A rare film interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first explaining the origins of Sherlock Holmes, which he describes as a "monstrous growth" that came out of his imagination and took on a life of its own outside of his willingness to write about the character anymore. Then, without a missed beat, he segues his account of creating the greatest deductive hero in the history of fiction with inane blithering about his belief in psychic phenomena. Like Cynical-C, I have always had a hard time rectifying in my own mind his creation of the greatest deductive thinker in fiction with his passionate belief in amateurish pseudo-scientific claptrap. How could the man who created Sherlock Holmes be convinced that cardboard cut-out fairies were real?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Sherlock Holmes and Psychic Phenomena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0d9ufVyn_4 A rare film interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first explaining the origins of Sherlock Holmes, which he describes as a “monstrous growth” that came out of his imagination and took on a life of its own outside of his willingness to write about the character anymore. Then, without a missed beat, he segues […]
