14 December 2011

Sherlock Holmes: Fierce Energy

'My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness [sic] of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.'

"A Scandal in Bohemia", Arthur Conan Doyle (1891)
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6 comments:

  1. La Sombra Sofisticada14 December, 2011 05:30

    Ah, Holmes!

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  2. White Horse14 December, 2011 06:46

    Drowsy on cocaine?

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  3. Laguna Beach Fogey14 December, 2011 07:43

    WH ~ Hence the [sic]. ;-)

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  4. DEK14 December, 2011 15:41

    It's my impression that Holmes' drug use was a detail of character that Doyle eventually decided not to be as useful as he thought in the beginning. I do not recall it as being important to the plot of any of the stories.

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  5. NJS15 December, 2011 06:10

    It is odd - as Conan Doyle was a medical doctor.

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  6. v. Braun.16 December, 2011 16:00

    I like to take cocaine so that I can drink more...

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