Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle · first published 2010
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on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain North of Boston by Robert Frost Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (+ the other Sherlock Holmes') Candide by Voltaire (was reminded by other posting - this is great!)
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?” ↗All very good points, and if you ever want to read/listen to the books that defined the genre and formula, pick up A Study in Scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (or one of the numerous short stories that accompanied his works.) What I like about the short stories in particular on audible is the stories are quick and digestible and…
on “How James Patterson became the world’s best-selling author” ↗Get into books. No, not computer related books. Narrative. Sherlock Holmes' books are now under Public Domain. Get all of them, and try reading them in chronologcal in order. A Study in Scarlet The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Sign of Four The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes The Valley of Fear The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes His…
on “YouTube Addiction” ↗Relevant convo between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson (My choice of Italics highlights). Below excerpt from A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887. —— My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any…
on “To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget” ↗I'm not sure why this unattributed. The passage is from A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
on “What Americans Don't Know About Science ” ↗…small. If only 2% of women over age 16 as also under age 18, that statistic is not so shocking. I don't agree that this statistic alone demonstrates that "almost all women were married between 14-16." "A study in scarlet" is not historically accurate. IIRC, Conan Doyle said so himself.
on “The Secret Facebook War for Mormon Hearts and Minds” ↗In at least one story (A Study in Scarlet, perhaps, in Watson's pen-portrait of his then-new fellow lodger) there is also mention of Holmes occasionally finding solace from boredom in morphine, which as a derivative of the then-common opium might…
on “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution” ↗Poe is amazing: he basically invented detective novels with his character C. Auguste Dupin in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Conan Doyle credits this directly in the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet": Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. “No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin,” he observed. “Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That…
on “On Edgar Allan Poe” ↗"[Arthur Conan Doyle's] first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, A Study in Scarlet, was written in three weeks when he was 27 and was accepted for publication by Ward Lock & Co on 20 November 1886, which gave Doyle £25 (equivalent to £2,900 in 2019) in exchange for all rights to the…
on “My experience writing and selling a short story” ↗…Auguste Dupin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Auguste_Dupin) and another named "The Gold Bug". They were an inspiration to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and he mentions this in "A Study in Scarlet".
on “Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?” ↗A conversation between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle: > That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could…
on “I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT” ↗This is a very inapropos quote, because A Study In Scarlet was the first Holmes story, and Conan Doyle later retconned this because it turns out to be very important for a detective of Holmes' sort to be able to draw on seemingly-useless knowledge in order to…
on “I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT” ↗…of the Dancing Men" where he used pictures of dancing men for his cipher text. Note that Conan Doyle indirectly acknowledged Poe's influence (via his character Auguste Dupin) on Sherlock Holmes in "A Study in Scarlet". Poe wrote three stories starring his detective Auguste Dupin all of which are fantastic. They are "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter". They are…
on “The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)” ↗Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet.
on “Did You Hear We Got Osama?” ↗