Dear Arthur Conan Doyle
Re: Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Three Students"
In this story, Mr. Doyle, you have Holmes investigating possible cheating on an exam. The subject beeing Ancient Greek. Holmes discovers that the student, who must have been a master at the language, had stolen into his professors office and tried to copy down the passages that would be on the test. These were passages of Thucydides, and he wanted to be able to prepare them before hand. Why then did he try to copy the entire text, using all possible contractions (a seperate issue, but still pretty bad), only to find himself interrupted copying page two of three (necessitating a hasty, albeit unobserved departure), in such a rush that he breaks his pencil, not simply write down the passage numbers? or, if the passage numbers have been removed, simply write down the first sentence of each passage, and look it up later in a concordance? Saving himself a significant amount of time, since you reckon his copying speed at 15 minutes a page?
I guess what I'm saying is, if you're trying to create a know it all detective, don't write about things that you don't know about yourself.
In this story, Mr. Doyle, you have Holmes investigating possible cheating on an exam. The subject beeing Ancient Greek. Holmes discovers that the student, who must have been a master at the language, had stolen into his professors office and tried to copy down the passages that would be on the test. These were passages of Thucydides, and he wanted to be able to prepare them before hand. Why then did he try to copy the entire text, using all possible contractions (a seperate issue, but still pretty bad), only to find himself interrupted copying page two of three (necessitating a hasty, albeit unobserved departure), in such a rush that he breaks his pencil, not simply write down the passage numbers? or, if the passage numbers have been removed, simply write down the first sentence of each passage, and look it up later in a concordance? Saving himself a significant amount of time, since you reckon his copying speed at 15 minutes a page?
I guess what I'm saying is, if you're trying to create a know it all detective, don't write about things that you don't know about yourself.