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“A man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose”
This week’s quotation is provided by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novella, A Study in Scarlet (1887). In chapter 2, the world’s most famous detective warns Dr. Watson of the dangers of filling one’s brain-attic with too much lumber … “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to…
Happy birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!
Birthday congratulations are in order to the creator of Sherlock Holmes, on his 157th birthday! In honour of the occasion, why not follow Watson’s example and while away some free time (while waiting to be called into action) with a good mystery? (Take your boots off before you sit on the couch, though…)
The Sea of Books 