Yes! Sherlock would interpret the fable just that way. I think that's a great - and pleasingly simple - way of setting up the elusive weirdness. And the cartoon mental image of them as the turtle and the scorpion, with the scorpion casting about for something else to sting, is darkly endearing.
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Date: 2012-10-17 07:34 am (UTC)