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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
This reminds me of a conversation between Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson (I am paraphrasing from memory) in which Watson is appalled at Holmes' ignorance of seemingly basic facts - while knowing exactly how many steps were in the staircase at Baker Street, types of cigar ash, etc. Holmes compared the human brain to a lumber room (attic) and explained there was only a finite amount of space to store knowledge - so he chose to be very selective as to what he remembered/memorized/learned.
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That conversation appeared in the very first Sherlock Holmes novel (
A Study in Scarlet), and may go a long way in helping explain why it was so easy for Arthur Conan Doyle to believe in fairies and be so easily deceived by photos such as these:
