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The Character We Won’t Forget: Sherlock Holmes and Watson - 25 years of friendship! · Off the Page

Bruce Rule: The book takes place in 1905, which means that they've been best friends for 25 years. That's a long time to be best friends. That's K. R. Raye: It's a long time. Bruce Rule: a long time. So, you know, if you read the the early Conan Doyle short stories, you have Watson always surprised by Sherlock my god, how could you possibly have figured that out? By the time this happens, he's like Yeah, okay, you're doing the mind reading trick again. Yeah, okay, stop that, you know. You know, please stop me you know. So K. R. Raye: It is that language that you have, that shorthand language you have after twenty five years of being together and best friends. Bruce Rule: Right, yeah, you know, and and I and I approached it, I approached the book that way. I said, you know, it's being narrated by Watson. He's in In the Conan Doyle canon, he's probably fifty-one, fifty-two years old at this point. Sherlock Holmes is fifty years old or approximately at this point. These are not kids who are just starting to know each other. These are settled adult males who are comfortable with each other after twenty-five years.