https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/sherlock-holmes-and-the-history-of-information
If Sherlock Holmes had an excerpting and commonplacing practice, did Arthur Conan Doyle?
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- Jun 2022
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As SherlockHolmes says to Watson on a famous occasion: "If page 534 findsus only in Chapter Two, the length of the first one must have beenreally intolerable."
Interesting to see Barzun quote Arthur Conan Doyle here. Not surprising given his penchant for mystery novels however.
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