The Science Of Deduction Is Contagious

I am currently re-reading the stories that I have read before and will only be posting about one book at a time. I'm sorry I don't post as regularly as before, real life does not let me have a lot of time to read and go to Tumblr. I'll be queuing up every Sunday, 2 posts per day and hope that it'll last for quite a while. You can also suggest some books to me, if you want! Medyo mabait po ako so it's ok to message me if you want to talk!

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Happy New Year!!

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Merry Christmas!!!

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De nier ce qui est, et d'expliquer ce qui n'est pas.

To deny what is and to explain what is not.

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They have fallen into the gross but common error of confounding the unusual with the abstruse. But it is by these deviations from the plane of the ordinary, that reason feels its way, if at all, in its search for the true.

C. Auguste Dupin (Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue)

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Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

C. Auguste Dupin (Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue)

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He impaired his vision by holding the object too close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, but in so doing he, necessarily, lost sight of the matter as a whole.

C. Auguste Dupin (Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue)

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We were strolling one night down a long dirty street in the vicinity of the Palais Royal. Being both, apparently, occupied with thought, neither of us had spoken a syllable for fifteen minutes at least. All at once Dupin broke forth with these words:

"He is a very little fellow, that's true, and would do better for the Théâtre des Variétés."

"There can be no doubt of that," I replied unwittingly, and not at first observing (so much had I been absorbed in reflection) the extraordinary manner in which the speaker had chimed in with my meditations. In an instant afterward I recollected myself, and my astonishment was profound.

"Dupin," said I, gravely, "this is beyond my comprehension. I do not hesitate to say that I am amazed, and can scarcely credit my senses.

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We sallied forth into the streets arm in arm, continuing the topics of the day, or roaming far and wide until a late hour, seeking, amid the wild lights and shadows of the populous city, that infinity of mental excitement which quiet observation can afford.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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The analytical power should not be confounded with ample ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural. His results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air of intuition.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Apologies for the lack of new posts! I'll be queuing up na!

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When a man does one queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place