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Holmes was never bored. Every smudge told volumes. Innumerable books were there for the reading. And when "bored" nonetheless he dove inside his own mind and ex
by ctdonath 15y ago
Holmes was never bored. Every smudge told volumes. Innumerable books were there for the reading. And when "bored" nonetheless he dove inside his own mind and explored its behavior under various pharmacological abuses. (Surely you don't expect his hypothetical "trips" were akin to a common doper's?)
BTW: the article is just 487 words long. You spent more time informing us that you didn't read it than you would have spent doing so. ...and I'm so easily not bored I found it interesting to find the word count.
- gte910h 15y agoHomes was constantly doing lots of stimulants as well as other drugs Saying he was never bored is a bit of a stretch for non drug abusers
- sukuriant 15y agoI don't use any illegal drugs, but that sort of experimation looks to me like exactly that: experimentation. And, in the context of the article, he looked at the universe in all its interesting attributes and chose "I wanna try this!" something related to, and inside the universe. As defined by the article, that's not boredom.
- gte910h 15y agoI am not saying "Because he had drugs as an option, he wasn't bored". I'm saying "He was constantly amped up on something, so he wasn't bored".