¡Watson!

{Upside-down exclamation marks.  They make exclamations much more exclamatory.}


I had a wonderfully geeky, Sherlock Holmes moment today.  In music class, we're in the Romantic era; and we just learned about the composer Berlioz, who wrote this famous symphony.  In a nutshell, it's about an angsty guy who has a crush on a girl, poisons himself with opium, but lives to dream about dancing, decapitation, and witches.  {Macabre much?  Methinks the Romantics could've used some Owl City...}

Anyhow, the girl's musical motif (theme) is called the idée fixe, and one of the lecture points was that idée fixe was a medical term.  The professor didn't explain it; but immediately, some "Sherlockian alarm" went off in my head; and I got super excited because I've watched Watson's explanation of idée fixe, some dozen times at least (within the full-length episode, lol).  I didn't jump up, waving my hand in the air, but I sure felt like it.  Yet another instance of how Sherlock Holmes and friends can aid you in the Real World!  ;)