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For all the Sherlock Holmes lovers,

especially you, Brian,

thanks for the support this week.

Tonight, I will be reading

A Case of Identity.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

My dear fellow, said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings of Baker Street.

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 peep in

at the strange 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 utre

results. It would make all fiction

with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

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