Somewhere on my shelves there is a book of short stories whose names I have forgotten. Or maybe it was on someone else's shelves entirely; I'm fairly certain it was in a different book.
At any rate, in one of these stories (or perhaps the other stories), a man acquires and opens a beautiful and mysterious antique lead sealed bottle. It turns out to contain a jinn who has spent enough time trapped there to become phenomenally irked. As retribution against humanity (the specific human who did this to him is long gone, of course), he traps the human in the bottle to take his place.
So presumably the bottle contains a somewhat miffed human, or the remains of one. Now, Sherlock does like human remains, or at least interesting human remains. But to have them come tumbling out of a bottle that's demonstrably too small to contain them would be somewhat unnerving even to him. And I have in the back of my mind the idea (forgive me, it's been a while) that it may be necessary for something to be in that bottle.
I have every confidence in your ability to make things entertaining.
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Date: 2012-07-06 11:26 pm (UTC)At any rate, in one of these stories (or perhaps the other stories), a man acquires and opens a beautiful and mysterious antique lead sealed bottle. It turns out to contain a jinn who has spent enough time trapped there to become phenomenally irked. As retribution against humanity (the specific human who did this to him is long gone, of course), he traps the human in the bottle to take his place.
So presumably the bottle contains a somewhat miffed human, or the remains of one. Now, Sherlock does like human remains, or at least interesting human remains. But to have them come tumbling out of a bottle that's demonstrably too small to contain them would be somewhat unnerving even to him. And I have in the back of my mind the idea (forgive me, it's been a while) that it may be necessary for something to be in that bottle.
I have every confidence in your ability to make things entertaining.