236: Broken: Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Gen
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100wordsTitle: Broken
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Notes: Watson's had enough.
“You use me and you do not trust me, Holmes! Either you cannot see it, or you can see it and you are unable to change. Regardless, this is broken!”
The following week, in my rooms on Queen Anne Street, I received a parcel which contained a bowl of obvious eastern origin with irregular veins of gold running through pale porcelain. The note read:
kitsungi
the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered precious metals, philosophically treating breakage and repair as part of an object’s beauty not something to disguise
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Notes: Watson's had enough.
“You use me and you do not trust me, Holmes! Either you cannot see it, or you can see it and you are unable to change. Regardless, this is broken!”
The following week, in my rooms on Queen Anne Street, I received a parcel which contained a bowl of obvious eastern origin with irregular veins of gold running through pale porcelain. The note read:
kitsungi
the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered precious metals, philosophically treating breakage and repair as part of an object’s beauty not something to disguise
