It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: inspirational blessings sherlock-holmes goodness hope flowers arthur-conan-doyle
True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.
Joe RiggsTags: sherlock-holmes deduction body-language nonverbal mentalism reading-people sherlock-holmes-deduction
I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
Anthony HorowitzTags: sherlock-holmes confidence punishment sarcasm crime reputation hanging misunderstandings superiority
A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.
Graham MooreTags: sherlock-holmes loneliness sherlockian
There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery
Graham MooreTags: sherlock-holmes discovery sherlockian
Gray fall light came through the nine square glass panes. On days like this, the strips of white wood that separated the glass seemed brighter to the eye than did the window light.
Graham MooreTags: sherlock-holmes light sherlockian
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.
Graham MooreTags: writing sherlock-holmes literature sherlockian
Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he needs a ten-stone ankle weight. The audience, Arthur. The audience needs Watson as an intermediary, so that Holmes's thoughts might be forever kept just out of reach. If you told stories from Holmes's perspective, everyone would know what the bleeding genius was thinking the whole time. They'd have the culprit fingered on page one.
Graham MooreTags: writing sherlock-holmes literature watson
Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know perfectly well, on a conscious level, that these characters “do not exist,” or in any case do not exist in the same way as do the inhabitants of the real world. But things manifest in an entirely different way on the unconscious level, which is interested not in the ontological differences between worlds but in the effect they produce on the psyche.
Every psychoanalyst knows how deeply a subject can be influenced, and even shaped, sometimes to the point of tragedy, by a fictional character and the sense of identification it gives rise to. This remark must first of all be understood as a reminder that we ourselves are usually fictional characters for other people […]
Tags: reading sherlock-holmes characters fiction psychology detective-criticism
If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish
Mark FrostTags: inspirational truth sherlock-holmes mystery spy
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