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An Interview with Sherlock Holmes, Harry Houdini and
Doctor John Watson. Part Two.
As I explained yesterday, I have decided to put the
interview into a different format, as the other one seemed a bit confusing,
even to me, and as the purpose of this site is to continue the excitment of the
Baker Street Universe, it's important to me that we not lose the vigor and
vitality of the heroes of that universe.
So today I present Part Two again, but expanded and
hopefully a lot easier and fun to read.
Our interview was interrupted by my cell phone running too
low on power. Now I have repowered it and can continue with transcribing the
text of my very lively conversation with three of the world's greatest men:
Sherlock Holmes, Doctor John Watson and Harry Houdini.
Author and Biographer,
John Pirillo
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March 10th, 2010
3am
A location I am not at liberty to divulge
"Now that I've recharged my phone, I'd like to continue
where we left off."
"Please do proceed." Sherlock replies. "Oh,
and I'd like one of those chargers as well. I'm sure TEsla and Edison would
have fun playing with both devices."
"I'm sure they would." I replied. "So you
were going to mention Einstein.
"And Edison. Don't forget Edison. He and Tesla are very
good friends and Einstein works with both of them as a consultant and friend.
He's been very helpful to many of the inventions we've released to the public
in London, as well as in helping us solve some very peculiar and sometimes
quite dangerous circumstances." Watson pointed out.
"I agree." Harry added. "I remember the time
he saved my ass when I got caught in a time swirl created by the despicable
Hyde."
"Remarkable." I commented. "On our world he's
been gone for many, many years. I'm sure had he lived longer much would have
been different here."
"Seems so anyway." Sherlock said cynically.
"Though a bit askew what our Einstein would prefer or h ave wanted to be
part of. I still don't understand you people are so fascinated with killing
each other. So many guns. In our England guns are only the property of the
Constables, and they only use them as a last resort."
"That's even more remarkable." I said
enthusiastically. "There are many citizens here who protest the use of
guns, but a very well monied lobby of individuals have kept government from
preventing the negligent use of guns."
Watson snorted. "More than likely paid off by those
indviduals, I should think."
"Watson! That's rather mean of you!"
Watson blushed. "It's true, isn't it." He said,
looking at my face.
I couldn't lie to him. "I wish it were not. The America
of this world has lost a lot of its freedom to the wealthy."
"It was once so in our Victorian England." Harry
admited, but since the rule of Queen Mary of Scots, God bless her soul, the
rich have become less ostentatious..."
"And more likely to share their abundance with the
lesser endowed." Sherlock added.
"That's great!" I said. "But how does one
person manage what so many cannot?"
"She is honest."
I sat there in a stunned silence for a time, for on our
world, honesty seems to be for sale so much of the time.
"Well, no matter." I finally said, after a long
pause. "Shall we continue?"
"Indeed." Watson agreed. "Einstein believes,
based on calculations he made, and with which Edison and eventually Tesla as well
helped in fleshing out, that our world...dimension if you will...not your
world, of course.
"Of course."
"That our worlds overlap each other. "
At that point he took out three bracelets that he kept in
his bag for certain occasions, which I will explain at a later date.
"It's like this." He explained.
He laid down first one bracelet, shaped it into a rough
circle, then proceeded to overlap two more bracelets, like you shall see in the
illustration I have provided below. I would have included the photo I took, but
didn't feel it made much of a difference in the presentation of the idea. If
any of you are later on interested in seeing the original photo, I shall be
most happy to provide such.
Doctor Watson finished the design and then said, "Let's
assume the middle circle is our Victorian England, London, where Mary Queen of
Scots rules. Now the upper circle is your own world and dimension. The lower
one is another one, which is, as yet unexplored and unnamed, but for clarity's
sake, we will call Earth three...ours being one, yours being two.
I frowned. "That concept is quite old in our
literature, but I hardly ever thought it a reality, let alone a possibility,
though some of our scientists like Stephen Hawking believe in multiple
dimensions...I'm just not certain their concept inlcludes alternate realities
and duplicates of ourselves."
I touched the upper bracelet and looked at Watson. "How
do we know that your world is the one in the middle?
Sherlock laughed. "My dear, Mister Pirillo, poor Watson
here is already far out of his own intellectual boundaries, do not confuse him
further with such details."
Watson scowled at Sherlock. "I'll have you know that I
spent an entire week with her majesty, Tesla and Einstein going over these
principles."
Sherlock frowned. "You never told me about that?"
Vexing. "You'd be suprised how much I have never told
you."
Surprised at the complexity of their relationship, which I
was then seeing was quite a bit more vigorous than portrayed in literature, by
me or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I proceeded to intervene as a good host should.
"I'm sure the both of you will have more than enough
time to iron all of this out. What with all the adventures you administer, and
the services to the public, I don't see how the two of you have any time
whatsover to communicate at all sometimes."
Watson nodded. "True. By Jove, sometimes I feel like a
top spinning on the pavement, twirled this way and that."
Sherlock nodded. "It can be a it much at times."
Harry grinned, and took another scone to eat. "These
are really good. How are they made?"
"Organic ingredients."
He frowned. "What's organice?"
"Food without toxic chemicals."
He almost choked on his bite. "You serve toxic food to
each other here?"
I didn't reply. I didn't have to. The look in my eyes told
him everything.
He took his hat off and set it beside him. "You have my sincere apologies. I didn't
realize your people were so afflicted."
Wanting to divert back to the interview again, I proceeded.
"
"Very kind of you to say. But please, go on, you were
saying...?"
Sherlock steeples his fingers together in a classic pose,
squints at them a moment, then gazes into my face with that hawk like gaze.
"Mind if I continue, Watson?"
"Not at all, Holmes. Please do. While you do so, I
shall take advantage of these wonderful
scones to help them from going stale."
I smiled the same time as Sherlock, who then said. "For
all intents and purposes each world is number one to its inhabitants, and so to
arbitrarily call one the First would be a great injustice to those peoples who
inhabit the worlds."
"Jolly well spoken, Holmes."
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| Portrait of Harry Houdini |
Watson wiped his mouth with one of the napkins I had
provided, took a large gulp of his coffee, then leaned forward and tapped the
overlapping bracelets. "So..."
I gave him a smile and nodded for him to proceed. Sherlock,
meanwhile, took out a small notebook and began scribblng furiously in it.
Something which I am not now allowed to
divulge, but shall certainly do so once they have lifted their restrictions
upon what I can or can not reveal to my dear audience.
"So, John...as you can see from the diagram, one can
easily slip from one worldly dimension to the next as there are numerous points
of contact, much like Fairie overlaps our own world, and once did yours as well until Merlin separated the realms.
"You knew Merlin?"
Harry grinned like a Cheshire Cat. "Not knew. Know. He
is quite alive and well, thank you. Besides, who do you think taught me all I
know...or a lot of it?
Both Holmes and Watson laugh at that attempt at humility,
which has failed miserably.
"Then am I to understand that I can go to your world as
well as you to mine?
Sherlock nodded. "Without a doubt."
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| Watson listening to the conversation. |
Watson crossed his arms then and gave Sherlock's words a
minute of thought, then said, "Though I would rather think you might want
to go when you have trustworthy companions as there's no exact science in your
world yet to make sure you land in a perfectly safe environment. Our world and
many of the others have very hostile spots on them, wherein you might have your
life stricken from you in a moment."
I shivered in terror for a moment at that thought, for I
have a very large imagination and I could imagine all kinds of horrors that
might take my life.
"Really, Mister
Pirillo, you mustn't let your imagination take over your common sense. In our
many cases we find more have died from an overactive imagination than from
actual physical contact with a mortal danger from our world or another.
"Indeed." Sherlock agreed.
"Although the occasional zombie or dragon has been the
death of a few citizens now and then. "
Harry added.
Everyone laughed.
At this point I will end my interview with Sherlock
Holmes, Doctor Watson and Harry Houdini.
If time allows, which hopefully it will, I will return later
this day with Part Three of the Interview with Sherlock Holmes, Doctor John
Watson and Harry Houdini.
Until then I trust everyone is starting to realize just how remarkable these three men are, as well as talented and dedicated to their work.
Sincerely,
John Pirillo,
Author
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