Sherlock Holmes

I thought I would share this quote to our discussion about Sherlock Holmes from last night:

"Sherlock Holmes is, said Sherlockian scholar Edgar W. Smith, 'the personification of something in us that we have lost, or never had. For it is not Sherlock Holmes who sits in Baker Street, comfortable, competent and self-assured; it is ourselves who are there, full of a tremendous capacity for wisdom, complacent in the presence of our humble Watson, conscious of a warm well-being and a timeless, imperishable content. The easy chair in the room is drawn up to the hearthstone of our very hearts. [...] And the time and place and all the great events are near and dear to us not because our memories call them forth in pure nostalgia, but because they are a part of us today.
" 'That is the Sherlock Holmes we love--the Holmes implicit and eternal in ourselves."
--The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury