Sherrielock Holmes wearing a white dress, white hat, white silk stockings and white spiked stiletto high-heeled shoes about to board and ride a bicycle on the cobblestone streets of London in October of 1939.
The Phoney War was the name given to the period between September 3rd 1939 (the date Britain and France declared war on Germany following the September 1st 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland) and May 10th 1940 when France and the Low Countries (Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg) were attacked by Germany.
Because other than a brief French military offensive in Germany's Saar district in September 1939 from which the French quickly withdrew, there was no real actual warfare going on between the Anglo-French Alliance and Germany during the autumn, winter and early spring of 1939-40.
It was mainly economic warfare going on plus a naval blockade.
The only fighting going on during that time period was between the "peace loving peoples of the Soviet Union" (to quote Soviet Stalinist propaganda) and the nation of Finland whom peace-loving Josef Stalin had attacked in November of 1939.
The Winter War (as the First Soviet-Finnish War was called) that began on November 30th 1939 ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty on March 13th 1940.
And now to the subject of the painting above.
And also below.
The date was October 6th 1939.
London England.
It was into the first week of the second month of the Phoney War.
And Sherrielock Holmes (the lesser known twin sister of world famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes) was wearing white.
Which was unusual for Sherrielock Holmes.
Why was it unusual for Sherrielock Holmes?
Because usually she wore black.
And why did she wear black?
Because she was a dominatrix by profession.
Which was why her twin brother Sherlock Holmes (and his biographer Dr. Watson and Dr. Watson's fellow medical colleague and fellow writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) tried to keep Sherrielock as little known as possible.
Most of her clients were turned on by black leather skirts, black silk nylons and black (or red) spiked stiletto high heels.
But today she was wearing white.
She had been asked by friends to teach Sunday School at a Church in London and so she was off to an official job interview with the parish vicar for the position.
So today she was wearing white.
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Thursday October 6th
2022
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