Timeline for Did Sherlock Holmes have a character development arc across Arthur Conan Doyle's books?
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| Jul 12, 2017 at 13:50 | comment | added | b_jonas | @Randal'Thor The Five Orange Pips, and the quote is “I have been beaten four times – three times by men, and once by a woman.” | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 17:57 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @Torisuda (He's not ashamed to admit that Mycroft is above his own level.) There's a quote, in either "A Scandal in Bohemia" or "The Five Orange Pips" IIRC, which goes something like, "I am not infallible. In the course of my career I have been defeated by four men and one woman." | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 17:35 | comment | added | Torisuda | @muru I always took that more as Holmes not thinking women in general were as intellectually formidable as men. This certainly wouldn't have been an uncommon view at the time. He calls her The Woman because she's the single woman who is his equal (in his mind), whereas among men, Holmes holds at least Moriarty and his brother Mycroft at his own level. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 3:41 | comment | added | muru | He also respected Moriarty's intellect, but Moriarty wasn't The Man. Even if there wasn't anything romantic or affectionate, that he had a specific euphemism for her indicates she was something emotionally special for him. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 3:39 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @muru Irene Adler? I don't think that was really an exception to Holmes's adherence to pure logic. He respected her as a formidable opponent; there was never anything romantic or even affectionate in it. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 3:37 | comment | added | muru | And, of course, The Woman. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 3:28 | history | answered | Rand al'Thor♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |