Mreen

Mreen asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I've loved your books since I discovered a ragged copy of "Brothers In Arms" in a used book store. Having read the latest, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, and enjoyed it, I found I couldn't place a "literary reference" you meant as an injoke for your readers -"the dog who sleeps alone at night". What is the source?

Lois McMaster Bujold "The dog who did nothing in the night time" is (a bit garbled by by the time it gets to Fyodor and Jole) a famous quote from the Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze". To quote from memory, so possibly inexact:

SH: I would draw your attention, Watson, to the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.

JW: But the dog did nothing in the nighttime!

SH: That was the curious incident.

Ta, L.

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