Ah, parallels, my deep and abiding love. I'm glad you enjoyed this piece, though I must say that Baring-Gould is actually the first to have posited that Moriarty was Holmes' mathematics tutor, both in his annotated edition of the canon and in his biography of Holmes, Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, which is where I first encountered the idea.
If you are interested at all in this theme I have another story that deals with it to some degree, called Ellipticals (http://www.livejournal.com/users/prof_pangaea/71015.html).
Anywho, with this story the aspect that interested me the most was the comparison of Holmes and Donleavy, who were both products of Moriarty's tutelage and who had both in turn been mentors to Russell, how they had been affected by Moriarty and how that had affected others... etc.
And of course, many thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad that you enjoyed the piece.
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Date: 2006-01-07 09:11 pm (UTC)If you are interested at all in this theme I have another story that deals with it to some degree, called Ellipticals (http://www.livejournal.com/users/prof_pangaea/71015.html).
Anywho, with this story the aspect that interested me the most was the comparison of Holmes and Donleavy, who were both products of Moriarty's tutelage and who had both in turn been mentors to Russell, how they had been affected by Moriarty and how that had affected others... etc.
And of course, many thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad that you enjoyed the piece.