckled Band") instability. The British Empire brings floods of new things to London – jewels such as the Blue Carbuncle or the 39 beryls of the Beryl Coronet – but also then provides yet more opportunity for thieves like John Clay ("The Red-Headed League") and Sir Richard Burnwell ("The Beryl Coronet").
SvaraRaderaAs modes of transportation improve connections between different places, you also come to understand the huge criminal and moral threat of being able to disappear at will ("A Case of Identity," "The Noble Bachelor," and even perhaps "A Scandal in Bohemia"). Just as London is being enriched by its exploitation of other nations, it's also getting drained by poverty and begging (think of the opium dens of "The Man With the Twisted Lip").
In other words, late-nineteenth-century London is a cosmopolitan space – a huge city bringing together new populations, new commercial goods, and new forms of transportation into one giant hodgepodge of activity. Without trains to bring him to his cases, without objects like the Blue Carbuncle, and without groups of strangers to visit in disguise, where would Holmes be? He needs a city like London to be a detective at all. Holmes's setting and his job are part and parcel of the same thing: a sign both of London's growing wealth and its growing insecurity.