...realized that the initial experiment didn't happen that long ago (sometime in the nineteenth century?).
Yes, around the 1880s, I have notes for exactly when tucked away somewhere. I had originally been thinking 1400s (when Bart's hospital became independent of the priory), and then the mid-1700s when it was expanded and then I became fond of the idea of the dates being tied into the period of the original SH stories with Sherlock's grandfather being born around the time Bart's became a teaching hospital. That would also make it recent enough that the originals, or some of them, could still be alive with only a fairly modest change to their longevity which would make their lifetimes about double the average or 50% longer than the current upper limit.
Now the myth of Danaë is a very interesting and tempting idea, an ancient "record" of the first experiment or one of the first. I've been debating whether it should be a unique instance that affected a few people (four) and thus their progeny, or whether it had happened occasionally across history and the difference is that these people were scientists (mainly) and kept some records.
In the tricky passage, if I added "had", as in "he had tried to be quiet..." Would that help?
Sherlock keeps bracing for the final blow, eh?
Despite almost being killed very painfully, Sherlock got off fairly easily at the reunion. He fears it's a crisis only deferred. Do you feel this makes emotional sense?
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Yes, around the 1880s, I have notes for exactly when tucked away somewhere. I had originally been thinking 1400s (when Bart's hospital became independent of the priory), and then the mid-1700s when it was expanded and then I became fond of the idea of the dates being tied into the period of the original SH stories with Sherlock's grandfather being born around the time Bart's became a teaching hospital. That would also make it recent enough that the originals, or some of them, could still be alive with only a fairly modest change to their longevity which would make their lifetimes about double the average or 50% longer than the current upper limit.
Now the myth of Danaë is a very interesting and tempting idea, an ancient "record" of the first experiment or one of the first. I've been debating whether it should be a unique instance that affected a few people (four) and thus their progeny, or whether it had happened occasionally across history and the difference is that these people were scientists (mainly) and kept some records.
In the tricky passage, if I added "had", as in "he had tried to be quiet..." Would that help?
Sherlock keeps bracing for the final blow, eh?
Despite almost being killed very painfully, Sherlock got off fairly easily at the reunion. He fears it's a crisis only deferred. Do you feel this makes emotional sense?