"You will find the tobacco in the Persian slipper."
Reading a bit of Sherlock Holmes in preparation for this week's @TheRestHistory, & finding that I am loving it as much as ever.
Reading a bit of Sherlock Holmes in preparation for this week's @TheRestHistory, & finding that I am loving it as much as ever.
"The whole story concerning the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant..."
"Buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature."
That is so what my lockdown was like.
That is so what my lockdown was like.
Massively tempted to start calling my friends by their surnames...
"Often it was only the smallest trace, Watson, the faintest indication, & yet it was enough to tell me that the great malignant brain was there, as the gentlest tremors of the edges of the web remind one of the foul spider which lurks in the centre."
Quite tempted to become a criminal mastermind as well...
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