On Dec 9, 2:14 pm, chazwin <chazwy...@yahoo.com> wrote: Interesting!!! I would never have pegged Doyle as a mystic. It seems to show that people can compartmentalise themselves. Earlier this year I fished around for a quick bedtime read. I lighted upon "The Passion of the Western Mind, by Richard Tarnas. Not knowing the author I thought it might be an interesting read through the...

Interesting!!! I would never have pegged Doyle as a mystic. It seems to show that people can compartmentalise themselves. Earlier this year I fished around for a quick bedtime read. I lighted upon "The Passion of the Western Mind, by Richard Tarnas. Not knowing the author I thought it might be an interesting read through the history of philosphy from Plato to the present. It all went well, ...

... many people make the mistake of supposing that Doyle and Holmes were much alike intellectually--coldly logical--and assume that Doyle had some affinity or identification with Holmes. But ... of his. From what I have heard, Doyle was probably more like "everyman" Watson--he was,.... Lot's of humor--for a historical novel. Doyle, like H.G.Wells, also wrote quite a ...