« My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.” »
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
March 2022
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