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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    "What manner of experiment?"

    "A game" I gathered up the cards and began to shuffle them, my long fingers executing the operation with the dexterity of one who hath passed too many sleepless nights "An American variation I learnt in a club in St. James's. Five cards. But with additional rules"

    "Rules?"

    "With each hand lost, the defeated player removes an article of clothing"

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    24 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    “The curtains were the beginning of it all. Not murder, not blackmail — curtains. And from that moment onward, I found myself reduced to a state of domestic catastrophe and forced abstinence of the most intolerable kind”

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    24 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    Two men get into a hansom cab. They're not holding hands. Or are they?

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    24 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 7

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    "Is it? Then refute me"

    His hand alighted. Light. Warm

    The silence that ensued was of the species that outweighs speech. I uttered no syllable. Nor did he. Yet his hand abode upon my shoulder, and his thumb, by degrees, commenced tracing circles over the scar

    "Sherlock" I breathed

    "Cease" His voice emerged unsteady. "If you parted your lips to gainsay me, close them. That which I have said will not sustain contradiction"

    "You" I murmured "are the most intolerable man I have ever encountered"

    "Prove it" His brow met mine. "Prove that I am intolerable. Or prove the reverse"

    And I proved it

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    23 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 8

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    A stand up legend and a rising star are in Edinburgh for the festival.

    Their managers meet in a pub.

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    08 Jun 2026