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Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (who...

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Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studi...

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Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange,...

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It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flower...

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Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan]...

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He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagi...

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