Literature is simply lovely. No two things about it! Literature may be very substantive for very many reasons. One of the most important of these vindications is that literature peoples our wor(l)ds with unique personalities.
Sherlock Holmes is one such kindred soul for me. So ingrained is his rational, logical, factual mode in me that I am often saved from all sorts of impossible abysses, given my rather excessively senti-n-mental soul.
Yes, Sherlock shapes your vision. He shows you not only how to observe but also how to deduce the root cause, and thus how to be real, with feet firmly fixed on terra firma even when the mind may wander all the seven seas, and beyond or even when your head may be in the stars, or beyond.
Read his tales (stories as well as novels), and a baby detective is unmistakably born in your brain. That forever friend helps you unravel the motives of most all, whether you meet them in the pages of books or in the high n mightily dangerous lanes of real lived life.
As is always the case with literature, you cannot stop admiring the genius and his art that shaped and immortalised such unique characters. Yes, Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes as a way out of dire straits. True, as you read more and more, you may meet better n smarter avataars of the sleuth figure. Yet Sherlock remains Ho(l)me(s) to our investigative affinities, and forever. Happy Sherlock Holmes Day, Dear Reader, celebrated each year on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birth anniversary!
Pratima@ A unique aspect of the Sherlock Holmes persona that I cannot adore enough is the droll, dry, decent but deep sense of humour that pervades the Doyle depiction. Indeed, so wondrous was the creation that readers made Doyle bring him back to life time and again. Incidentally, 2026 marks a special something in the Sherlock saga. More about it when my translation gets published circa Diwali !
Quote of the day: "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable," says Sherlock to his dear friend, Dr.Watson, the namesake of a friend who helped Doyle during his difficult days, the dire straits that led to the makings of Holmes.
Word of the day: Deduce Deduce means to reach a logical conclusion by reasoning from known facts, evidence, or information.
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