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“It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene.
[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]”
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[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]”
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“Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.”
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“You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.”
― The Beekeeper's Apprentice
― The Beekeeper's Apprentice
“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
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O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
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“Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?”
― Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World
― Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World
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