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mightymads ([personal profile] mightymads) wrote in [community profile] victorian221b2020-01-06 05:02 pm
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For Holmes's birthday

A recipe of a Holmes story from Arthur Conan Doyle:
People have often asked me whether I knew the end of a Holmes story before I started it. Of course I do. One could not possibly steer a course if one did not know one's destination. The first thing is to get your idea. Having got that key idea one's next task is to conceal it and lay emphasis upon everything which can make for a different explanation. Holmes, however, can see all the fallacies of the alternatives, and arrives more or less dramatically at the true solution by steps which he can describe and justify.
Memories and Adventures (1924)
tei: Rabbit from the Garden of Earthly Delights (Default)

[personal profile] tei 2020-01-06 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
This seems like a very odd thing to ask him 😂 Did people really think the endings were a surprise to him??
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (HWredicon)

[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi 2020-01-06 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday! Love the graphic! So fun!