Wanderer

[rabidsamfan]

There was a certain pleasure in being forced to abdicate, to follow at random the wide and narrow paths of a fascinating world. But as Sherlock Holmes strode the ancient camel paths of the Silk Road, he knew that his respite was temporary. Too soon he reached the ancient city of Bactria (Balkh, the Afghans called it, since their conquest not half a century gone). There, in the shadows of an empire crumbling into dust, where Zarathustra had once sought the balance between truth and lies, he felt the pull of distant fog-bound streets and a friend to walk beside.

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[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

I really like this one a lot, it feels like a crossover with my own interests :-) (And, because this unaccustomed heat is doing strange things to my brain, I am now unable to shake the image of a Michael Wood documentary "In the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes"...)