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If we want to understand this frame of mind , we must go back to our own childhood , to a time when we still felt able to make things out of bricks or sand , when we turned a broomstick into a magic wand , and a few stones into an ...
If we want to understand this frame of mind , we must go back to our own childhood , to a time when we still felt able to make things out of bricks or sand , when we turned a broomstick into a magic wand , and a few stones into an ...
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But not the least of the pleasures of indulging in Sherlockian research is to be able to shoot down other people's conclusions . In the present case an American scholar was able to do just this . He said that it was an unlikely ...
But not the least of the pleasures of indulging in Sherlockian research is to be able to shoot down other people's conclusions . In the present case an American scholar was able to do just this . He said that it was an unlikely ...
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The majority of his sources are British , for ( as he admits ) Indian documentation is extremely scanty , and he suffered from the handicap of not being able to read Urdu and Hindi : researching through an interpreter is not very ...
The majority of his sources are British , for ( as he admits ) Indian documentation is extremely scanty , and he suffered from the handicap of not being able to read Urdu and Hindi : researching through an interpreter is not very ...
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