Hem, hem....well, I wanted to talk about something.....
Hrm...*clears throat*....so, I shall try and write something and see whether it gets any reactions......
So. I have always been wondering about something; I guess it`s been discussed more than often, but still. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; I think we all agree he must have been quite a clever fellow? I mean, writing all the smart Holmes-stories, being a great doctor and man of science himself and therefore appearing to be all for logical reasoning? Now what DOES puzzle me is his belief in Spiritualism - seriously: does that figure? The man who made the "science of deduction" popular in all the world with his crime fiction believed in nonsense like Spiritualist mediums or the all too obviously faked Cottingley Fairies!! I must say, I do not understand that. Then did rationality - or even only good sane common sense not mean anything to him at all?! That just makes no sense. Was the official information just wrong for some reason and he actually did not believe in it at all? Or did he really become that gaga? Of course the whole thing could also be ascribed to senility. I`m not sure now what is the truth behind that. What do you think?